We hope to release builds in the coming months progressing from demos to fully functional games. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite. The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.
These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. Writing on the Alky Project blog, Brocious says:Īs a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. However 19 year old Cody Brocious, a software reverse-engineer from San Diego, California, claims to have create a wrapper for Windows executables that make use of DirectX 10, allowing them to be used on operating systems other than Windows Vista.
Microsoft has always claimed that DirectX 10 is an integral part of Windows Vista and cannot be implemented into other operating systems.
