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ATI offers DirectX - OpenGL conversion

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Here's the great news I stumbled onto.

Tech News said:
AMD SUBSIDIARY ATI has released open source source software that converts the Windows DirectX 9 Application Programming Interface (API)into Open GL.
According to MacWorld, the move could mean that Apple users could seriously dip their toes into the world of gaming.

The HLSL2GLSL code works on the Mac OSX and translates Vole's High Level Shader Language (HLSL) into the OpenGL equivalent GLSL.

The move means that programmers who are struggling to make games work on the Mac OSX by using their own libraries will have something more solid to work from. It could also lead to the development of more games being available on Linux, something that has kept the operating system away from the home desktop market.
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For those of you that are wondering what this means... This means that using the ATI code, a game designed using the "Windows" Direct X stuff, can now be ported over to Mac and Linux platforms. Microsoft has held a monopoly on the PC gaming platform for many many years. Now, Game Developers (like myself) can start making their new games work on other PC Operating Systems. With this in mind, it opens the door a bit more for Linux and Mac to take a bigger share of the PC markets. For those of you tired of Microsoft's Windows, you can in the near future plan to have a Linux system and still plan to enjoy a good game.
 
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