[vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like

[Firelight Multimedia]

Mainly to be cross platform.  If you wrap DX api with 'playsound' then
you can use 'playsound' on any machine and it will work if you have the
code also supported in your wrapper on those machines.

Brett Paterson
Firelight Multimedia
FMOD SoundSystem
http://www.fmod.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf
Of
> Vrykolaka
> Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 9:54 AM
> To: vorbis at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like
> 
> What is the purpose of a wrapper (keep it simple, I'm not a coder)?
> 
> Brett Paterson a écrit:
> > 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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