Doug Scott wrote: > Hey, > I thought I would put together a list of what is missing on Open Solaris > for games. > > * Good Sound Subsystem > Hopefully the speculation is true and OSS will be include in Solaris > Express. You can download and install OSS from the http://www.opensound.com > website. Unfortunately though, libraries currently delivered (such as libSDL) > are not built with OSS turned on. > > * Joystick driver > I am currently looking at building a USB driver. Since USB joysticks come > under the USB HID specification, they have a nice standard interface that > makes a driver relatively easy to build. I will go into more detail in > another post. Do people use anything other than USB for joysticks today? I > broke all of my atari and amiga controllers long ago!
YES, please. Those devices will be mighty useful. BTW, I have an old gamepad with serial inteface, but it might be a collectors item in a few years, so I don't think it's worth the hassle to support'em. > * Games Libraries > The most widely library that games use is libSDL. Luckily this currently > is supported on Solaris and works very well. There are many other libraries > which need to be ported. It would be nice to make a list of the missing and > what game requires them. > > Anything more??? > Doug > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > games-discuss mailing list > games-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/games-discuss > > -- Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. Go the SPARC way of life 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
