Remember the good old days with DOS when you had to write an separate Interface to cater for sooo many different Video/Audio cards? Seriously... DirectX has made developers lazy. Writing two separate effects to cater for say nVidia and ATI OpenGL extensions is still infinitely less work than simple Super VGA 2D graphics and Audio were under DOS.

Be thankful and stop complaining!

I like both OpenGL and Direct3D (The current API anyway), I actually find them quite similar. But Microsoft insists on changing their 3D API with every new DX version. This alone will prevent anyone who doesn''t want to learn a new API every year from sticking exclusively to D3D. My opinion? Support both!

theres more news about opengl2.0 at www.opengl.org out today.
definitly looks like its moving foward pretty quickly

>>I''d like to thank the 3Dlabs team for their hard work in producing the white papers on a very aggressive schedule, and reviewers from Alias| Wavefront, Apple, ATI, id Software, Nvidia, PTC, SGI, SoftImage, the Stanford Graphics Lab and others.<<

id software hehe

Direct3D is garbage, PERIOD.
wannabe OpenGL.

peace.

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