> Old and crappy code, plus Micro$oft abandoned ddraw from Windows8 and 10. So the devs
> see no need to support it too.
>
> these facts can be count into "in the way of MAME's progress", but removing it will
> not make MAME better or faster. keeping it, wouldnt harm any other videomode, just
> saying.
>
> IMHO, it was done, because of BGFX. The goal is to have only BGFX as videomode and
> BGFX doesnt support ddraw. I have big hopes in BGFX, but didnt see things like that
> coming.
>
> seems there is no love left for crt it is considered "dead" hardware.
>
> if at any time the developing of GroovyMAME comes to a halt, the CRT users will be
> screwed .
Nothing's stopping anyone from maintaining a fork with the DirectDraw renderer.
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