Mesa 4.0.1 DOS/DJGPP Port version 0.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Description: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, guess what... this is the DOS port of MESA 4.0, for DJGPP fans... Whoa! Legal: ~~~~~~ MESA copyright applies. Installation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Type "make -f Makefile.DJ" to compile the libraries. Long filename support is required during compilation. The examples are not built automagically (see Pitfalls below). Tested on: CPU: Intel Pentium w/ MMX @166 MHz Mainboard: ViA Apollo VP2 w/ 128 MB SDRAM Video card: Matrox Millenium 2064W w/ 2048 kB WRAM, BIOS v3.0 DJGPP: djdev 2.03 gcc v3.0.3 make v3.79 libGL (the core): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Of course, MESA 4.0 core sources are required. It will probably work with MESA 3.5, but not a chance with earlier versions due to major changes to the MESA driver interface and the directory tree. All should compile succesfully. The driver has its origins in ddsample.c, written by Brian Paul and found by me in MESA 3.4.2. I touched almost all the functions, changing the coding style :-( Sorry! Pitfalls: 1. The current version supports only RGB[A] modes, for it made no sense to me to endorse color-index (aka palette) modes. 2. Single-buffered is not allowed at all. Until I can find a way to use *REAL* hardware acceleration, it won't get implemented. 3. Another weird "feature" is that buffer width must be multiple of 4 (I'm a lazy programmer and I found that the easiest way to keep buffer handling at peak performance ;-). libGLU: ~~~~~~~ Mesa GLU sources are required. No comment! libGLUT (the toolkit): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, this "skeletal" GLUT implementation is not mine. Thanks should go to Bernhard Tschirren, Mark Kilgard, Brian Paul and probably others (or probably not ;-). I only changed it to be self-standing (Allegro-free). The keyboard, mouse and timer drivers were inspired from an old project of mine (D3Xl) and fixed with some Allegro "infusions"; I deeply thank to Shawn Hargreaves et co. My keyboard driver used only scancodes, but since GLUT requires ASCII values for keys, I borrowed the translation tables (and maybe more) from Allegro. Ctrl-Alt-Del (plus Ctrl-Alt-End, for Windows users) will shut down the GLUT engine unconditionally: it will raise SIGINT, which in turn will call the destructors (let's hope), thus cleaning up your/my mess ;-) The mouse driver is far from complete (lack of positioning, drawing, etc), but is enough to make almost all the demos work. The timer is pretty versatile for it supports multiple timers with different frequencies. It may not be the most accurate timer in the known universe, but I think it's OK. Take this example: you have timer A with a very high rate, and then you have timer B with very low rate compared to A; now, A ticks OK, but timer B will probably loose precision! As an addition, stdout and stderr are redirected and dumped upon exit. This means that printf can be safely called during graphics, but all messages come in bulk! A bit of a hack, I know, but I think it's better than to miss them at all. Window creating defaults: 640x480x16 at (0,0), 8-bit stencil, 16-bit accum. However, the video mode is chosen in such a way that first window will fit. History: ~~~~~~~~ v0.1 feb-2002 initial release v0.2 feb-2002 + fast triangle rasterizers + enabled sw and 1.3 extensions + hardware acceleration: FreeBE/AF + single-buffer modes (15-, 16-, and 32-bit) * video mode is set by CreateVisual, not MakeCurrent * internal changes to support multi-buf (unfinished) ! fixed some alpha issues... (thanks, Brian) + glut has now an internal timer * glut changed to support multi-window (unfinished) ! minor PC_HW corrections v0.3 mar-2002 - removed FreeBE/AF code - removed single-buffer modes Contact: ~~~~~~~~ Name: Borca Daniel E-mail: dborca@yahoo.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/dborca/