michael/lwjgl
michael
/
lwjgl
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

fix: remove platform specific wording

This commit is contained in:
Brian Matzon 2003-03-30 13:30:28 +00:00
parent 920a67b1ac
commit d4dbc47949
1 changed files with 2 additions and 8 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

10
doc/tutorial/intro.html
View File

@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ S-Format="%d %B %Y" startspan -->23 August 2002<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspa
<p>The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at
professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality
games to be written in Java. This tutorial is nonetheless aimed at <i>experienced
</i>programmers and won't be explaining some obvious techniques. Currently the
LWJGL supports only the Win32 platform, and JDK1.4.&nbsp;</p>
</i>programmers and won't be explaining some obvious techniques.</p>
<p>LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly <i>easy;</i> it is
primarily an <i>enabling technology </i>which allows developers to get at
resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the
@ -56,11 +55,6 @@ using LWJGL can be compiled into completely standalone native binary executables
by compilers such as GNU's GCJ and Excelsior's JET. We have done this by
implementing the library in such a way that <i>no dependencies </i>on Sun's
proprietry JRE binaries are present in the library.</p>
<p>The final aim of LWJGL is to make the library available for Win32 systems
above all others, for that is what most commercial programmers need.</p>
<p>Linuxians and Macophiles do not despair! There's nothing inherently
non-portable about the LWJGL - we just don't have the time and expertise to do
it yet. But it will happen.</p>
<p>3.1 General API</p>
<p>The general API gives us the foundations of game programming: we have a
Display class, for initialising the display and querying its available modes; we
@ -111,7 +105,7 @@ well. Be sure to read the caveat about using pointers in Java!</p>
<p>3.3 Sounds</p>
<p>Sound is based on the latest OpenAL1.0 specification, which comes with but
one extension, EAX, for interesting environmental effects. The LWJGL binary
distribution includes the OpenAL .dlls for Win32.</p>
distribution includes the OpenAL libraries.</p>
<p>3.4 Input</p>
<p>Input can be a complicated topic. A user can have all sorts of strange fancy
force-feedback hardware installed on their systems, with scrolly knobs and