There are quite a few games enthusiasts amongst the wine team and wine
already has some opengl and directX support I think.
Better to divide the problem (of running windows software under linux)
rather than divide the effort I suggest.
Bob Hall
(I'm also quite keen that Win4Lin retains its fairly lightweight feel,
and doesn't act like a trojan-horse to import W9x' bloat and unlovely
quirks into my OS)
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Hendrickson <pc-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> another (Possably simpler) item to work on would be OpenGL (esp.
> under XF4.x) many CAD programs and many other professional programs
> that use 3D rendering, use OpenGL, as well as some games. (Like
> Unreal, UT, and MDK2) the advantage of this is that you could
> simply piggyback on whatever OpenGL drivers might be already
> installed be-it Mesa, or an accelerated driver (like 3DFX or
> NVIDIA's, which I�am having problems with by the way 'fwin', but
> I�think it's an NVIDIA�problem dealing with multiple X servers, not
> Win4Lin)
>
> Chris
>
> John Nunneley wrote:
>
>> Direct X is on our feature list but noone is working on it at
>> this time.
>> But I'm curious, what (non-game) applications require this?� The
>> reason why
>> this has not received a high priority - although loads of people
>> ask about
>> it - is because we are trying to focus on business/productivity
>> application
>> support.� We would love to support games, it just not a top
>> priority.
>> Regards, John
>
>> nall wrote:
>
>> > hello.
>> > i'm happily using win4lin (and have purchased a copy, though
>> it hasn't
>> > arrived yet). i've also been using the beta for 2.0, which
>> i've found to
>> > be quite stable. i'm curious if there are any plans to
>> implement DirectX
>> > under win4lin. there are a few applications i'd really like to
>> use that
>> > fail due to the lack of DirectX. i realize that the
>> development team
>> > probably has their hands full with 2.0, but i was just curious
>> if this
>> > is on the radar screen.
>> >
>> > thanks.
>> > nall.
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