This directory contains Release 4 of Dave Stampe and Bernie Roehl's fast 3D
screen rendering package, REND386.

The package runs only on 386 or 486 based systems (it WILL NOT WORK on 286s
and below!) with VGA displays.

If you're only interested in the demo, just get demo4.zip; if you're going to
be doing software development with the package, get devel4.zip as well
(you need demo4.zip in either case).

For development work, you'll need to have Turbo C++ 1.00 or above,
or Borland C.  For some modules you'll also need TASM.

If you want to start writing drivers for other video modes and pointer devices,
get the drkit.zip file as well.

The applications directory contains programs written using the REND386
library.

The converters directory contains several different types of conversion
programs that deal with .PLG files.

The floatsrc directory contains source code for a much older, all-C floating-
point version of the code.  You should probably download and read the
read.me file in that directory before bothering to retrieve anything else from
there.

The irit directory contains a fairly recent version of Gershon Elber's
IRIT solid modelling environment.  There's a converter to take the output
of that package and convert it to .PLG format for use with the rend386 demo.

The plgfiles directory contains objects that people have built.

The polyblit directory contains the source code for an older version of Dave
Stampe's polygon blitter routines as used in REND386.

The utils directory contains utilities that people have written to work
with REND386.

For more information about rend386, send mail to broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca
or dstampe@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (there's also a mailing list... send mail to
rend386-request@sunee.uwaterloo.ca to be added to it).