VortexGE is a software 3D renderer for the X environment that was created without using OpenGL/MesaGL. It also supports 2D image manipulations and audio access and is intended for creating Linux games without needing 3D card acceleration.
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The tarball distribution is now separated into two
files: source with documentation and media. Many
deprecated symbols and features were removed.
VortexGE now would be correctly built using GCC
4.2.x and GCC 4.3.x. Lua 5.1.4 is now used as the
scripting engine backend. The VDumpStack()
function was improved a bit. Support for streaming
Ogg-Vorbis audio as background music was added.
Starting from this version, the tar ball
distribution is separated into two files: one with
source and documentation, and one with media. The
_C, _T, C, and T prefixes for classes and
structures have been removed. Support was added
for a streaming sound buffer (but currently only
supports Ogg-Vorbis). Lua 5.1.4 is now used as the
scripting engine backend.
Many of the symbols and features which were
deprecated in the previous version have been
removed. The function
CDialogPage::GroupRadioButtons() now automatically
checks the first radio button in the list. A new
function, CDialogPage::CheckRadioButton() was
added. VortexGE should be correctly built using
GCC 4.2.x and GCC 4.3.x. Some code cleanups and
bugfixes were made. Some improvements were made in
the configuration script.
Some deprecated features have been removed. New controls, CPopUpMenu and CMenuBar, were added. All styles of the CSpinButton control are now implemented. The CInputBoxML control is improved. Support has been added for loading Ogg Vorbis files. There are some improvements in the CPanel3DBuffer class related to rendering, collision, and bounding box calculation. Lua 5.1.3 is now used as the scripting engine backend. There are a few bug and documentation fixes.
All symbols/features which were marked as deprecated have been removed. The CInputBoxML class now supports text selection and copying using the keyboard. A new CThreadKey class was added. VortexGE should now be built correctly using GCC 4.2.x. Some configuration script fixes and improvements were made along with some documentation fixes.
