I got a Gumstix Overo Fire ARM development board running here, but I'm stranded on developing for it because the computer my data is on(my desktop) broke. OpenSceneGraph has beta support for OpenGL ES(which my board, iPhone(3G S onwards), PSP, PS3 and Wii(not sure about these, I saw that at wikipedia I think, it mentions an external reference, though) all support it. What I can see as a barrier is the lack of buttons in all platforms(AFAIK the PS3 supports USB keyboards but I was able to use an USB mouse with it, because I don't have an USB keyboard), porting/compiling to run on those platforms(ARM should be somewhat easier as it's little-endian, but it's much simpler than x86, so some registers may not be available, nor an equivalent, not sure about PowerPC(all current 7th-gen consoles) and MIPS(PSP). Original Xbox can run Linux, and it uses a standard x86 processor, but it has too little RAM(64 MB) and a weak graphics processor(based on the NVIDIA GeForce 3 series). PS3 has enough processor and graphics, but only 256 MB of RAM. iPhone has a limit of 128 MB of RAM for apps developed with the SDK that are to go to the App Store(also it's GPU isn't really powerful, obviously). My board runs Linux and has 256 MB of RAM, uses the same processor and graphics as the 3G S(ARM Cortex-A8 core at 600 MHz and PowerVR SGX, respectively), but a different system-on-a-chip(TI OMAP3530, iPhone 3G S uses a Samsung SoC). What makes the difference here is that my board doesn't run a cut-down OS, it runs full-blown Linux, including Xorg, and that its development tools are completely free(the iPhone SDK costs US$99/year, plus $99/year for the App Store I think, and I think PS3's is much more expensive). I'm willing to test FG on my board(I wanted to do so from the very beggining), but I'll warn you: my development system is broken(Ubuntu stopped booting after I moved my / to another HD, changed UUIDs in menu.lst and fstab, didn't work, also my partition seems to be corrupt), the screen has a resolution of only 480x272, and it has a resistive touchscreen. > Hey all, > > I was browsing through the app store today and noticed that x-plane > had an iPhone app. > > Being natural, I've been pondering the question if anyone has tried to > port FG to the iPhone and possibly consoles. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm not a genius on porting. But it seems like it > would be a great way to get people interested in FG as well as > possibly triple (iPhone, xbox, ps3) FG users. The only downside I see > to this is that the ported versions would have to be singleplayer > since the xbox uses dedicated servers and the ps3 uses one player as > the server. The iPhone portion is self explanatory. > > Like I said. Just a theory. Have searched the forums and nothing on > porting for consoles. Feel free to comment, add on, discredit, etc. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
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