An Open Source Direct3D 8.0 Wrapper for Open GL

Jason writes: "RealTech-VR, creators of the V3X 3D engine, also developed a Direct3D-to-OpenGL wrapper and they have now open sourced their work. They are seeking for more hackers to help porting the wrapper to Linux and MacOS. A lot of the functionality of Direct3D is already ported but it still needs quite some work. Get the scoop at OSNews."

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Give it up. This has been tried and has failed multiple times. idSoftware and Loki and a few others failed miserably at selling linux games for two reasons: linux users are singularly unwilling to pay for any software or they were/are unwilling to wait 2-3 months for the linux port to make its appearance on the store shelves. Thus, they buy the windoze version and don't buy the linux version when it comes out. It is over. All you get now are idsoftware releases of linux binaries that require the windoze version be purchased to supply the guts of the game. The binary is free in and of itself and isn't officially supported. It is also only done out of the goodness of their hearts.

There is no market in linux for games as has been demonstrated again and again. I say this as someone who DID buy Loki games and would have been happy to buy idSoftware games for linux had I ever actually seen them.

WineX is the only good way to play (windoze) games via linux. I encourage you to check out Transgaming and their WineX. If you take a look at the list of games that work, it is actually quite long (Deus Ex!). They are specifically targeting getting games to work instead of simply trying to get most other windoze apps to work. Their winex version wont run all the productivity/non-game windoze apps that regular wine or codeweavers wine will but it is VERY good at games, directx or no.