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Old 11-11-2004, 07:53 PM   #68
Erkki
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Originally Posted by Deano
DirectX is a godsend for games programmers as they can write for the standard without having to worry about different PC configurations, it's another fantastic achievement by Microsoft, is there anything remotely simmilar for Linux?
Well, for graphics there's OpenGL, which is multi-platform. And for sound there is OpenAL, which is also multi-platform. I don't know how popular that is, though. Regarding input and networking, I don't know. There's no complete package that includes all four of those aspects that I know of.
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