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A multi-platform OpenGL interface for Java, allowing programmers to take advantage of the native and accelerated OpenGL implementations on the OS's rather than rely on the (then) primitive Java 3D tools. Introduced by UK based company Arcane Technologies Ltd in 1995 with a 1.0 GA release in 1997 and in addition to OS/2 it supported Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Solaris (Both SPARC and i86) and IRIX and early versions had also supported Linux and AIX. It was considered to be by far the most effective of the OpenGL bindings available for Java at the time and in fact in 1998 the Java standards group proposed to make the main Magician binding interface the standard OpenGL interface for the Java toolkit but the company's disappearance made that fall through.

The company and product disappears around 2000.

Versions

Last known version: Magician 1.1.0 (1999)

Links & publications

Archive copy of the Arcane Technologies Ltd homepage - Via Archive.org
Alligator Descartes: Magician Programmer’s Guide For Java - For version 1.1.3?
Alligator Descartes: Arcane Technologies' Response to OpenGL ARB JavaGL Issues

Licence and availability

Discontinued commercial software.

Publisher

Arcane Technologies Ltd

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-A multi-platform [[OpenGL]] interface for [[Java]], allowing programmers to take advantage of the native and accelerated OpenGL implementations on the OS's rather than rely on the (then) primitive Java 3D tools. Introduced by UK based company [[Arcane Technologies Ltd]] in 1995 with a 1.0 GA release in 1997 and in addition to OS/2 it supported [[Microsoft Windows]], [[MacOS]], [[Solaris]] (Both SPARC and i86) and [[Irix]] and early versions had also supported [[Linux]] and [[AIX]]. It was considered to be by far the most effective of the OpenGL bindings available for Java at the time and in fact in 1998 the Java standards group proposed to make the main Magician binding interface the standard OpenGL interface for the Java toolkit but the company's disappearance made that fall through.
+A multi-platform [[OpenGL]] interface for [[Java]], allowing programmers to take advantage of the native and accelerated OpenGL implementations on the OS's rather than rely on the (then) primitive Java 3D tools. Introduced by UK based company [[Arcane Technologies Ltd]] in 1995 with a 1.0 GA release in 1997 and in addition to OS/2 it supported [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Mac OS]], [[Solaris]] (Both SPARC and i86) and IRIX and early versions had also supported [[Linux]] and [[AIX]]. It was considered to be by far the most effective of the OpenGL bindings available for Java at the time and in fact in 1998 the Java standards group proposed to make the main Magician binding interface the standard OpenGL interface for the Java toolkit but the company's disappearance made that fall through.
 The company and product disappears around 2000.
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 ==Links & publications==
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990220055537/http://arcana.co.uk/products/magician/index.html Archive copy of the Arcane Technologies Ltd homepage] - Via [[Archive.org]].
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990220055537/http://arcana.co.uk/products/magician/index.html Archive copy of the Arcane Technologies Ltd homepage] - Via [[Archive.org]]
 * [[Alligator Descartes]]: [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs4451a_fall/magician213.pdf Magician Programmer’s Guide For Java] - For version 1.1.3?
 * [[Alligator Descartes]]: [https://www.opengl.org/archives/about/arb/meeting_notes/notes/JavaIssues/magician_issues.pdf Arcane Technologies' Response to OpenGL ARB JavaGL Issues]
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 * [[Arcane Technologies Ltd]]
-[[Category:Tools]]
 [[Category:Java Tools]]
-[[Category:Java]]
 [[Category:OpenGL]]
 [[Category:MS Windows Tools]]
 [[Category:Solaris Tools]]
 [[Category:SGI Irix Tools]]
-[[Category:MAC Finder Tools]]
 [[Category:Linux Tools]]
 [[Category:AIX Tools]]