The new project aims to port DX10 to XP, Linux and MacOS X

Yesterday, Falling Leaf Systems announced the availability of an alpha version of a project called Alky Project. Alky Project has set itself a high task: to transfer DirectX 10, which is available only for Windows Vista, first on Windows XP, and then on Linux and MacOS X. The project is going to fulfill this goal by creating a converter that converts DX10 to run on non-leafy ones. operating systems. The target OS should work under the x86 architecture, which excludes the PowerPC version of MacOS X from the list.



This is what Ars Technica, a journalist who tried to look at the Alky DX10 demo under Windows XP, says:

I spent part of the day trying to see the DX10 demos recommended by the Alky project, but it wasn’t a success. To view the recommended demo, you need to install the Visual C ++ Express Edition, DirectX 10 SDK, and Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2. As a result, I spent at least 1GB of traffic to download all the necessary. Even after installing all three software packages and the Visual C ++ settings for interacting with the DirectX 10 SDK, I was unable to successfully run the recommended demo. In other words, the finished pre-assembly is far from showing the project in the best light.

Obviously, before the appearance of the Alky project running under Windows XP, a lot of time will pass, not to mention Linux and MacOS X. But the fact that the alpha version (as they assure) works gives some people hope.



To finance the project, Falling Leaf Systems has created a Sapling Program , according to which anyone who donates $ 50 to the project will be given access to the developed assemblies.



Undoubtedly, we all want the Alky project to succeed in the Falling Leaf guys. But now we have only an unknown company and the chief engineer - a 19-year-old programmer .