directx or opengl

help

Software rendering. If you can't do it in software, you don't need to do it.

int 10h

poke the video memory

Glide

>>1
I'm utterly amazed that you think this is good trolling. There are plenty of resources on Google about this very topic. Furthermore, the answer is quite obvious when you determine what your project's needs are.

It's not good trolling. Please refrain from posting such trolls in the future.

>>1-6
SPAWHBTC

Please use patent unencucumbered technologies.

http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1224436949/

Why not use both?

They're not mutually exclusive.

http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/tutorials/directx9/

It's in C++. If you can't code in C++ then you shouldn't be thinking about shit like this so go fuck yourself. Other than that, it's a pretty good tutorial with example code (MSVC++).

You see, OpenGL has a better portability and it's probably the best for exping in game programming.
On the other hand, DX is easier to use and if you're under Windows it's probably a cheap way to code your game. I've never really used DX so I don't know about license and shit, probably you won't be free to release your game but I don't know much about this and I don't really think M$ will sue you for a shitty tetris clone.
As >>10 said, you could try using both, it would be a great way to learn more about them. I personally wouldn't advise doing it in a small project, I think focusing on one would be a better choice.
If it's your first experience in game programming then I suggest you to use SDL and stick with it. You can render OpenGL stuff through it and it's also easy as fuck ( well, Allegro it's easier but not as good ).
>>11
Yeah, good tutorial. For OpenGL check out the Red Book and NeHe's tutorial, though at the end of them you won't probably be able to make a decent game.

>>12
7/10. You had me until the very end, but it didn't evoke any strong emotion. You have to go for emotion points to troll better.

That said, I can't believe you just implied that the rendering engine has anything to do with making a decent game. Jesus, IHBT hard.

>>13
I don't think he implied that. I believe he was stating that the NeHe tutorials and the Red Book won't teach to to make decent games.

That said, the fancier the engine: the worse the game.

>>14
True words. All games produced after 2000 suck ass.

NeHe is shit code. Seriously, it may work, but it's horrible.

>>15
s/2000/the mid 90s/

3d games started to suck beginning with Doom. Thief, Quake, and Privateer 2 were the last gasps of 3d games that were any good.

>>13
Learn to troll rate. 7/10 requires at least 20 furious replies and a separate failure of a thread where someone tries to improve the original by failing so hard it fails. 9/10 is FrozenVoid and 10/10 is Leah Culver.

YES I ALSO THINK THAT IF A GAME IS 3D IT HAS TO SUCK

>>18
Ah, thanks for that distinction.

I was rating based on creativity and emotional response per troll unit. The creative element is partly composed of making it look like you're not trolling when you really are.

I'll keep these troll levels in mind for future ratings.

>>14
If you read his statement, it says
For OpenGL check out the Red Book and NeHe's tutorial, though at the end of them you won't probably be able to make a decent game.
If you put this in other words, it looks like
To learn OpenGL, check out the Red Book and NeHe's tutorial. However, at the end of them, you probably won't be able to make a decent game.
Terrible choice of words if you are correct.

"GRUNNUR"

>>20
Terrible choice of words if you are correct.
No, you appear to have arrived at some non-standard way of parsing English. Neither his statement or your paraphrase imply anything other than that they will not teach you to make a game.

>>18
Where on the scale does Anonix fall?

>>22
I don't think so, Tim.

"At the end of OpenGL learning, you probably won't be able to make a decent game."

This implies heavily that learning about rendering kits, e.g. OpenGL, make decent games. If he had wanted to say that they do not teach you to make games, he would have specified that they do not teach you to make games.

That's not non-standard English parsing. It might be strict English, but it's definitely standard.

>>24
s/make decent games/makes decent games

>>23
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1210044469/621

However, given it‘s sustained notoriety (and total lack of continuing effort), you might say it paid off as a long-term trolling investment.

>>24
2/10

>>24
It doesn't imply that. It implies the exact opposite. If learning about OpenGL made decent games, then he wouldn't say you'd be unable to make one after learning about OpenGL, because you would have just learned about OpenGL and thus learned how to make decent games, since learning about OpenGL would make decent games, which it doesn't so he did.

Please learn to think.

>>16
Thanks for the heads up. Now where is your OpenGL tutorial with better code.

>>27
^{[UML diagram needed]}

>>16
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