Version History

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1994: Founded and evolved from the WordUp Graphics Toolkit, a popular 2D graphics library for Watcom and Borland C. The first versions used software rendering under DOS using VGA and VESA.

1995: Glide API support was added for version 2.5 when 3Dfx released the Voodoo 1 cards in 1995.

1997: DirectX and OpenGL support were added, however OpenGL was dropped after version 3.0. The first ever demoscene demo that supported DirectX under Windows (Trip, the Party 97) was created with Power Render.

2000: Version 3 released

2003: Version 4 released

2004: Version 5 released

2005: Version 6, which uses DirectX 9 and runs under Windows and partial Xbox support. Free personal edition was released on September 15, 2005.

2007: Version 7, currently in beta. August 2007 - $100 source code + site licenses offered

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