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
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