SOC project

Willie Sippel willie at zeitgeistmedia.net
Wed Apr 19 03:59:14 CDT 2006


Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 10:44 schrieb Andreas Mohr:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:35:41AM +0000, Louis Lenders wrote:
> > When you hang around just a while on wine's IRC channel you'll see
> > that(i'd guess) more than 50% of the user's questions is about how to get
> > their games running. I think it would be cool if there would be some
> > proposals for SOC project to get better DirectX(/wined3d) support. From
> > the wine-users point of view i think that's
> > what they want :) I'm sure some of the developers that currently work on
> > wined3d can think of proposals that students could work on. At least ,
> > wouldn't be fixing bug 2398 be an idea for SOC?
>
> Yes please! Gaming is one of the major deterrents of wider Linux desktop
> use, so any positive development in this area is very nice.
>
> Andreas Mohr

I'd guess the DIB engine proposal would help there as well. One of the most 
important improvements, IMHO. Windowed OpenGL support would be nice as well, 
for game level editors (and many other things)... :-)

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