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Nice find!

>From their blog:

As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our
Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games.
These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other
than Windows Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista,
by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for
execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will
you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest
games.

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Ouch!  Theres a reason this stuff is done in hardware, and people are
going to find that out pretty fast :)

I highly doubt their claims.

Richard

On 03/06/07, Clive Hunt <clive.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't think this was going to  be possible but it looks as though a group
> of programmers are trying to achieve this.
>
> http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/
>
> Its still in its early stages but they do claim that XP'ers will soon be
> able to play Halo 2 and Shadowrun once they have sorted out the API's and
> other coding.
>
> Maybe there is hope and no need to use Vista.
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