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  I program using DirectX. But this works on Windows only. But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years, what should I do than?I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me. Is it hard to migrate from DirectX to SDL? Also, please give me a list of games made using DirectX, OpenGL or SDL. 
quote:Original post by Frozen  But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years,....  Yeah right.   "C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!";quote:Original post by Frozen  I program using DirectX. But this works on Windows only. But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years, what should I do than?I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me. Is it hard to migrate from DirectX to SDL? Also, please give me a list of games made using DirectX, OpenGL or SDL.   Windows is civilization.   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net;quote:Original post by neurokaotix  quote:Original post by Frozen   I program using DirectX. But this works on Windows only. But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years, what should I do than?I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me. Is it hard to migrate from DirectX to SDL? Also, please give me a list of games made using DirectX, OpenGL or SDL.   Windows is civilization.   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net quote:Original post by CPPMaster Poppet  quote:Original post by Frozen   But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years,....  Yeah right.   "C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"  Sadly, they are right. ;quote:Original post by Frozen  I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me. Is it hard to migrate from DirectX to SDL? Also, please give me a list of games made using DirectX, OpenGL or SDL. I migrated from directx to opengl some time ago, and that was not very hard at all. Leaving windows, and going to linux on the other hand is very hard. Linux has a cool ideoligy, and it may be open and costimizable, but windows is just so much more useful, it''s faster, it doesn''t crash that often, and hasn''t so many stupid bugs (don''t let those zealots tell you otherwise, they are lying). I really gave it a big chance, and I have read millions of fucking manuals, but for me it just failed, and now I''m back to windows. My Site;quote:Original post by neurokaotix   quote:Original post by Frozen    I program using DirectX. But this works on Windows only. But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years, what should I do than?I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me. Is it hard to migrate from DirectX to SDL? Also, please give me a list of games made using DirectX, OpenGL or SDL.   Windows is civilization.   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net quote:Original post by CPPMaster Poppet   quote:Original post by Frozen    But if Windows will dissapear or it won''t pe so popular in a few years,....  Yeah right.   "C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"   Fortunately, they are right.;  I''ve been using linux for 2 weeks now and IT''s GREAT. It takes some time to get adjusted to it and to learn how to do stuff, but dont get discouraged. It took me 1 day to figure out how to get OpenGL programs to compile, but heck it''s worth it. When you get better at it you can get other distributions which are harder to configure but are much faster and more stable. If want to use it, i recomment Mandrake 9.2. I found it to be much more stable than Windows. Even if an app crashes really bad, you can still kill it and you won''t need to restart. You can also play some Windows games on it (see WineX) but   don''t expect much... [ My Site ] [A link to gamedev] [A Link to google] [A link to nowhere] [  /*ilici*/    ] ;quote:Original post by Ilici  I''ve been using linux for 2 weeks now and IT''s GREAT. I''ve been using linux for 5 years now and I generally think it sucks. ;quote:Original post by Arild Fines  quote:Original post by Ilici   I''ve been using linux for 2 weeks now and IT''s GREAT. I''ve been using linux for 5 years now and I generally think it sucks.   Then why are you staying with it?   [My Image Gallery (WIP)][Greatest Tetris clone evar!][Return your stolen MP3s] ;quote: I am curious how many people use SDL, OpenGL or DirectX, so please tell me.I don''t use SDL, but I do use Allegro (how dare you fail to mention it!! ). I have a fair amount of experience with OpenGL too, but this system I have is pretty slow for 3D. I''m waiting until I get my new system next week to really do some serious stuff with OpenGL, and I''ll probably learn DirectX soon too, just because I like learning new API''s and everyone''s talk about it makes me curious Anyway, Allegro is a lot like SDL. It''s cross platform, and plays nicely with OpenGL if you want to use them together. But I wouldn''t worry too much about Windows not being popular anytime soon; it''s only got, like, 103% of the market  Jesus saves ... the rest of you take damage."A page of history is worth a volume of logic." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes