[vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like

[Daniel Vogel]

Bernd Kreimeier worked on OpenAL before joining Loki if I'm not mistaken.
SDL was created by Sam Lantinga before joining Loki. Loki has the trademark
on OpenAL and Creative is pimping OpenAL. Most of the OpenAL development
happened by Loki employees - the Linux implementation was written by Joe
Valenzuela and the spec was mostly worked on by Bernd Kreimeier, Michael
Vance and Joe Valenzuela.

OpenAL is a cross platform 3D sound library and NOT a wrapper for DirectX.
Neither is SDL. SDL is a cross- platform library that abstracts used
functionality for games. Threads, sounds, input, graphics, ... so it has
roughly the functionality of DirectX.

At the moment I'm using OpenAL (and Ogg Vorbis) for our engine and am quite
happy with it.

- Daniel Vogel, Programmer, Epic Games Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org]On Behalf Of
> Brett Paterson
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: vorbis at xiph.org
> Subject: RE: [vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like
>
>
> He's actually talking about OpenAL if he mentioned loki.  www.openal.org
> OpenAL is not a replacement, it's just a wrapper for dx, and started out
> with good intentions but ended up being pretty crap.
> Brett
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Greg Wooledge
> > Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2001 3:01 PM
> > To: Aardvaak
> > Cc: vorbis at xiph.org
> > Subject: Re: [vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like
> >
> > Aardvaak (aardvaak at ifrance.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Some times ago, I read something about an open-source replacement
> for
> > > the DirectX API, thus allowing most of the games to be played under
> > > any OS, if this nw API was massively adopted. I do not remmember its
> > > name, i only know it is develloped by Lokigames' founder. Do you
> know
> > > anything about that?
> >
> > SDL.  http://www.libsdl.org/
> >
> > --
> > Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
> > greg at wooledge.org              |    - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
> > http://wooledge.org/~greg/     |
>
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