RE: [Dev-C++] moving to 3d programming

[David M. <ci...@ya...>]

Sorry if this is a repeat of someone else's post but I am
in the same position and recently came across this article.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1775.asp

--- Abhijit Shylanath <mu...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> > DirectX is used by many many people and organisations.
> Microsoft recently
> > removed themselves from the OpenGL consortium (or
> whatever its
> > called) as a
> > side note.
> 
> All the more reason to do OpenGL! :-)
> 
> Microsoft pulled out because OpenGL was challenging its
> monopoly. Even from
> a neutral (non-anti-M$) view, one has to agree that
> OpenGL is usually the
> most efficient, stable, and widely-supported. If you had
> a choice between
> having your graphics code compile only on one platform,
> versus having it
> compile with few changes on two, which would you go for?
> 
> One thing that amuses me was that before DirectX was such
> hot property, M$
> used to distribute OpenGL screen-savers along with
> Windows. It just goes to
> show their monopolistic ideals that even with OpenGL
> being good enough for
> them to use to make screen-savers for Windows, they
> decided to go ahead with
> Direct3D... not to create a better API, but to create an
> MS API.
> 
> >
> > I reckon DirectX is the way to go, you know 2D
> programming and Dx
> > has (had)
> > a 2D component, which is now part of Direct3D.
> >
> > Check out GamesDev.Net
> 
> gamedev.net?
> 
> Specifically, for OpenGL, see
> http://nehe.gamedev.net/
> 
> Also, for 2D, you might want to try using Allegro (see
> http://www.allegro.cc
> and http://alleg.sourceforge.net - not sure about the
> second one). This is a
> cross-platform library for graphics, sound, input,
> timing, etc. Used in
> conjunction, you can very easily port your code across
> different platforms.
> Allegro does use DirectDraw on Windows, if it's
> available.
> 
> --
> Abhijit Shylanath
> Homepage: http://mudeth.tripod.com/
> 
> 
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