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rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

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241 points fschuett | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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ciroduran ◴[21 Oct 25 22:55 UTC] No.45662771[source]▶
Raylib's author was very happy to announce that you can compile an entire raylib program with no dependencies other than, say, being a win32 app https://x.com/raysan5/status/1980322289527976202
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smlacy ◴[22 Oct 25 00:34 UTC] No.45663602[source]▶
but ... why?
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rererereferred ◴[22 Oct 25 05:58 UTC] No.45665350[source]▶
Why not? The original Doom didn't use a GPU renderer. It should be possible to do simple 3d stuff in today's computers without it.
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1313ed01 ◴[22 Oct 25 07:17 UTC] No.45665811[source]▶
Even Quake launched with software rendering. Not sure if the first release even had support for any hardware acceleration?
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1. flohofwoe ◴[22 Oct 25 08:29 UTC] No.45666277[source]▶
IIRC GLQuake was more like an experiment, only Quake II had proper GL support from the start.