Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Apr 2007 22:13 UTC, submitted by Flatline
"Last Wednesday, a company called Falling Leaf Systems announced the availability of an alpha of something called the Alky Project. The Alky Project has a lofty goal: to liberate DirectX 10 gaming from the confines of Vista and bring it first to Windows XP, and then to Linux and OS X. The project plans to do this by building a converter that can take in a DX10 game executable and spit out a modified version that can be run on a (non-Vista) target OS. The target OS must be x86-based, which rules out the PPC version of OS X, since the converter doesn't do any binary translation."
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2007-04-26
Unless and until this project is supported by microsoft I would say this is useless project. Come-On you can't have directx 10 on systems where microsoft doesnt want it. DirectX10 is all about next generation graphics and plenty of new APIS, and if you are not doing the complete, fast and reliable its not worth a single penny.
Wine is great, but see how much they have implemented. Its tough. Game developers should rather user DX 9 or open gl if they want their stuff to run on XP. and OpenGL if they want to run it on Linux.
Enduser side, if you are a gammer (die hard gammer,thats why you want dx 10 and spent money on a high priced dx 10 card) you would rather buy a new vista capable PC and enjoy DX 10 at fullest