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ciroduran ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45663602[source]
but ... why?
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rererereferred ◴[] 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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sfn42 ◴[] No.45666106[source]
The original doom wasn't even proper 3d. It was a sort of 2,5d.

And sure you can do 3d rendering on modern CPUs. It's just better on GPUs. Like thousands of times better.

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1. Flamingoat ◴[] No.45666749[source]
The main limitation of the engine is you couldn't have room over room. There is definitely three dimensions when playing the game.