[MUD-Dev] OpenTNL and DirectPlay (hardware acceleration)

[Jeremy Noetzelman]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Harlan Beverly wrote:

>   1) anyone have any idea of how many games are supporting these
>   APIs?

I am unaware of any games using OpenTNL.  As you may know, OpenTNL
is the Torque network layer repackaged for licensing.  It's a
networking API which is relatively new.  Other APIs such as ENet and
RakNet have been used for professionally published games.  I am
unaware of any games that use OpenTNL.  Clearly, the Torque based
games use a variant of it, but it's integrated into the Torque
engine and is different from OpenTNL itself.

OpenTNL isn't really a standard.  It's another API thrown out there
into the mix.  I'm not implying it's a bad API, but to call it a
standard may be a bit excessive.  DirectPlay could probably be
considered a standard by its availability on every single DirectX
enabled platform.
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