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5 Nov 2024 07:19:45 EST (-0500)
  Re: Yet another Doctor John rant  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 31 Mar 2008 14:46:22
Message: <47f13f8e$1@news.povray.org>
>> *one raised eyebrow*
>>
>> You're telling me a game making intense use of 3D hardware [not to 
>> mention CPU-intensive physics simulations] will actually work under 
>> software emulation?
>>
> 
> Software emulation???
> 
> Wine will convert the DirectX calls into OpenGL calls. (well, not 
> "convert"; it just has a DirectX "library" where all functions just call 
> OpenGL functions)

Wait - Wine attempts to perform emulation at the API level?

Damn, that's even harder than hardware emulation! o_O [At least the 
hardware is mostly documented somewhere...]


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