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OpenGL for Palm OS Environment

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-graphics dept.

linuxguru wrote to us with the news that some wacky folks have ported OpenGL 1.1 to PalmOS. Current version is .2, and it's released under the LGPL [?] .

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  1. History repeats itself. by emerson · · Score: 5

    Once again, the Palm platform gets capabilities that were available 2-3 years ago on the Newton. (*sigh, brush away tear)

    Now that there's rudimentary OpenGL, all Palm needs is:
    -- text-to-speech integrated with all text displaying widgets
    -- handwriting recognition that doesn't make you write in martian and that works all over the screen at any angle
    -- a screen big enough to read more than a paragraph at a time
    -- an animation player for QT-style movies (these might exist fpr Palm, but I haven't seen them)
    -- a Web browser with GIF and JPG support
    -- a 200+ MHz processor

    ...and then we'd have reinvented the MessagePad 2100, and we could start THINKING about improving on the state of the art, circa 1997.

    (*sigh) Newton, we barely knew ye... Although someone knew ye well enough to make an OpenGL port in '98 or so.

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