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

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

okay, it is not...
it's just left/right panarama pictures...
(and the game sucks) ^^;

hOSHI wrote:
> 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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