Re: Vroom Source

[Alexandre Naaman <naaman@laplace.engr.sgi.com>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Stefan Arentz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some time ago I mailed with Chris Fouts <fouts@gameover.atlanta.sgi.com>,
> the original author of Vroom. We talked about open sourcing Vroom so that
> it can be ported to other platforms. (We used to play a lot of Vroom
> matches in the office). Chris said that he would contact the legal
> department to ask permissions, but I never heard back from him. I tried
> to contact him, but his email address doesn't work anymore.
> 
> So, any change of a Vroom source release? Very interesting since Inventor
> is also available now.

Hi Stefan,

 Vroom does not use Open Inventor (I dunno if this was implied or not
...). It's based on OpenGL. I suggest getting in touch with the people at
your local SGI office for more info about open sourcing Vroom.

A+,

Alexandre.

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