OpenGL 2.0 Specification Released

Ryle · Apprentice Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 204

http://opengl.org/

Good news for Linux gamers. Will be interesting to see how quickly Cedega can take advantage.

cyborat · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 11

Fantastic news!!! Sure can't wait to see the new drivers come out - I just hope developers jump on this, and start building Linux-native games! This could indeed be what we've all been waiting for.
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sgaap · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I fear that game developers dont develop for linux because of the lack of a good 3d api (opengl 1.3 did the trick all right), but more because they dont know linux (no inhouse experience and prejudice against linux), now that linux on the desktop is gradually replacing mac osx as second desktop when it comes to marketshare I hope that it will make linux more interesting from a $$ perspective, sadly thats what MS made direct3d for (to limit portability)
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DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

now.. we need someone whos sucker enough to write drivers for nvidia and ati....

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p.s. maybe matrox

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Angrybob · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 575

DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

Doesn't it have anything else? like pixel shading?

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floam · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

"Like pixel shading"? Pixel shaders have been usable for a very long time.

The GL shading language was in 1.5.

Only thing special about 2.0 is that the extensions have ARB_ in front of them.
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