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  1. PTCPas 0.99.5
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  2. Nikolay Nikolov ([email protected])
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  4. This is a FPC port of the OpenPTC C++ library. It is distributed under the
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  5. the terms of the GNU LGPL (see lgpl.txt).
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  7. The latest version can be found at http://ptcpas.sourceforge.net
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  9. Basically it provides an abstraction layer for high-speed low-level graphics
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  10. access. It is OOP and supports multiple platforms. (tested on Linux, DOS and
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  11. Windows, more will be added in the future)
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  12. 3d acceleration isn't supported, nor planned. If you need that, you should use
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  13. something like OpenGL instead. :-)
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  15. Supported consoles:
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  16.   DirectX 3+ (should work on all Windows versions since Windows 95, except
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  17.               Windows CE. This currently means 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003.
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  18. 	      On NT4 you need SP3 or later. Also some very ancient versions of
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  19. 	      Windows 95 do not have any DirectX preinstalled, so it has to be
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  20. 	      installed separately.)
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  21.   X11 (on linux, maybe also other unix-like OSes, supports dga and XShm
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  22.        extensions)
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  23.   Vesa 1.2+ (DOS. LFB and video pages not yet supported)
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  24.   VGA (DOS, fakemodes, mode13h, etc...)
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  25.   CGA (DOS, added by me just for fun ... and maybe some day I'll even add
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  26.        EGA :-) )
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  27.   Text (DOS, 80x50 - 16 colours, should work even in the most buggy dos boxes
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  28.         (2000,XP) and IMHO looks better than AALib ;-) )
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  30. All programs using OpenPTC look (at runtime) for a config file that may contain
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  31. various (platform specific) options, so you can try different consoles, etc,
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  32. without the need to recompile. It is called ptc.cfg and is searched in the
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  33. current directory on DOS and Windows. On unix it is .ptc.conf in the user's
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  34. HOME directory. There's an example ptc.cfg file with all supported options,
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  35. prefixed with #. If you want to try an option just remove the # and put it in
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  36. the same directory as the .exe (or copy to ~/.ptc.conf on unix :) )
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  38. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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  39. The original copyrights from the C++ version:
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  40. The X11 classes are Copyright (c) 1998/99 Christian Nentwich ([email protected])
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  41. The OpenPTC 1.0 C++ API is (c) 1998/99 Glenn Fiedler ([email protected])
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  43. The OpenPTC C++ library can be found at http://www.gaffer.org/ptc
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  44. The Hermes C library can be found at http://hermes.terminal.at
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