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OpenGL, interesting. Someone knows more about this choice?
by maaaats 11y ago
OpenGL, interesting. Someone knows more about this choice?
- thrownaway2424 11y agoPipes predates Direct3d by a lot. It was first release, IIRC, in Windows NT 3.5. At that time it was novel that a PC had OpenGL.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIt was one of the four OpenGL screensavers 95 had (presumably NT 3.5 had the same bunch). They used opengl32.dll which provided OpenGL with software rendering, IIRC.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoRight, these had no requirements for hardware support at all, because if they had had any nobody would have been able to run them. The release of these screensavers for Windows NT predated the release of Windows 95 by a few months, which is why I mentioned it. Windows NT 3.51 also introduced the inexplicable animated cursors feature later included in Windows 95.
- kabdib 11y agoAnimated cursors, like puppies and kittens, need no explanation :-)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThough they do consume rather a lot of conventional memory, which might cause problems :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago*five, in fact.