Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Gaming Interface | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:47:28 +0000 |
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On Monday 08 January 2007 13:04, Dirk wrote: > But I don't see top titles ported to SDL/OpenGL.
This is because you're not looking very hard. If you look at Ryan's ports over at http://icculus.org/ many of the games (some he's _paid_ to port) use SDL statically linked in. There's no legal or technical problem with this.
Really, what you're talking about already exists. If anything, you need to convince the SDL guys (not the kernel guys) to make SDL more comprehensive OR write your own multimedia library, perhaps based on or backending to SDL.
As noted elsewhere in this thread, most games use 3D hardware exclusively, and only really care about the OS for initialising a video mode and playing sound.
Most ports probably suffer the worst from the lack of DirectX APIs on Linux, something which the WINE project is trying to solve. Using libwine, one will eventually be able to write native Linux applications that use the DirectX APIs. Porting should then be very much easier.
Of course, vendors using OpenGL gain Macintosh portability amongst other things, and most of the really big titles do have OpenGL render modes, which are already largely portable.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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