[SDL] Rotation API

Erik Yuzwa erikyuzwa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 14:10:54 PST 2010


What about stripping out the software rendering to an addon library  
like SDL-image?

Erik

** Sent from my iPhone so pls excuse any typos **

On 2010-03-01, at 3:05 PM, Mason Wheeler <masonwheeler at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Rainer Deyke <rainerd at eldwood.com>
>> Subject: Re: [SDL] Rotation API
>>
>> On 3/1/2010 14:41, Mason Wheeler wrote:
>>> Better question: what sort of hypothetical low-end hardware are we
>>> even talking about anyway?  How many years do we have to go back
>>> in time until it was even possible to buy a new PC, (desktop or  
>>> laptop)
>>> that didn't have hardware-accelerated 3D rendering with either D3D
>>> or OpenGL or both?
>>
>> You don't need to go back in time at all, you just need to download  
>> the
>> latest version of qemu.
>
> 1.  That's an emulator, not a real computer, and nobody writes  
> software
> with an emulator as their target platform.
> 2.  According to Wikipedia:  Graphics card (Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI
> VGA-card or standard-VGA-Graphics card with Bochs-VESA-BIOS-Extensions
> - Hardware
> level, including all non-standard modes, and with an experimental
> patch
> simple 3D via OpenGL)
>
> So apparently even Qemu has some sort of OpenGL support.
>
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