Application Programming Interfaces

Software theme

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Audio APIs (too short)0 game
Display Control Interfacea predecessor to DirectDraw. (too short)1 game
DirectMusicA deprecated subset of the DirectSound API that allowed high level access to hardware through DirectSound. Not available to 64-bit systems.2000 / 20048 games
DirectX (too short)container group
RRedlineRendition's proprietary graphics API. (too short)2 games
RSX 3D Audio APIUses the RSX 3D API for audio output. (too short)1 game
S3 MeTaL APICan use S3's proprietary MeTaL 3D rendering API for graphics. (too short)1999 / 20002 games
Steamworks APIThe software part that ties a game to the Steam community, matchmaking and other features. (too short)2003 / 2020349 games
WinG APIA predecessor to DirectX designed primarily to aid porting DOS games to 16-bit Windows. Early versions of 32-Bit Windows also supported it.1994 / 199812 games