Can you run OpenGL 2.0 on modern machines?

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Published on 2012-06-19T17:56:45Z Indexed on 2012/06/19 21:25 UTC
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I'm looking to get into 3d with OpenGL, using SDL to help with other stuff.

I found plenty of good tutorials (lazyfoo is a big one), but "Learning Modern 3d Graphics Programming" uses a newer version of openGL that I'm not able to run!

I opened up OpenGL extensions viewer, and I can only run OpenGL 2.0, whereas most tutorials are in higher versions.

I ask this because I've heard that just about everything in 2.* got depreciated in the newer versions, so I'm worried that my code might not work.

I'm looking at a few other tutorials, but I'm so used to SDL that those just confuse me...

So should I bother trying to do graphics programming now, or should I just wait until I can upgrade my computer?

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