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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > It requires the svgalib library to work in 320x200x256 mode, so
> > if quake works, also my game should... :-)
> 
> FreeBSD has never supported svgalib, so I'm afraid it's always been
> "xquake" that worked. :-(

Yes, svgalib isn't clean as it would be, and it is not portable at all :-(
so i'm planning a rewrite for X11.
Writing raw Xlib calls is evil, Intrinsic are ugly (IMHO)...
The Qt library seem simple and clean enought to me... (and quite
supported) any suggestions ?

Thanks all.