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- Subject: RE: [AD] New possible driver and accelerated features?
- From: "Robert Ohannessian" <ROhannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:02:48 -0700
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- Thread-topic: [AD] New possible driver and accelerated features?
DX7 has DDraw. DX8 is the first version of DX that does not have DDraw.
Finishing the OGL driver in AllegroGL would be another option.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:59 PM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [AD] New possible driver and accelerated features?
>
> Ryan Norton wrote:
> > 7 would be the best, since 9 (and 8?) do not technically
> > have DirectDraw anymore. However, I'm not really sure what
> > would be gained by doing this, other than one or two misc.
> > accelerated functions like transparency...
>
> Which could be useful as the new API is developed. :) And I thought 7
> didn't have DirectDraw either? That's what I was going for, to use the
> latest sensible version (I don't know if MinGW has a DX9 SDK yet) so
we
> can get as much out of it as possible for Allegro's future
functionality.
>
> > I'll do it if there's something resembling a consensus :).
>
> Cool. :)
>
> - Kitty Cat
>
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