[fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

[Aleksa Todorovic]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:46, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM, markweber <markweber79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have thought graphics software needed to deal with video card and so, and
>> needed to make very powerful calculations. If you say it's a software as any
>> other, so that's right.
>
> CAD type programs take video card hardware into account to speed up
> the calculations considerabley. The GPU is very powerful and fast,
> when it comes to graphic calculations. But in the end, those
> calculations could also be done with your normal CPU and software -
> although somewhat slower.
>

As well as games. I'm using FPC & fpImage in my multimedia/game
engine, and it works perfectly - PNGs, JPEGs, BMPs, TGAs - you name
it, fpImage works flowlessly. One thing that could be improvemed in
fpImage is it's internal format - it would be really helpful if one
could choose between bytes and words (maybe even Longwords/Qwords ?),
as well as order of components (RGBA vs BGRA). Several defines (plus
lot of changes) should do the job.