Is it possible to edit the OpenGL wiki, and if so, how? [part 2]

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I listed the extensions supported by these implementations in my HackerNews post about them: Fun fact: Windows Vista/7 had THREE separate OpenGL implementations built in | Hacker News. Thought it was worth mentioning here.

In addition, I found some very old threads mentioning this wrapper that I would like to keep links to:

OpenGL wrapping DX8

Originally posted by Ozzy: Just what i thought! [image] ) You mean so you can take a program that requires OpenGL and run it using DirectX 8 instead? It comes with Windows XP. Search the archives of this forum for the words “XP DirectX Wrapper” to read all about it.

Question regarding the OpenGL drivers on windows

Originally posted by V-man: [b]leeman’s first paragraph is correct but it’s not complete. On WinXP, MS redid opengl32.dll, what was once a software implementation of GL 1.1 It is a wrapper that makes D3D calls. [/b] Almost . On XP there’s a very limited OpenGL-over-D3D implementation, which normally kicks in only when you play quake3 or similar. For the rest of the cases, you get the usual software GDI implementation . [b] Of course, if you have drivers …

And I’d also like to ask again the moderators to merge this topic with its “part 1” one, mentioned in the first post.