Darren J Moffat wrote: > Jasse Jansson wrote: >> 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. > > I have a Sony PS2 to USB converter box, its been a while since I last > plugged that into a Solaris system to see what it sees. I'll try and > remember to do that soon and post what I find.
I hope it works. I'm I the only one thinking 'Guitar hero' guitar for Solaris, yay ;-) -- 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
