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From: young@brahms.udel.edu (Philip Young)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Metagraphics metaWINDOWS
Message-ID: <17313@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 18:23:34 GMT
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In article <26190@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>I am interested in writing games for the IBM PC using Turbo C++ 1.01 and a
>third party graphics library.  Everyone I have talked to has mentioned that
>MetaGraphics makes the best, but there are so many that I am confused.
>
   I have used MetaWindows with MS C extensively and have been very
happy with the product and it's support.  However, I can't really comment on 
the differences between TurboWindows and MetaWindows.
   As you may suspect there is a small "gotcha" with the MetaWindows
license.  If you use MetaWindows with the resident driver program there
is no royalty (and you ARE allowed to distribute the driver with your
program).  This driver must be loaded into memory before you run your
MetaWindow program.  With MetaWindow Plus this driver isn't necessary;
all the routines are incorporated in a library.  But, there IS a royalty
fee for programs using the libraries.  I guess they don't consider MW+ a
"low end product".