Re: [B2-devel] Planning for Basilisk II 1.0

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Rob Snyder wrote:

> > Note that in no way do I intend to maintain the Windows port. It's not a
> > sane exercise. Once the two mentioned bits are fixed, I am done with it.

> I have been looking at the windows code lately like Lauris old DX code.  The
> only problem is that Lauris code really needs to be re written from scratch.
> while the DX calls would workon a modern version of DX since it is backwards
> compatible but there are so many improved ways of doing  the same thing in DX9
> it the old DX5 code from Lauri looks well awful.

Really, these days, truly portable code shouldn't touch DirectX at all
unless there's a very pressing need to do so.  SDL is probably the better
way to go here, ditching DirectX altogether.  Sure, it might be a little
more abstraction, but it would probably buy you a lot in maintainability.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...> <to...@vi...>