[Bug 421] Implement a DIB engine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421

--- Comment #431 from [e-mail] 2011-08-07 06:47:45 CDT ---
Wow... What an ass.

I just wanna say, I've been through the ups and downs with this one over the
years, and I'm extremely grateful (and always have been) for the hard work and
dedication of the devs on projects like this.

With what little I know of this sort of coding, I know it's horrible, usually
thankless work. It's a shame Max's dib engine never made it into the main wine
tree, whether it was for political or implementation reasons, but I want to
thank him for the 2 or so years I was able to play Age of Empires II: The
Conqueors on my linux box before the main wine tree would no longer compile
with his engine. You made my computing experience a bit better and I gave you
nothing for it.

I'm also excited about the work Huw is putting in, but I can be patient in the
knowledge that some day it'll work, like so much stuff from Linux has in the
past. I feel it's worth noting here that on the latest version of Windows, many
of the games and applications affected by this bug no longer function, and it's
from this we can see one of the great things about this community; As microsoft
leaves a wake of broken software behind with each new version, projects like
Wine continue to improve compatibility, even with old software from another
platform.

I'm keeping the faith in you guys, and I want you to know not everyone is a
detractor.