From: vijay@kpc.com (Vijay Sarathy) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.opengl Subject: Kubota Graphics releases Dore 6.0 to Public Domain Date: 18 Jan 1995 22:19:16 GMT Organization: Kubota Graphics Corporation; Santa Clara, CA, USA Lines: 99 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.52.28.51 As many of you might have heard Kubota Graphics Corporation will, for all practical purposes, cease engineering operations on February 1, 1995. For the lack of much to do here at Kubota for the past 6 months, except for putting out maintenance releases (ho-hum), we thought that it might be fun to put Dore' out on to the public domain. So we have cleaned it up a little bit, ported and made sure that it works on Linux, FreeBSD and NT. Today, we at Kubota Graphics are proud to announce Public Domain Dore' (Dore 6.0). We certainly hope that it will be the next big graphics API ;-) Enjoy! Vijay Sarathy -- Vijay Sarathy Kubota Graphics Corporation e-mail: vijay@kgc.com voice: (408) 987-3309 ============================================================================== Copyright Notice ================ /************************************************************************** # Copyright (C) 1994 Kubota Graphics Corp. # # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for # any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the # above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all # copies, and that the name of Kubota Graphics not be used in # advertising or publicity pertaining to this material. Kubota # Graphics Corporation MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY # OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED # "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE AND KUBOTA GRAPHICS CORPORATION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. **************************************************************************/ Abstract of Package (submitted to sunsite) =================== Title: Dore' API (Dynamic Object Rendering Environment) Version: 6.0 Description: Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine library. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable, and extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to X11, PEX, IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has been ported onto most unix systems, including Linux and FreeBSD. It has also been ported to Windows NT 3.5. Author(s): The key authors and contributors from a long list of illustrious but evanescent computer companies are listed below: - Companies - Dana Computer Ardent Computer Stardent Computer Kubota Pacific Computer Inc. Kubota Graphics Corporation - Key Authors/Contributors - Michael Kaplan Mark Patrick Bruce Borden Kevin Weiler Dan McLachlan Helga Thorvaldsdottir Carolyn Houle Lori Whippler Steve Hollasch & many more - Public Domain Effort - Doug Ambrisko Larry Church Rita Ozanne Vijay Sarathy Maintained-by: Maintained-at: sunsite.unc.edu, ftp.cdrom.com Platforms: SunOS, OSF/1, Irix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT Copying-Policy: Public Domain Keywords: Dore', 2D & 3D Graphics API, 3D Graphics subroutine library -- Vijay Sarathy "Used-car salesman to customer: `Not only Kubota Graphics Corporation does it have low mileage, but most of that was while it was being towed.'" e-mail: vijay@kgc.com voice: (408) 987-3309 - Bob Thaves - From: vijay@kpc.com (Vijay Sarathy) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Kubota - Dore 6.0. release (followup/clarifications) Date: 19 Jan 1995 18:41:30 GMT Organization: Kubota Graphics Corporation; Santa Clara, CA, USA Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.52.28.51 Hi Dore' fans! I am really heartened by the response I got to the message I posted yesterday announcing the release of Dore' 6.0 from Kubota. Some clarifications that I thought I should make in response to the e-mail and phone calls: 1) Kubota has released the copyright to the public. So you are free to make modifications but cannot claim authorship. You are free to make changes and modifications as long as the copyright message is included. 2) Many people asked where exactly on susiste and cdrom were the files located. I apologize for not mentioning this earlier. Anyway, I just uploaded the files yesterday. The file is called: pdore-6.0.tar.Z (about 7.25 Mb) (about 25 Mb uncompressed) On sunsite I uploaded it to /uploads & on ftp.cdrom.com I uploaded it to /incoming The tar file does not have the Dore' libraries built for any system. It has complete sources and excellent documentation (man pages, ps files, troff and tools) Alright folks! Looks like there is a lot of interest in Dore' especially in Europe. I'm glad Kubota allowed us to do this. Hope all of you find it useful. -- Vijay Sarathy "Used-car salesman to customer: `Not only Kubota Graphics Corporation does it have low mileage, but most of that was while it was being towed.'" e-mail: vijay@kgc.com voice: (408) 987-3309 - Bob Thaves -