Open-GL Stars is a simple benchmark/demo program. It doesn't use any sophisticated GL extensions and should run on every card with a proper Open-GL driver.
This program is freeware so download and enjoy!

-	easy to use BeOS-like user interface
-	fully customizable screen resolution and bit depth
-	full-screen or window rendering
-	adjustable texture filtering mode: bilinear / bilinear+mipmaps / trilinear
-	adjustable gamma setting
-	many different parameters to play with (press "h" to see on-screen help)
-	all parameters are accessible through easy to use menu and stored in one .ini file
-	many statistics (frames per second, polygons per second, polygons per frame...)
-	benchmark mode (2000 frames, animation updated by frame - you will see identical frames regardless to your machine performance, only time of the benchmark pass will vary - just like in Quake 3 timedemo)
-	nice Open-GL effects (like lens flare and some nice particles) - you can see them on the screenshots
-	screenshot feature (using Targa file format) - "s" key
-	detailed report of program run and benchmark results are displayed in two separate windows

Hardware requirements:
- any modern PC
- graphic card with Open-GL driver

Software requirements:
- Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP

Tested with the following systems:
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows XP

0.5.0.0520 - [24.10.2000]
-	improved support for all Voodoo cards (it should be possible now to run full-screen) - special thanks to Daoxiang Gong from 3dfx for her support and testing
-	default test parameters are now set automatically every time you press the Run button in benchmark mode

0.5.0.0510 - [11.09.2000]
-	improved support for AMD-K6 processor (there were some problems with math exception so I changed the initialization code - it does not affect the performance compared to the previous version)

0.5.0.0500 - [01.09.2000]
-	next official version (Polish version also available)
-	added introduction (only in demo-mode)
-	added adjustable texture filtering mode: bilinear/bilinear+mipmaps/trilinear
-	improved textures - new Stars logo, Open-GL logo is now stored in other.tga, better space texture
-	particle system optimizations (new equation when rendering as points)
-	all selected options are now added to benchmark results (texture filtering etc.)
-	full information about initialization and program run in console window
-	all screenshots include the address of the official Stars home-page
-	better save dialog on older systems (no "open as read-only" option)
-	messages are now blended correctly
-	revised MAPI support - the program will try to use normal shell calls if the MAPI support is disabled
-	fixed WinME wrong icon bug

0.5.0.0411 - beta1 [15.08.2000]
-	tested and developed under Windows ME (4.90.3000 - Final, English)
-	improved MAPI support
-	improved UI (uses new save dialog from Win2000/WinME)
-	you can now set gamma if you want brighter (or darker) picture
-	completely new Open-GL Info and Help windows
-	finally got rid of some stupid screen-shot bug
-	rewritten clipping planes for stars (huge improvement in panoramic/wide resolutions, but it is far from being perfect)
-	more precise lens-flare positioning and rendering
-	(too) many bug-fixes and optimizations

0.5.0.0250
-	added MAPI support
-	customizable fonts and colors
-	you can put your own logo (end.tga) - for example to let everybody know where to download the good software from
-	improved GUI (more hints and shortcuts) and space rendering
-	all settings are now stored in stars.ini file
-	the cursor changes to hand when moved over labels linking to some web-pages or e-mail addresses
-	many bug-fixes and optimizations

0.5.0.0201
-	completely new space rendering
-	new user BeOS-like interface
-	more statistics (fill-rate, polygons per second, etc.)
-	updated link to UPX
-	removed command-line

0.4.4
-	first public release [20.03.200]
-	completely new background rendering

0.4.3
-	many small bugfixes (too many...)
-	text and icons are properly scaled with the resolution

0.4.2
-	added lens-flare effect
-	added debug mode to test lens-flare algorithms
-	particles may be rendered as normal textured GL_Quads (some cards (like my old i740) do not accelerate smoothed points so it was extremely slow with GL_Points)

0.4.0
-	added experimental particle system (using anti-aliased GL_Points)
-	pressing [Alt]+[Tab] closes rendering window
-	more accurate timer routine (timeGetTime)
-	some minor (and major) bugfixes

0.3.6
-	reduced number of glBindTexture calls (stars drawing) from about 300-1000 (depends on number of stars) to just 3 -> 5% performance increase (with 400 stars)

0.3.5
-	rearranged menu (separate Results tab, resizable window...)
-	added textures authenticity verification
-	added extra error checking
-	added console window

0.3.0
-	improved low-level routines, huge performance improvements (added clipping to stars code -> jumped from 48 fps to 72 fps and to meteors code - 3-10% fps increase in close view)

0.2.5
-	lots of improvements to error checking code
-	found a bug in Riva 128 3.37 Open-GL ICD (unable to set proper pixel format after selecting 8 or 32 bit software rendering) - added error checking, no workaround yet
-	menu now works perfectly
-	resolved bug that caused to slow down animation at very high frame-rates

0.2.2
-	lots of improvements to meteors code - finally got rid of this annoying "drizzle" bug - it should be smooth now!

0.2.0
-	no more command line only parameters! added menu to select resolution and mode (command line options still work - for hard-core users)

0.1.8
-	benchmark mode (2000 frames run)
-	resolved command-line parameters bug
-	screen saver is now disabled
-	some code improvements and bug fixes
-	added logo & other things

0.1.6
-	added keys to change Stars and Meteors number
-	added some authenticity verification data

0.1.4
-	results are now exported to Clipboard

0.0.1
-	start of the Stars project