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Comments on Tuesday 2 September 2003:
Tsk. Bit of a temporary stumbling block in my production of Snowstorm; it turns out there is no easy way to do controls within a DirectX full-screen context, and even less so if you want your controls to look embedded rather than like a window shoved over the top of your nice display. So, it seems it's time to write a menu and configuration GUI from scratch. Probably not as annoying as it seems at the moment; it's just like programming for DOS. [11:50]

Solistus
Windows, ugh. At least write it for Linux so I can have a shot at porting it to OSX... or save me the effort and write it for X in the first place.

Yes, I know that's not gonna happen.... but it was a nice thought.

RavenBlack
Yes yes, sorry to be writing it for an operating system where it will have a significant potential audience.

Actually, it's being written somewhat portably, sufficiently abstracted that a port to X is not unfeasible. But not going to happen if there's no interest in it, which is quite possible - hard to predict the behaviour of a Tetris-flavoured game, and doubly so when it prefers a reasonably robust processor and graphics card.

Tom
From what I've heard, I suspect it'll run under Wine. So go and port Wine to OS X.

Solistus
"go and port Wine to OS X."
If I could do that, I'd sell it as shareware and make a bundle. Wine relies on the fact that it's run on an x86 machine. I'd be emulating an emulator... talk about a performance hit.

Stefano
What about the other robot game? There's a huge expectation for it!

Nik
Wine on MacOSX is already in progress. And 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'

RavenBlack
Which one, Robobeasts or the Robot Game? Robobeasts is on hold while I do Snowstorm (because I'm sick of databases). After Snowstorm, I'll be back to doing Robobeasts again. And then Robot Game. With possibly some short-movie-making interrupting this sequence at some point.

RavenBlack
Snowstorm being allowed to interrupt things because it's also functioning as an intermediate stage in the production of Robot Game.

Solistus
Porting Wine to X would require emulation.

I'll admit, Wine itself is not truely an emulator... but it would require one to run on X, which is the problem. If Wine did get ported and made freely (or cheaply) available to the public, it would be a huge benefit to the community- random util apps and lightweight games could be run- but it's unlikely that it would have any better hardware support than say, VPC (which is notoriously bad for video cards).

On a somewhat unrelated note, I want a G5.
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