Re: XGS/32 v1.0b - Released!!

[Dan@home.com (Dan)]

On 16 Aug 1998 23:54:41 GMT, smentzer@ecom.net (Steven W. Mentzer)
wrote:

>There are some minor threading differences between Win95 and NT. Unfortunately, 
>throw Direct/X (actually DirectDraw only) into the mix, and some Win95/98 
>machines will work, and some will not. Unfortunately, I have neither the time 
>or patience to make XGS/32 work for all Win95/98 machines. As far as I am 
>concerned, you gain nothing when using Win95/98, so just use NT4. It is much 
>more stable (regardless of what the un*x bigots tell you)     :)

So it doesn't require Directx anymore?  Is there even a Directx
equivalent for NT 4?

BTW, I agree with your other message about code portability.  If
you're writing it on *nix, then code portability is obviously an
issue.  Once you're on Win32 (or Mac, or OS/2 or whatever), then I say
go for performance.

Dan