mobile hardwar[e]

[techno]

The technology is becoming so much better that in a couple of years we'll be able to run a dedicated server of any original game versions from a 4G windows enabled smartphone.My latest sony phone has nearly a magnitude more processing power and ram than my first laptop.

[Captain Zedo]

Windows tablets have more resources than desktops did when Hardwar was released. It's not that far fetched.

[techno]

Can windows tablets handle direct X applications as directplay would be needed for a dedicated server game?

[Denacity]

You could probably run a dedicated server off a Windows tablet, but over a 4G connection is going to give a lot of lag to your players

[techno]

I remember the old days when we hosted on 56k modems,it would still be better than that as the refinery did a lot to optimise network performance.A tablet running an instance on a wifi hub might run it then.

[Captain Zedo]

Nov 11, 2014 18:42:37 GMT -5 Denacity said:

You could probably run a dedicated server off a Windows tablet, but over a 4G connection is going to give a lot of lag to your players

No. Windows tablets run 8.1 RT, which does not use Direct X. Good point and something that would have to be solved. An emulator can easily use more resources than the game and Windows RT doesn't allow for many free resources.

[Denacity]

Nov 12, 2014 10:44:48 GMT -5 Captain Zedo said:

Nov 11, 2014 18:42:37 GMT -5 Denacity said:

You could probably run a dedicated server off a Windows tablet, but over a 4G connection is going to give a lot of lag to your players

No. Windows tablets run 8.1 RT, which does not use Direct X. Good point and something that would have to be solved. An emulator can easily use more resources than the game and Windows RT doesn't allow for many free resources.

Im sorry, but that is plain wrong.

SOME tablets run Windows RT but most of them in my passing run full blown Windows. If it has an Intel CPU, I can assure you that its Windows 8.1 since Windows RT is designed to run off ARM chips.

[techno]

Do alternative operating systems such as Ubuntu have their own equivalent to direct X?

[Denacity]

You have to use whatever the game was made to support. There is also OpenGL that a bunch of older games use but I believe it has fallen out of favor with newer developers.

[Pilot]

Nov 13, 2014 16:48:18 GMT -5 Denacity said:

You have to use whatever the game was made to support. There is also OpenGL that a bunch of older games use but I believe it has fallen out of favor with newer developers.

It has, but en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL is a bit popular in smaller circles.


For example, I'm pretty sure that the holoviewer on the link below is WebGL using HTML5 canvas.

robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/ships/origin-m50/M50-Interceptor

Click Technical View then Holo View to see what I'm talking about.

[Denacity]

WebGL is a new thing that is starting to catch on, I couldn't exactly compare it to the OpenGL of old.

[Pilot]

Nov 13, 2014 20:36:38 GMT -5 Denacity said:

WebGL is a new thing that is starting to catch on, I couldn't exactly compare it to the OpenGL of old.

Yes,

Design[edit]
WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 and provides an API for 3D graphics.[5] It uses the HTML5 canvas element and is accessed using Document Object Model interfaces. Automatic memory management is provided as part of the JavaScript language.[4]

Like OpenGL ES 2.0, WebGL does not have the fixed-function APIs introduced in OpenGL 1.0 and deprecated in OpenGL 3.0. This functionality can instead be provided by the user in the JavaScript code space.

Shaders in WebGL are expressed directly in GLSL.

History[edit]
WebGL evolved out of the Canvas 3D experiments started by Vladimir Vukićević at Mozilla. Vukićević first demonstrated a Canvas 3D prototype in 2006. By the end of 2007, both Mozilla[6] and Opera[7] had made their own separate implementations.

In early 2009, the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group started the WebGL Working Group, with initial participation from Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, and others.[4][8] Version 1.0 of the WebGL specification was released March 2011.[1] As of March 2012, the chair of the working group is Ken Russell.

Early applications of WebGL include Google Maps and Zygote Body.[9][10] More recently[when?], Autodesk ported most of their applications to the cloud running on local WebGL clients. These applications included Fusion 360 and AutoCAD 360.[11]

Development of the WebGL 2 specification started in 2013.[12] This specification is based on OpenGL ES 3.0.

Much in the way that many modern games don't go straight to an in-game main menu and open a type of web browser at launch. Star Citizen, AA: Proving Grounds, BF4, many MMOs, etc.

[Pilot]

Nov 13, 2014 16:48:18 GMT -5 Denacity said:

You have to use whatever the game was made to support. There is also OpenGL that a bunch of older games use but I believe it has fallen out of favor with newer developers.

EDIT just this quote:

Nov 12, 2014 12:53:24 GMT -5 techno said:

Do alternative operating systems such as Ubuntu have their own equivalent to direct X?

Necroing this thread:

So OpenGL and Vulkan seems to have really taken off in the past few years.

From what I understand Vulkan is approximately directX's competitor without being so... SYSTEMatically inclusive.
www.vulkan.org/made-with-vulkan