Star Project Aims to Bring DX10 Gaming to XP, Linux, OS X
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Apr 2007 22:13 UTC, submitted by Flatline
Games "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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RE[2]: OpenGL
by fresch on Sat 28th Apr 2007 09:59 UTC in reply to "RE: OpenGL"
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and support is inconsistent across hardware


Every graphics card you can buy today supports OpenGL!?

Graphics software used by professional companies like Pixar uses OpenGL?

Since Macs are widely spread in the scientific research section, and they also have a need to visualize 3D data, and OSX doesn't support DirectX they surely use OpenGL?

And what about the game consoles? They don't all run an MS operating system, so they don't all use DirectX?

And then there are 3D capable mobile devices, like mobile phones. Which once again do not all use MS operating systems and therefore do not all support DirectX.

DirectX => Microsoft => IBM compatible PC

Everything (and there is a lot of it ;) besides IBM PCs with an MS operating system uses OpenGL or something proprietary.

The base features of the OpenGL standards are supported by graphics hardware if it says it supports that standard, so most consumer graphics cards today have at least support for OpenGL 1.2 and the nVidia ones even for 1.4.

DirectX is used by almost all game developers because it is "The Default" and "It Just Works", not to forget "It's Good Enough" and "Everyone Uses It".

So, there you have it ;)

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