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  2. DirectX - Wikipedia

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    The first game was released as Doom 95 in August 1996, the first published DirectX game. Microsoft promoted the game heavily with Bill Gates appearing in ads for the title. [8] DirectX 2.0 became a built-in component of Windows with the releases of Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows NT 4.0 in mid-1996. Since Windows 95 itself was still new and few ...

  3. Microsoft XNA - Wikipedia

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    XNA Build is a set of game asset pipeline management tools, which help by defining, maintaining, debugging, and optimizing the game asset pipeline of individual game development efforts. A game asset pipeline describes the process by which game content, such as textures and 3D models, are modified to a form suitable for use by the gaming engine ...

  4. List of commercial video games released as freeware

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    The ROMs of the game and its sequel were formerly offered by the owner Randel Reiss for free download. In 2021, however, the rights to both games were purchased by Piko Interactive, leding the download links for the ROMs to disappear from Technopop's website [121], but they are still available for free download on Zophar's Domain.

  5. Xbox system software - Wikipedia

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    Across all four generations of the Xbox platform, the user interface of the system software has been called the Xbox Dashboard. While its appearance and detailed functions have varied between console generations, the Dashboard has provided the user the means to start a game from the optical media loaded into the console or off the console's storage, launch audio and video players to play ...

  6. List of open-source video games - Wikipedia

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    The games in this table are developed under a free and open-source license with free content which allows reuse, modification and commercial redistribution of the whole game. Licenses can be public domain , GPL , BSD , Creative Commons , zlib , MIT , Artistic License or other (see the comparison of Free and open-source software and the ...

  7. Alex St. John - Wikipedia

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    The early DirectX team worked closely with Id Software to port Doom to Windows 95 which became the very first DirectX game ever published. [1] DirectX became the media foundation for Windows itself and later the DirectXBox. As a Microsoft evangelist, St. John became known for his outrageous and often controversial marketing stunts to attract ...

  8. DirectPlay - Wikipedia

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    DirectPlay is part of Microsoft's DirectX API. It is a network communication library intended for computer game development, although it can be used for other purposes. DirectPlay is a high-level software interface between applications and communication services that allows games to be connected over the Internet, a modem link, or a network. It ...

  9. 3DMark - Wikipedia

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    The graphics tests cover a range of rendering techniques and DirectX 9 features, expanding on a similar system used in 3DMark2001. [9] 3DMark03 does not use a 3rd party engine for any of the tests; light DirectX wrappers are used instead. The final score is a weighted sum of the game tests. The results of CPU and other tests are not taken into ...