Thanks for the feedback Frank.

I want to do cross-platform (in terms of OS and CPU hardware) I don't mind sticking with one GPU vendor though. not being able to features specific to the GPU is probably not going to allow me to do what I need to do, ie is there a cross-GPU API for pixel shaders? (other than the Microsoft ones!)

Ben

----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:00 am Subject: Re: [PD-dev] What should I learn?

Hallo, Ben Bogart hat gesagt: // Ben Bogart wrote:

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First off If I want to develop on both Linux and OSX, ATI or Nvidia? Nvidia seems to have easily downloadable dev kits, whereas ATI

seems to

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have links to other opensource projects (like DRI for XFree86)

but I

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could not find much on developing for linux using ATI HW.

If you want to stay cross plattform, then stay away from one vendor's dev kit, that accesses the special features of their own hardware. Use a standard API, use OpenGL.

ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

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