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- PTCPas 0.99.16
- Nikolay Nikolov ([email protected])
- PTCPas is a free, portable framebuffer library, written in Free Pascal. It is
- distributed under the the terms of a modified version of the GNU LGPL (see
- modified_lgpl.txt).
- The latest version can be found at http://ptcpas.sourceforge.net
- Basically it provides an abstraction layer for high-speed low-level graphics
- access. It is OOP and supports multiple platforms. (tested on Linux, DOS and
- Windows, more will be added in the future)
- Since version 0.99.13 it is also possible to create OpenGL applications with
- PTCPas. See the ptcgl.pp and ptcgl2.pp examples in the 'examples' directory.
- PTCPas initially started out as a complete Object Pascal translation of the
- OpenPTC C++ library. Since then, OpenPTC development has stalled and PTCPas
- lives on as a fully independent Object Pascal project.
- Supported consoles:
- DirectX 3+ (should work on all x86 and x64 Windows versions since Windows 95,
- except Windows CE. This currently means 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003/
- Vista/2008/7. It is compatible with the x64 editions of XP, 2003,
- Vista, 2008 and 7 (both as a 32-bit application and native win64).
- On NT4 you need SP3 or later. Ancient versions of Windows 95 come
- without any DirectX version by default, so you may have to install
- it.)
- Win32 GDI (no fullscreen support. Slower than DirectX, but maybe more
- compatible.)
- X11 (on linux and other unix-like OSes, supports XRandR, XF86VidMode, XShm
- and xf86dga extensions)
- Cocoa for macOS (tested on macOS 11.6.1 Big Sur on an Apple M1 Mac mini.)
- Vesa 1.0+ (DOS. Supports LFB and banked video memory access)
- VGA (DOS, fakemodes, mode13h, etc...)
- CGA (DOS, added by me just for fun ... and maybe some day I'll even add
- EGA :-) )
- Text (DOS, 80x50 - 16 colours, should work even in the most buggy dos boxes
- (2000,XP) and IMHO looks better than AALib ;-) )
- WinCE GAPI (Windows CE 3.0 and later on devices that support GAPI. Needs
- testing on more devices.)
- WinCE GDI (Windows CE 3.0 and later. Slow. Needs testing on more devices.)
- All programs using PTCPas look (at runtime) for a config file that may contain
- various (platform specific) options, so you can try different consoles, etc,
- without the need to recompile. It is called ptcpas.cfg and is searched in the
- current directory on DOS and Windows. On unix it is .ptcpas.conf in the user's
- HOME directory. There's an example ptcpas.cfg file with all supported options,
- prefixed with #. If you want to try an option just remove the # and put it in
- the same directory as the .exe (or copy to ~/.ptcpas.conf on unix :) )
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- The original copyrights from the C++ version:
- The X11 classes are Copyright (c) 1998/99 Christian Nentwich
- ([email protected], old mail [email protected] no longer works?)
- The OpenPTC 1.0 C++ API is (c) 1998/99 Glenn Fiedler ([email protected])
- The OpenPTC C++ library can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openptc/
- The Hermes C library can be found at http://www.clanlib.org/download/legacy/
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