' Aren't viewers built with SDL for display? There's an SDL library for Android. OpenTTD is a C++ program built with SDL, and has an Android port which plays just the same. It has some extra UI options to facilitate use with a touchscreen and no keyboard. I don't know how much other work they had to do to port it.'
This would have been great except that this is not a simple UI problem that can be ticked off through a selection of UI options. Half of the optimization problem involves in world coding that does not touch the UI aspect. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:28 PM Ethan Gardener <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Ethan Gardener wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, at 1:29 PM, Haravikk wrote: > > > > > > There's also something to be said for privacy; a true virtual world is > > > so much more personal than games like Call of Duty, Fortnite etc., > > > you're not just dressing up the same basic player(s) that everyone > else > > > has, you're creating an avatar that *is* you, or an extension of you, > > > in a virtual world. Introducing another party into that pipeline > (other > > > than grid, sim and you) feels weird to me. > > > > I don't see the problem here. Even taking the simplest possible case: > > roleplaying or personal chat on IRC, the server and your local computer > > (which may have malware) are already handling lots of very personal > > expression. > > [I pressed the wrong key combination on my Twiddler & sent it before it > was done, sorry.] > > Apart from that one point, I've given up paying attention whenever any > corporation or blogger announces a "game changer" because there are so many > announcements and so very very few which make any real difference. I'd pay > a little more attention if I was in the biz, just in case it's got a > chance, but I've seen so much hype that the very words "game changer" no > longer brighten my day! (chuckling) A true game changer can only be > recognized in hind sight. Perhaps Google have got some sort of price drop > in the offing, but I don't see how they could bring it to everyone in the > same way that the price of remote storage was suddenly hugely cheaper when > AWS and GCS appeared. > > Taking a guess, I think this announcement is a political move against > certain US states with internet access worse than the third world and > effectively protected by law. If lots of companies jump on the streaming > bandwagon it will widen the gulf between states with reasonable and > unreasonable internet laws, increasing democratic pressure for change. > Until that change happens, a streaming service will be accessible to less > people, not more. > > Aren't viewers built with SDL for display? There's an SDL library for > Android. OpenTTD is a C++ program built with SDL, and has an Android port > which plays just the same. It has some extra UI options to facilitate use > with a touchscreen and no keyboard. I don't know how much other work they > had to do to port it. > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > -- 'Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin.' *Rameshsharma Ramloll* PhD, CEO CTO DeepSemaphore LLC, Landisville, PA; Affiliate *Research Associate Professor*, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 Tel: 208-240-0040 LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshramloll> _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
