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OpenGL 1.3 Spec Released

JigSaw writes "The OpenGL Architecture Review Board announced the new OpenGL 1.3 specification (1.8 MB pdf). In OpenGL 1.3, several additional features and functions have been ratified and brought into the API's core functionality. New features include Cube map texturing, multisampling, new texture modes that provide more powerful ways of applying textures to rendered objects, compressed texture framework etc. Let's all hope that GL can catch up with Direct3D now, as with the latest DirectX8, Direct3D has done some big steps towards feature-set, speed and even non-bloatiness when it comes to coding for it, while OpenGL 1.2 was released more than 2 years ago and it did not offer as much."

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  1. those are your list of the best games ?? by Archfeld · · Score: 1, Troll

    Tribes2 is a bomb, even the company that made it thinks it stinks. Quake 3 is nice, but I think UT on D3D is just as nice, DOOM3 ?? is it out or just being developed ?

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    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?