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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.api.misc,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.windows.x.i386unix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Freeware community needs 3d library NOW
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:08:33 -0700
Organization: Me
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Ian Kemmish wrote:
] People currently write device drivers for existing 2D chipsets
] for these freeware platforms, so the interface details must be
] available. What makes interfacing to 3D chipsets different?
] If they're all going to be working to the D3D API, then surely
] the situation becomes easier, not harder, than at present?
Actually, the difference is that many 3D capable hardware vendors
are not publishing programming information, except under NDA.
The net effect of this is making any interface written with
legally obtained materials impossible to distribute as source
code.
Freeware platforms distribute source code, or they aren't freeware
platforms.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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