p96 & cgx open standard replacement anyone?

[OlafS3]

This is a great idea, in my opinion.  In fact, would it be terrible to start porting in some of Aros' improvements?  It's all open source reimplimentations of Amiga OS3.1, right?  

I wish I could program worth a damn, 'cause I'd certainly like to help with things like this.  Hell, if I had the knowhow, I'd write a warp3d driver for my Radeon card  People charge too much for the Voodoo cards (not to mention it'd break my nice flow of DVI to radeon and VGA to the indivision).

Does p96 or cgx have any hardware accelerated API within them?  Or is that all in the warp3d and/or mesa stack?

slaapliedje

hardware accelleration is not p96 or cgx, both are "only" rtg supporting true color and similar. Hardware accelleration is like you wrote either in warp3d or mesa. Because it is based on graphic cards it is normally faster than using AGA/ECS but not in the sense you mean.

[OlafS3]

If any effort is put into making yet another RTG system, I think it would be great to first investigate if the new OS4.1FE integrated RTG/graphics.library API could be backported to 3.x, and thus share driver and application code moving forward.

I'd inquired about the driver API per this link, but have not seen any response yet.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=797841&postcount=26

it would be closed

[OlafS3]

That makes no sense, why would you want to keep an API closed?  You'd want more people to use it, right?  Kind of the whole point of having an API....

slaapliedje

not the API but the sources to create the libraries

I would prefer to have open technologies and at least for Aros 68k it would be not usable

[OlafS3]

If the API is open, sources can be written

:-)