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Started by gregs March 14, 2007 07:20 PM

6 comments, last by bronxbomber92 17 years, 3 months ago

gregs

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Author

March 14, 2007 07:20 PM

As some of you know, a new version of the Nehe SDK is being written to coincide with the new lessons, so as the lesson beta code is out, I have stuck some of the screenshots from the new SDK in my journal here for you to look at.

relsoft

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March 14, 2007 07:47 PM

Cool!!!

Hi.

Anonymous

March 17, 2007 11:35 AM

Nice !

Looks very promising, especially since it works on all platforms. :)

Anonymous

March 17, 2007 02:55 PM

Really hope you keep the old lessons archived. The Windows startup code was a good way show newbies how to get started on Windows + OpenGL who refuse to use other peoples library. Sure you can talk until you're blue in the face that SDL is good (I've never used it nor ever will mind you) place to get started.

Kazade

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March 18, 2007 04:25 PM

Quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
Really hope you keep the old lessons archived. The Windows startup code was a good way show newbies how to get started on Windows + OpenGL who refuse to use other peoples library. Sure you can talk until you're blue in the face that SDL is good (I've never used it nor ever will mind you) place to get started.

We aren't taking the old lessons down, they will always be there. Although, I would like to point out that I do not think it a good idea for anyone to point blank "refuse to use other people's libraries" with out weighing up the arguments for and against. Right tool for the job etc.

We aren't trying to force people to use SDL, but rather provide a means to reach a wider audience with our tutorials and in turn provide beginners information on how to reach a wider audience with their applications. There are other alternatives to SDL that do the same, but SDL does what we want, and it does it damn well. [smile]

Just for a bit more information on SDL, that I don't think has been mentioned in any of these beta threads. SDL is supported on a vast number of platforms, not just Windows, *nix and Mac. Check out this list of supported platforms:

Linux

Windows

Windows CE

BeOS

MacOS

Mac OS X

FreeBSD

NetBSD

OpenBSD

BSD/OS

Solaris

IRIX

QNX.

And unofficially:

AmigaOS

Dreamcast

Atari

OSF/Tru64

RISC OS

SymbianOS

OS/2

GP2X hand-held console.

BTW, nice work gregs ;)

Member of the NeHe team.

Clancy

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March 24, 2007 01:55 PM

Quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
Really hope you keep the old lessons archived. The Windows startup code was a good way show newbies how to get started on Windows + OpenGL who refuse to use other peoples library. Sure you can talk until you're blue in the face that SDL is good (I've never used it nor ever will mind you) place to get started.

Besides what Kazade said, tutorials should deal with the main subject at hand, and in this case it is openGL. It doesn't really make sense to do something in pure win32 code when only win32 people can use that code as is. Then someone must port it to their system for them to use it.

SDL isn't evil, yeah, it will require a one time download of headers/libs, but other than that, it is the best solution to get the openGL code work on all platforms without the need of someone needing to port it.