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Foil 106 FMS PET Next Steps: DirectX / DirectPlay (TVR) Front-Ends

From FMS: Forces Modeling and simulation and HPCC JSU HPC Summer Institute for Undergraduates, Jackson MS -- June 15 1998. by Wojtek Furmanski
DirectX - Microsoft COM library for interactive multimedia - geared towards multi-player gaming
Fast - Direct means bypass Windows overhead while still Win32 and COM compliant
Includes the following components: DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectInput, DirectPlay
DirectPlay offers support for networked game development - overall design similar to RTI in HLA.

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