kas1e wrote:@Reynolds
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I'd warmly welcome if minigl (with restrictions) would be continuously supported

That all depends on the developer's wish, time, and their interest in. No one develop minigl anymore, and the ones who left, concentrate instead on ogles2 and warp3dnova: because it gives a little more fun. With ogles2/warp3dnova/gl4es bugs fixed more or less fast in compare with minigl, where no one fix anything anymore.

More of it, sam440, microa1 and pegasos2, can't be labeled as the good machines for semi-modern PC ports. Most of them can't handle modern GFX cards anymore, and even x1000 and x5000 which can handle new cards, a bit too slow for some new games from EntwicklerX (like the “pyramid quest” they're trying to make to be 60fps).

So until there will be found some developer willing to spend their free time and fun on the minigl improvements, i fear the support of minigl will drop more and more.

New games need more CPU power, new GFX cards, and new drivers. The same story as everywhere.

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Also can't see the point why to buy any if their lifetime will predestined to such short timeframe as the mA1 had...

If you have no interest in, and see no point, then surely you shouldn't buy anything. But you also shouldn't be in hope everyone thinks the same way, of course, and want to stick with microa1, radeon9250 and os4.0 (for example). Things improves a bit, some of us like it, some not. But at least improvements and changes in software and hardware front, that what make it fun for some of us and still stick with it. Probably there will be much less activity in os4 world, if all will have microa1 and have no progress in hardware/software fronts.


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I recently reinstalled my OS4.1.6 and it is so frustrating to download anything from OS4depot for example, then I have to realize that my HW is not supported.

Sure, some last games require warp3dnova/ogles2. As well as some apps like shaderjoy, glsnoop. But the casual software still the same as before, and not need warp3dnova/ogles2.

Probably reason why things not works for you, is that you're on the os4.1.6, which should be updated as soon as possible to os4.1FE update2. Most of the new things will just not work for you anymore on older OS4.

What I mean by all this, that even if this all retro and dead horse, still it's interesting to progress bit by bit, and not stick on the past fully. When things improves (even a little), it means updates of software and hardware, just like everywhere.

Saying all that, of course will be good if someone come, and made a MiniGL working on all old and new GFX cards, and be better in the features and speed. But ..