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habit of being incomplete, containing bugs, lacking support and documentation, and
eventually disappearing. One exception is GL4Java (also known as OpenGL for Java)
from Jausoft (http://www.jausoft.com/gl4java.html), which works with the latest
versions of OpenGL, many vendor extensions, GLU, and GLUT.
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GL4Java has been the basis of several good games, including Arkanae, a role-playing
fantasy game (http://arkanae.tuxfamily.org/), and Java is Doomed, a first person
shooter closely related to DOOM (http://javaisdoomed.sourceforge.net). Both games
utilised game engines to simplify the coding tasks.
3.3. DirectX versus OpenGL
A head-to-head comparison of DirectX and OpenGL isn't really fair: DirectX is a set
of APIs for graphics, audio, multimedia, networking, and others, whereas OpenGL is
aimed solely at the graphics domain
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