{"id":120619,"date":"2009-12-31T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:31:20","slug":"great-things-of-2009-n0-9-%e2%80%93-hardware-accelerated-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120619","title":{"rendered":"Great things of 2009 N0. 9 \u2013 hardware accelerated graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D11786\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D11786\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"630\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlQ1eLRlexM&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlQ1eLRlexM&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"630\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The great controversy of 2008 was the lack of hardware graphics <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=drivers\" >drivers<\/a> on HTC\u2019s latest devices. At the end of 2009 we can very reliably say a device will have at the very least OpenGL drivers, allowing smooth user interfaces such as TouchFlo3D also SPB Mobile Shell to amaze us with transitions, flips and fades.<\/p>\n<p>While we have not seen much other software taking advantage of this, it is only a question of time before many great games such as <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=10711\" >Xact and Experiment 13<\/a> become standard on Windows Mobile, elevating the whole field.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know drivers are still controversial due to imperfect implementations, but if one look the huge ruckus 18 months ago, one can really appreciate how far we have come.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D11786&amp;linkname=Great%20things%20of%202009%20N0.%209%20%26ndash%3B%20hardware%20accelerated%20graphics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great controversy of 2008 was the lack of hardware graphics drivers on HTC\u2019s latest devices. At the end of 2009 we can very reliably say a device will have at the very least OpenGL drivers, allowing smooth user interfaces such as TouchFlo3D also SPB Mobile Shell to amaze us with transitions, flips and fades. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}