Re: [AD] New possible driver and accelerated features?

[guilt <karthikkumar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me get one thing cleared:

1. LPDIRECTDRAW7 is the currently supported version of DDRAW. When I
looked @ the specs for the A5 GFX API, use of DD7 is an excellent
option. The most recent DD interfaces such as LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE8 are
available only for the XBox currently. And it is available in DX9.0b.
Just that it isn't used as much.

2. Using Direct3D is an excellent option... but the point is, if we
really need to have a platform-independant good solution, I recommend 
removing the 3D functionality out of Allegro, and moving it to a
separate 3D API, like AllegroGL... Who knows, there might be good
scope for "Allegro3D" available in the future, which unifies DX/GL/The
SW Rasterizer .... Not only does this simplify development work, it
becomes easier to maintain Allegro like DirectX is maintained.

-- 
V Karthik Kumar