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OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX

Posted by michael on from the etch-a-sketch dept.

MJ writes "Is OpenGL 2.0 All That? Hopefully you will be able to answer that yourself after reading this article from XtremePcCentral. They have cool looking leap frog graphics with lots of arrows and a quote from John Carmack, what else could you ask for? Robert Richmond does a great job of delving into this subject. Carmack says, 'The implementation went very smoothly, but I did run into the limits of their current prototype compiler before the full feature set could be implemented. I like it a lot. I am really looking forward to doing research work with this programming model after the compiler matures a bit. While the shading languages are the most critical aspects, and can be broken out as extensions to current OpenGL, there are a lot of other subtle-but-important things that are addressed in the full OpenGL 2.0 proposal.'"

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  1. OpenGL 2.0 by MisterFancypants · · Score: 4, Funny
    That's better than 1.2! But worse than DirectX 9.0!

    You can tell by the numbers!!

    1. Re:OpenGL 2.0 by user32.ExitWindowsEx · · Score: 1, Funny

      Weird. DirectX is the only Microsoft product that I know of that has made it to version 9.0 and not been renamed something like DirectX 2002 or DirectX.NET...

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    2. Re:OpenGL 2.0 by Thomas+A.+Anderson · · Score: 3, Funny

      You dork - he was kidding.

      You need to compile a humor mod...

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    3. Re:OpenGL 2.0 by the+way,+what're+you · · Score: 5, Funny
      I heard that they were going to start using Roman Numerals when DX 10 comes out. They'll call it DirectX X.

      By version 20, it should be good enough to simulate virtual 3D porn environments - thus justifying the name DirectXXX.

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  2. Carmac? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And all this time he has been calling using the name Carmack ... the cat is out of the bag now

  3. Re:Too little too late? by Ziviyr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, ever since DirectX was integrated into the Linux kernel OpenGL has been dead. ...Huh?

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