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Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API created by Apple, debuting in iOS 8. Metal combines functions similar to OpenGL and OpenCL in one API. It is intended to improve performance by offering low-level access to the GPU hardware for apps on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS.
Mac users have been able to use the Game Porting Toolkit to run a number of DirectX 12 games; tech news outlets have compared the tool to Valve Corporation's Proton compatibility layer for Linux. Apple also released a Metal Shader Converter that converts shaders to Apple's Metal graphics API .
MRJ v2.2.5 was compatible with Sun's Java Development Kit version 1.1.8. [1] Since the transition to Mac OS X, Apple has discontinued MRJ and instead maintains and distributes a port of Oracle's HotSpot Java virtual machine. [2] As of Java 7, Apple has discontinued its own JRE, and Java support on OS X/macOS now comes directly from Oracle.
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) is a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS operating system, written by Apple Computer.For Macintosh developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for System 7.x and Mac OS 8.x and 9.x.
The Macintosh Toolbox implements many of the high-level features of the Classic Mac OS, including a set of application programming interfaces for software development on the platform. The Toolbox consists of a number of "managers," software components such as QuickDraw , responsible for drawing onscreen graphics, and the Menu Manager, which ...
It's awards season for college football. Here's a list of the award winners in 2024.
OpenSceneGraph is an open-source 3D graphics application programming interface (library or framework), [2] used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, computer games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling.
MacX – An display server implementation of the X11 windowing system for Macs [73] using the A/UX, [74] System 7, and Mac OS 8 and 9 operating systems. [73] Discontinued in 1998 following the transition to Mac OS X which had native support for X11. [citation needed] QuickTime – A multimedia architecture for streaming, encoding and ...