Direct x8 on linux

[suchey 0]

It seems someone has been able to get direct X to run on linux...full story here. Could be a step toward linux servers and OFP on Linux.

[Guest]

An interesting development but not really a step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned. Emulating windoze is a silly idea at the best of times, running directx under that emulation just makes it worse. An openGL options would be far more favourable for windoze and Linux users.

[vektorboson 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Armourdave @ Feb. 19 2002,16:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">An interesting development but not really a step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned. Emulating windoze is a silly idea at the best of times, running directx under that emulation just makes it worse. An openGL options would be far more favourable for windoze and Linux users.<span id='postcolor'>

Well it's not really an Emulation but it's more a reimplentation of the Win and DirectX API. Direct3D calls are not emulated but wrapped to OpenGL! Of course a OpenGL and SDL (an API similar to DirectX) implementation of OFP would be nice! So I could get rid of Windows!

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well it's not really an Emulation but it's more a reimplentation of the Win and DirectX API. Direct3D calls are not emulated but wrapped to OpenGL! Of course a OpenGL and SDL (an API similar to DirectX) implementation of OFP would be nice! So I could get rid of Windows! <span id='postcolor'>

I stand corrected, must be fairly slow wrapping Direct3d calls to OpenGL, but any I agree it would be nice to see the back of windows. Though I would hope someone will develop a less resource hungry version of X sometime in the future.