[vorbis] Open-source DirectX-like

[Jernej Simonèiè]

Hello Vrykolaka,

9. julij 2001, 10:53:44, you wrote:

> What is the purpose of a wrapper (keep it simple, I'm not a coder)?

Wrapper is a program, which converts calls to one library to some
other library. Most known wrappers for windows are probably Glide
wrappers (Glide is [was] 3Dfx'es graphics library for it's Voodoo
processors, which many games used; many of these programs could use
only Glide for 3D graphics, so they didn't run on non-3Dfx cards. Some
people then wrote wrappers for glide, which emulated Glide over
Direct3D or OpenGL, thus allowing games to run on non-3Dfx
processors).


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