[Pipmak-Users] Re: pipmak on windows mobile 2003SE

[hOSHI <ho...@ga...>]

Okay, i understand that now. I just played ScummVM on my MDA and enjoyed 
  it that much, playing an adventure on the phone.
So I wondered about those myst-puzzlegames.

I think there is one for PocketPC already:
Atlantis Redux. But I'm not sure if it is 360° 3D-Cube.



Christian Walther wrote:
> hOSHI wrote:
> 
>> isn't there some kind of openGL-emulation maybe,
>> or something like that?
> 
> 
> That's what I was talking about. It's of course possible to do OpenGL 
> rendering in software (Mesa <http://www.mesa3d.org/> is a popular 
> open-source implementation used on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows have 
> their own software renderers, and I'm sure there are others). But for 
> the simple kind of graphics Pipmak uses, going through a full-featured 
> 3D renderer is much less efficient than what a specialized renderer 
> could do. The only reason to use OpenGL for Pipmak is that with today's 
> graphics hardware, the capability for fast OpenGL rendering is there, 
> and making use of it is much simpler and faster than letting the GPU sit 
> idle and doing the work on the already busy CPU (even though it could be 
> done more efficiently there).
> 
> Just try running Pipmak on a Mac or PC without (supported) 3D hardware: 
> you'll see that it runs just fine, but it's very slow - much slower than 
> e.g. QuickTime VR, which does its own software rendering.
> 
>  -Christian
> 
> 
> 
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