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Originally posted by haunter
I said image rotation in another thread, but someone said (Boco methinks) That it would need to use Direct3D or summin (what ever makes light effects work) So not alot of people would be able to see it... but hey... Who cares? It's not going to effect me! 
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Personally, I could care less if some people wouldn't be able to play graal anymore...their ancient machine needs to be upgraded so it isn't so ancient anymore...but most people don't like spending money for new hardware even though it's fairly cheap.
Basically, if your processor is fast (probably at least a 330mhz) enough to prevent offline lag, your video card can handle light effects (having 4mb or more for vram is good), you have more than 64mb RAM, and 56k dialup (not everyone can use DSL, Cable, or some other kind of high-speed connection) then you are fine.
It's nice that Stefan is concerned about players with older machines, but that limiting the rest of us that want better visual effects and what not.
As for Sprite rotation and flipping, Stefan has said something about it needing D3D...there is probably a way to do it without but it's probably easier using DirectX to take care of it...but since most machines the run windows use DX, then it should be fine...how much vram does it need to flip a 2D image?