Porting to OpenGL
by Erik 'Flybert' Aamot · in Technical Issues · 08/27/2002 (9:47 pm) · 2 replies
Obviously a newbie type question:
If I wanted to take a old game like Red Baron II .. that while is '3D' only outputted originally in DirectDraw , then later in Glide only 3D acceleration (with Red Baron 3D) ...... what would it take to port such a game to OpenGL ? ..
Would I need the sourse code of the game ?
I guess it would be a similar to Dynamix having patched Tribes(1) to OpenGL .
No clue here , but it is a serious question :)
If I wanted to take a old game like Red Baron II .. that while is '3D' only outputted originally in DirectDraw , then later in Glide only 3D acceleration (with Red Baron 3D) ...... what would it take to port such a game to OpenGL ? ..
Would I need the sourse code of the game ?
I guess it would be a similar to Dynamix having patched Tribes(1) to OpenGL .
No clue here , but it is a serious question :)
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08/28/2002 (11:30 am)
Ummmmm... Tribes1 has always supported OpenGL, just have to make sure you've got the right drivers installed and have OpenGL device driver selected in Tribes1's options. 
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