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...Open PHIGS uses OpenGL for rendering graphics rather than implementing it's own abstraction layer to the graphics hardware, or using the PHIGS Extension to X (PEX). The reason for doing so is that today every graphics card manufacturer provides their own OpenGL implementation, which takes full advantage of the accelerated drawing capabilities in the hardware. PHIGS is a higher level API than OpenGL that works with a hierarchical scene graph. Models are built up in a Centralized Structure Store (CSS), a database containing the drawing primitives and their attributes (color, line style, etc.). ...

...I have a much better tools and GUI that was never uploaded to SourceForge that I developed before I started down this road. I'm currently trying to track down the code. I recently logged in for a completely different reason only to notice that this software keeps getting downloaded... and there are probably lots of disappointed folks out there once they try to run it. Sorry about that. Anyway, long story short... I'm looking for the real code that's actually usable. Check the Atari Age forums. Once I find it, I'll post a message about it there. ==================================== Old comments ==================================== A cross-platform Java Application for creating, editing, and exporting Sprite and Playfield graphics for the Atari 2600 game console for the purpose of providing the modern Atari 2600 Homebrew community an enhanced graphics editor.