Re: [B2-devel] DGA or SDL?

[Gwenole B. <gb...@di...>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> 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.

DGA exists on Solaris with a better API, imho. It also permits you to do
windowed DGA but that's trickier.

> 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.

Yes, but the limiting factor, IIRC, is that SDL doesn't support 1-bit
screens. Yeah, what about implementing that into SDL then?

Bye,
Gwenole.