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nak@cbnews.cb.att.com (neil.a.kirby) writes:

>>market, IBM, pushing VGA, EGA, and CGA.  SVGA was just a fairly minor
>>extension of VGA, and it took a damned long time before software
>>started making regular use of it, this time because another major
>>player was pushing: Microsoft.  You may sell a few game cards in the
>>short run _if_ it does something extra for Windows.

>BINGO!

>And now we are back to one standard to write games for.  It used to be CGA,
>then EGA, then VGA.  But there are numerous SVGA engines out there; S3,
>Mach8, Mach32, ET4000, etc.  What is that one standard?

>WINODWS.

>Code written for Windows runs on all of the SVGA engines mentioned above.
>The resolution varies from 640x480x16 (face it, nobody runs Windows
>with less by choice) to 1280x1024x256.

BONG. 

We are talking about games here - windows is not a games engine. Windows is
great for software like word processors and spreadsheets that need to have
a nice looking and reasonably responsive user interface, but it is hardly
workable if you are looking for real time graphics, especially 3d. Ever
heard of double or triple buffering in Windows? How about real time 3d,
with gouraud shading and texture mapping? 

>It's worth thinking about.

Sure is. Until Windows and other GUI systems like OS/2's PM ebrace something
like the OpenGL 3D graphics standard, I just would not even consider windows
or PM as an option for the sort of stuff that I do...

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