Re: DirectX and Linux/Unix as a game development/target environment

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00

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Agthorr (agthorr@sputnik.res.wpi.edu) wrote:
: Do you think perhaps it would be good to make a direct clone of the
: DirectX API, to make porting easier?  Or would it be better to make a
: new API?

A Microsoft DirectX or Apple GameSprocket compatible library would have
one very big advantage over a new API. The former would make a linux port
extremely inexpensive and therefore more like to happen (at the commercial
game developer level, not the hobbyist level). 

Tony
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