[B2-devel] DGA or SDL?

[Hetz B. H. <he...@wi...>]

On 11/25/2001, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:

"Usual tricks (VOSF, Direct Addressing) for the Unix port will be ported
to MacOS X later. Those two hacks are sufficient to bring up to 2x
performance improvement. Should it be enough ?

Is there anyway to do sort of DGA (Direct Graphic Access) ? Eventually,
someone may want to check SDL sources out."

Excuse me, but isn't that a bit strange?

If I recall correctly, DGA-2 on Linux works great as well as on FreeBSD, but 
I doubt if it works on Solaris or even Mac OS X.

OTOH, SDL is available on Linux, BSD, Irix, Win32, BeOS, Mac OS (classic), 
Mac OS X, and even AmigaOS.

SDL has been improved a lot (and being used a lot by Loki Game ports which 
all of them use SDL) and I think it could be an excellent replacement to what 
we have today with the DGA. It also means you could finally join many ports 
(Unix & Win32) since SDL is available for both of them and saving quite a lot 
of work.. It also supports all the DGA extensions (even Xv).

Just my thoughts ;)

Hetz