Re: XWinAllegro library

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Sebastian Malcolm wrote:

>I have a friend who is developing quite a cool platfrom game called
>"Morphic Troopers".
>He is using DJGPP and (dos) Allegro and just got RHIDE to work too.
>
>I would like to know if anyone here has any tips/advice to give me before
>I embark on making his game _cross-compile_ between DOS & Linux.

I don't think this will be too difficult at least if you stick to Allegro
instead of writing your own hardware access code.

>NOTE: I am a total beginner at programming in C let alone X-windows
>programming.

If XAllegro is done right (I don't know it) you shouldn't have to care
about X at all...

>I think it may be a little too daunting for me to work on it now...

Do some simple (!) demos on both platforms to get used to C and the special
things in Linux/DOS first. IMHO starting such a big project without much
experience will be very hard.

>"There aren't any games for Linux"
>
>SO
>
>I proprose that there needs to be a "complete" listing of all games
>available for linux, catagorised into such things as Platform/Arcade,

Try the "Linux game tome" (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tlau/tome/)

>Stratergy, 3DKilling etc. This list/database thing needs to be a promenent
>link on as many Linux & non-Linux Web pages as possible - to reach the
>"masses".

Hmm, I don't think this list should be directly on such a site, but instead
some general Linux gaming site (e.g. www.linuxgames.com)...

Cu
	Christian
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