I think he means the software renderer build into Squeak. What's happening if 
you set up Squeak to use OpenGL depends on your system. If you link against 
GL libraries that support your graphics card it will probably use hardware 
acceleration. 

Martin

Am Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 17:10 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I used to play with Squeak in my notebook running win98SE, but just
> for curiosity, I was trying to reproduce Martin's example using a
> desktop computer running win2000 with an E&S Tornado 3000 graphics
> card.
> When you say "simulated" below, do you mean using OGL software
> implementation?
> If I set VM preferences to use OGL instead of D3D, will Squeak use
> software or 3D graphics card implementation?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Antonio Barros
>
> --- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at g...>
>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Something is funky here ... when I run your example, I get an "all
>
> black"
>
> > box with no colors whatsoever but rather a nicely long Squeak3D.log
> > complaining about GL_INVALID_ENUM in some pretty obscure place. If
>
> I run it
>
> > either D3D or simulated all works fine. I'll have to investigate
>
> further
>
> > what's going on here.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   - Andreas