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Overview

The KallistiGL (KGL) name is not intended to infringe on the OpenGLŪ trademark owned by Silicon Graphics Inc. It stands for KallistiOS Graphics Library. Please note the following quote (in case you didn't read the legal stuff) from the trademark.pdf published at the SGI website
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/license.html

``This product is based on the published OpenGLŪ API, but is not an implementation which is certified or licensed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. under the OpenGLŪ API.''
We are not making this a library that is going to be 100% OpenGLŪ complient, nor are we planning get it conformance tested and licensed. It is our goal to make a library that is fast and provides enough features that it will be possible to port some OpenGLŪ games, and also make it easier for homebrew developers to create new and original works for the Dreamcast. We are striving for a certain level of OpenGLŪ conformance but do not intend to add features that we believe are either incompatible with an embedded system or don't map easily to the hardware. At the time of this writing KGL is a Dreamcast only API.


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Dan Potter 2002-07-29