by Johan » Sep 23, 2002 @ 11:46pm
Hi Thierry,
There are some new devices coming that will be using neomagic accelerators. They will have a large framebuffer with full flip support, and will use Windows CE.NET as their operating system. As of yet it is unclear how the exact SDK will look like, but the driver will be able to access surface data from video memory. I don't think I am in the position to reveal more information on them, but the release date is set to soon (3-4 months). As always, this might change...
It is my personal opinion that today's Pocket PC platform never will receive any "real" hardware-acceleration (real sdk and large frame buffer), especially with all the cool CE.NET devices being released soon... It seems that Pocket PC people are more interested in 128mb RAM, built-in GPRS and finger-print recognizers. But that could change I guess...
Gratz on the .60 release by the way! I am kind of fortunate to be able to work on GapiDraw during work hours (sometimes), otherwise I would have had to cut down on development time considerably. Impressive work considering the short timespan between releases!