[Nel] The solution to run Snowball without 3D card under Windows

[neuser jean-philippe]

Information :
All the problem is that snowball use the opengl 1.2 extension.
Why ?
Because Microsoft system only include Opengl 1.1 and if you want to run
Opengl 1.2 program you need to download an Opengl driver of your 3D
accelerated card manufacturer.

The problem if you dont have a 3D card , you 're never be able to download
one !!

The solution is an API ( Mesa ) that implements all Opengl 1.2 and newly 1.2
spécification.

So you have to download Mesa 4.0.1 version and add additionnal patch to
correct the _finite compile bug . After compile librairie of Mesa.

After you have to compile nel 3D Opengl Driver but using Mesa API . How ?
- change your include Opengl directory by Mesa Opengl include directory
- add Mesa library directory
- add Mesa library in Visual studio to the nel 3D Opengl  driver project.

Compile your nel 3D Opengl driver and had the nel3DOpengl Dll and mesa DLL
in snowbal game directory.

Run and enjoy !!


On my work PC station ( 64 Mo Ram and duron 600 mhz ) it run at least at
0,33 fps   :) but it run perfectly without any change in snowball code.