Crazy idea and question

[Metalhead33]

Anyone thought of compiling Irrlicht on a DOS compiler, like Borland, Turbo or Watcom?

The first Quake was made for MS-DOS too, and it used OpenGL.
No one wants to develop DOS games today, but it would be somewhat fun to see Irrlicht working on DOS.
There is a GCC compiler for DOS too, in case more serious C++ support is needed. Or an MS-DOS cross-compiler.
It would be fun to run it on DosBox.

[CuteAlien]

I suppose you would have to write some IrrDOSDevice class in Irrlicht for that.

[Metalhead33]

Wouldn't cross-compiling for MS-DOS target suffice though?

[CuteAlien]

Even in MS-DOS you need some way to set up the graphic context. Don't know - maybe the SDL device still has DOS-support.

[Metalhead33]

Even in MS-DOS you need some way to set up the graphic context. Don't know - maybe the SDL device still has DOS-support.

DOS support OpenGL The first game to ever use OpenGL - Quake - was for DOS.

[hendu]

Negative, the DOS port of Quake used software rendering. GL was only win95 and up:
http://alag3.mfa.kfki.hu/games/3dfx/glquake/glq_faq.htm

[CuteAlien]

Yeah, wasn't opengl, but that's not what I'm talking about. The problem is not the driver (we could use software drivers) but the device. Even if it had opengl you'd have to set it up first. Same for software driver - the device still would have to create some target bitmap to render into. Take a look at the other devices (Win32, Linux, SDL) - they all can render to OpenGL, but before doing that they have to create the environment to do so. Not saying it couldn't be done - just that's the part you'd have to code.