Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Yaroze dev continuing Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 18:30:03 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3b738446.3736202@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <9hq70s$odf4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9hqc3f$odf6@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9hqda2$p4m2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kn06t$qtb1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kn0ts$qtb3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kp379$qtb10@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kpm6i$qtb20@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9krbmu$3h37@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9krf4t$3h39@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9krl1v$3h315@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <3b796603.1552801720@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9krv0k$4at3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-099-074.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Hell, I never walk around waving a Microsoft flag... I only use their software cause I have to... I'm not going to just dump it all and become 100% linux because you still need to suffer on the linux front (or whatever other environment you pick -- due to the lack of good software). I can't help but laugh when I see people so proud that they were able to boot up linux and run Microsoft Word under it... Why bother then? Anyway... I don't know if you can necessarily *recompile* out of the box, but I thought that DirectX 8 includes the DirectX 7 calls, so the person who has 8 installed on his system can run your game which is compiled under 7. The other thing (which is rather annoying, but might be relevant) is that they stick version numbers in a lot of their function names. I think that's their effort to make it upwardly compatible... When you make a new version of directx, include all the old ones and make sure you *add* functionality, but never *change* functionality... Who knows... I've written more Yaroze stuff than DX anyway! Sauce On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:05:15 +0100, "Jon Prestidge (Jon@surfed.to)" wrote: >Oh yes and speaking of directX ... note my comments I posted before you >mentioned it:- > >> >Compare that with MS who don't seem to have the foggiest >> > idea what upwards or backwards compatibility is. > >does directX 7 code work when it's compiled under directX 8 ? I've not used >either but from seeing news groups on the subject it seems like a case in >point. They can't even do it with word processor documents. I can only >think that people put up with it because they've never used proper reliable >professional computer systems like VMS. > >Sorry for ranting Steve, I'll shut up for a few weeks now! > >Jon >