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Is There Life Beyond DirectX?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 23, 2003 @02:24PM from the dispelling-the-penguins/games-myth dept.

Zangief asks: "Almost any gamer has, at some point, the idea of making their own game. I am no exception, so I've been playing around with SDL, which appears to be the logical decision over the craziness of DirectX. However I have also noticed that other alternatives, such as ClanLib. There is something else? Are there any other libraries, dev-kits, or tools that would be good for indie developers?"

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Re:Gotta ask by trouser · 2003-09-23 16:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What's wrong with DirectX?

OK, first up I've gotta say, 'You are an idiot.'

Second of all, DirectX might as well be called Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX and actually that's what I'm going to call it from now on because the whole idea of it makes me sick to the stomach.

And thirdly, you are still an idiot.

And you know if you use GLUT with OpenGL I'm pretty darn sure you can get all the mousey, keyboardy, inputy thing-a-ling all happening, which is nice I suppose.

And sound in games is for sissys.

And what sort of crap is Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX anyway. Is it Free? Does it run on any machine I own? Pointless stupid and crap.

And you are an idiot.

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