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DirectX 9 Finally Out
T-Kir writes "Microsoft has finally released DirectX 9... although we'll have to wait until the games that fully exploit it are released, at least those with high end cards (aka Radeon 9700+) will be able to unlock more of the advanced features. Now all we have to wait for is OpenGL 2.0!"
Are there any bombs in the EULA? Or the latest version of Magic Lantern?
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It is hardly any surprise that Microsoft developers with access to specs support the hardware earlier than opensource developers without access to the specs.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
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DirectX has no reason to exist other that the hope that Microsoft has that they can pull so far ahead of an open standard, such as OpenGL, that games will look their best (or better yet for Microsoft, will only work at all) on Winx86. This is Slashdot news because a) it's a threat to open standards b) it's still interesting tech despite ill intent of it's conception and c) Slashdot is not a Linux site.
I'll be excited when
1) there are DX9 games available
2) a DX9 compat. card can be had without forking over a majority of my month's paycheck
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
why do ppl always compare dx against opengl? they are two quite different things. + opengl is graphics api + directx is api for graphics,sound,network,input devices. you should compare SDL or maybe allegro (dont remember the link) against dx but not a graphics api!
PR department for MS? I've *never* seen a positive article here about anything MS. Even this one has a jab about OpenGL. PR department it ain't. On the other hand, every time there's a new Linux x.xxxx.xxx.xxx or Mozilla 0.xxxxx release, it's announced as the "MS killer". I don't know what you've been reading kiddo.
Besides, believe it or not, geeks actually use MS stuff all the time. And kid, let me suggest that if you're so utterly offended, that you just set your preferences to ignore all MS related articles. You'd think that suck a l33t Linux h4x0r such as yourself would have figured this out already.
It's disingenuous to characterize MesaGL as "some people who have a page on Sourceforge". It's worse than disingenuous, it's FUD.
Mesa is the defacto standard which isn't Sun's or Microsoft's. It's the standard on RedHat, which is pretty damn mainstream for anyone running Linux.
dave
It's disingenuous to characterize MesaGL as "some people who have a page on Sourceforge".
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It's the standard on RedHat, which is pretty damn mainstream for anyone running Linux.
Where is the big difference? As a hardware maker I still wouldn't care.
-- The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Really dan? Show me the "something else". Mesa is practically the OpenGL standard on Linux/BSD and it would take any group many years to create something with all the capabilities of Mesa. I'm not aware of any other Open Source alternatives, and some quick googling doesn't show up anything. I gather that even the recent DRI framework added to Xfree86/Linux used Mesa as a part of its OpenGL rendering.
Sorry dan, but this and the "page on sourceforge" comments are just FUD. You have a point about the situation with hardware manufaturers, but you may be surprised at how organized a lot of Open Source projects are.