With, i do some game development myself, you guys might be interested in SDL, its a cross platform multimedia library. SDL stands for "simple direct media layer" and supports just about every OS under the sun: "Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS Classic, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, and IRIX". Its basicly a thin wrapper to whatever graphics interface is available on the OS. For instance, in linux/unix/bsd it can use X or frame buffer, and in windows it uses directx. You can write a game on one platform and easily compile it on any of the other supported platforms. In fact, the hardest thing about compiling it for the other platforms is making a makefile for that OS since makefiles vary widely from OS to OS.
its real cool and im real happy w/ it, i think you guys could be as well. http://www.libsdl.org/index.php PS it is open sourced and released under the GNU LGPL so it doesnt incur any extra monetary overhead to use it commercialy (: ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Johansen To: 'WiTango List' Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: Witango-Talk: Announcement - Witango new direction Note: Please read all of this email Exciting News!!! In order to get Witango into the mindset of the youth and with the explosion in game units from Microsoft, Nintendo. With is pleased to annouce that Witango 6 will be able to run on the following new platforms Microsoft's X-Box Nintendo 64 and GameCube Pro's Modular = Plug in or CD Secure = System in rom and incoruptable New tags <@WHICHCONTROLLER> = this tag will allow you to determine who is in control <@INTERACT> = this tag will allow you to interact with games and control character throught predefined moves in the database. This tag will allow the individual to totally program the game actions and just sit back and eat cheetos without even have to do anything but turn on the unit <@HACK WHERE=Parent Office|School> = this tag has been long awaited and student will be lining up for mile to this on And Much more. APRIL FOOLS J ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
