AW: What's about Squeak an 3D so far ?

Hans N. Beck HNBeck at t-online.de
Fri Jul 20 19:33:43 UTC 2001


 
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Hi, 
> Hans,
> 
> The Windows VM is at
> 
> http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/SqueakExe.zip
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
>

Thanks a lot ! I've got it. But one question remains: it's seems,
that there
is a special VM (the squeak-gl.exe) needed for doing accelerated 3D
Graphics. 
Why not including in the "main" distribution ? Like the DirectX APi
of Microsoft 
it should be part of the system, and - as the DirectAPI - it should
automatically switch
to software rendering, if no hardware is available (which was
automatically
done by using  OpenGL as low level render engine) ??

Or would it be possible some day, that squeak loads extensions of the
VM 
dynamically according to the hardware found on host system (3D,
Video, Sound, 
DSP ..............)

Greetings

Hans
 
 

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