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

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From: Paul Bleisch
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:00

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Peter Stephane (speter@essi.fr) wrote:
: Once this will be accomplished, we can make a wrapper library on top
: of this Linux API that is very similar to DirectX (which relies on the
: COM object model and so is very specific to Windows!!) or another 
: game-related API.
: 

COM is not specific to Windows.  The implementation of DX using COM
under Windows is specific to Windows.  I have COM compliant objects
that work just fine without Windows.

Paul

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From: pbleisch@uiuc.edu (Paul Bleisch)
Subject: Re: DirectX and Linux/Unix as a game development/target environment
Date: 1997/01/30
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