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jayvan · 12/01/2009, 06:03 PM

This seems to indicate that directfb on the pre is using software only and no hardware-acceleration: elinux.org/User_Interfaces#DirectFB

"While this is an excellent project, the number of hardware-accelerated devices supported are small and does not include any CPUs you'd find on a phone."

Either way I'm excited because it seems the door may be opening to running more native apps. If we can launch an emu through the terminal app running alongside luna, then I don't see why NFS wouldn't be possible. Palm may already have an early GPU driver for testing that would allow a native NFS game to run with Luna and take advantage of hardware-acceleration.

Also, the terminal app allows us to manually enter back-end commands. So wouldn't it be possible to create an app that allows back-end access just like terminal, but simply runs a script to automatically start the native app instead of allowing for user input?

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jayvan Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 7 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 1 Post	This seems to indicate that directfb on the pre is using software only and no hardware-acceleration: elinux.org/User_Interfaces#DirectFB "While this is an excellent project, the number of hardware-accelerated devices supported are small and does not include any CPUs you'd find on a phone." Either way I'm excited because it seems the door may be opening to running more native apps. If we can launch an emu through the terminal app running alongside luna, then I don't see why NFS wouldn't be possible. Palm may already have an early GPU driver for testing that would allow a native NFS game to run with Luna and take advantage of hardware-acceleration. Also, the terminal app allows us to manually enter back-end commands. So wouldn't it be possible to create an app that allows back-end access just like terminal, but simply runs a script to automatically start the native app instead of allowing for user input?