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In article <EsGw8H.3rJ@news.bug.co.jp>, "T. Colin Mack"
<colin@satelight.co.jp> wrote:

> >> >Something tells me Rhapsody is going to change a lot of developer
> thinking
> >> >when it becomes possible to write code once and easily recompile it for
> >> >almost any platform.
> >> 
> >> Ah, but that requires the PC owner to actually _have_ Rhapsody (or the
> >> multi-hued box under Windows) which isn't likely to take a large enough
> >> percentage of the market to convince game companies (IMHO).
> 
> >Developers do need to have Rhapsody (at least for now), but end users can
> >run "Yellow Box" applications on Windows 95/NT. 
> 
> While I think the yellow box will provide a good base for cross-platform
> development
> for "grown up" applications, I think game developers might want to focus
> their attenon 
> more on what they can get out of QuickTime 3 (assuming the licensing madness
> is 
> ever straightened out). Since game programming is very performance and
> graphics
> oriented, there's usually some really unportable code in the guts of games.
> There is a lot of the mac toolbox available in QT3, you can develop on win
> or mac, and it
> some apparently fast blitting routines (faster than copy bits, plus
> supporting alpha
> channel transparency, rotation, etc.). This stuff works on the mac
> obviously, and works
> on windows, and takes advantage of DirectX if it is installed, but still
> works if DirectX
> is not there. And of course you have all the "normal" QT stuff -- movies,
> midi, support
> of all major graphics file formats built in...
> 
> fine this way.
> 
> Just my 2 yen,
> ------------------------
> T. Colin Mack

Apple announced today that there will be a greatly expanded games support 
at the WWDC, including game support for Rhapsody developers. Probably 
in line with their new stategy to return to the home computer market, as games 
are a MUST in this market.

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Gary Zuercher
http://www.chromaconcepts.com