I used it for a game I wrote. It makes Threading, CDRoms, Joysticks, Keyboards, and graphics sooooo easy.
If you're using SDL for games, you should also look into: NET2 - Fast Networking for SDLNet for multiplayer game programming. It basically has a separate thread that polls for Network traffic on your sockets and pushes events to your event queue. He even extends SDL events to be thread safe and FASTER.
SDL rocks.
Yeah. It's interesting how people rely so much on the PeerGuardian database, which has to be discovered. What happens when the RIAA buys more IP blocks?:/
No...around 85 million people in Germany. They just happen to use ICQ a lot. When I was over there in 2001, they were just discovering it and asked me "hey...have you seen this cool new program?". I laughed, having used it since 1998.
I was a trillian user for two years and have now been a Gaim user for a year. The only thing that would change for me is the number of sockets that my computer would maintain.
I wonder if this movement would also spark a movement toward disabling 3rd-party clients. That would NOT be good.
I totally agree that great games have come from other engines.
My point (sorry it wasn't clear) was that they focus on the engine and then let other people worry about the gameplay. That's why the unreal games are lame.
Speaking of Unreal-based games, how about that Duke Nukem Forever game:D
Yeah. UT2004 at least had vehicles, but I've been using those on Battlefield 1942 for almost two years now. Show me new gameplay, and I'll consider buying one of the new games. I'm just sick of the same old FPS crap. Deathmatch is dead.
I bet Epic and ID Software are making these new engines just to license them to other companies.
Gaim does a really great job of emulating Windows XP. It looks similar to my other applications. Now if they'd only fix a couple of the annoying GTK bugs (not GAIM's fault).
I like Mozilla as a browser and as an email application. Desktop....hmmm
I don't mind using C/C++ widgets. Once you learn how to do it, it isn't that hard.
I thought tha people didn't like when a browser became the desktop environment. IE anybody?
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Did you happen to figure out where the extra .2 seconds was made up inside the code? Wait-states?
Try the gaim encryption plugin. It sounds like you had the same problem I did.
Get it from here
I've been using these two for 1.5 years, after switching from trillian (2 years)
I used it for a game I wrote. It makes Threading, CDRoms, Joysticks, Keyboards, and graphics sooooo easy.
If you're using SDL for games, you should also look into:
NET2 - Fast Networking for SDLNet for multiplayer game programming. It basically has a separate thread that polls for Network traffic on your sockets and pushes events to your event queue. He even extends SDL events to be thread safe and FASTER.
SDL rocks.
I guess we need to go after Google then. :)
Yeah. It's interesting how people rely so much on the PeerGuardian database, which has to be discovered. What happens when the RIAA buys more IP blocks? :/
Some would argue that C# came first. Those people work for Microsoft :)
I'm actually really surprised that more people didn't see this coming. Do X-Box games run in user space or as the kernel?
Outstanding compression
Amen to that. I'm guilty of this too, and I'll do it again.
:)
You learn so much from doing partial projects. This time around, I learned:
LibSDL, SDL_Net, SDL_Console, and INI_Parser.
Granted, I don't have a product to give away, but I just made the game for myself anyway
Not the protocol, the 3rd-party clients. I don't use AOL's clients to connect to AOL's network.
No...around 85 million people in Germany. They just happen to use ICQ a lot. When I was over there in 2001, they were just discovering it and asked me "hey...have you seen this cool new program?". I laughed, having used it since 1998.
ICQ is very popular among German youth. Last I saw, their registration numbers were past 250,000,000. I'm still using my 3,000,000 number ;)
"These people look deep into my soul and assign me a number based upon the order in which I joined"
- Homer Simpson
I was a trillian user for two years and have now been a Gaim user for a year. The only thing that would change for me is the number of sockets that my computer would maintain.
I wonder if this movement would also spark a movement toward disabling 3rd-party clients. That would NOT be good.
Trillian
Gaim
I'm getting our photo CD and the rights to the photos for $250 for my wedding.
Ahhh....a Slashdot link to a 7.3 MB PDF document. This should be a wild ride on the Denial of Service express.
I totally agree that great games have come from other engines. :D
My point (sorry it wasn't clear) was that they focus on the engine and then let other people worry about the gameplay. That's why the unreal games are lame.
Speaking of Unreal-based games, how about that Duke Nukem Forever game
Yeah. UT2004 at least had vehicles, but I've been using those on Battlefield 1942 for almost two years now. Show me new gameplay, and I'll consider buying one of the new games. I'm just sick of the same old FPS crap. Deathmatch is dead.
I bet Epic and ID Software are making these new engines just to license them to other companies.
I use LibSDL because I want to do more than just sound in a cross-platform application. Did you consider using SDL for sound before you chose OpenAL?
It took me a minute to get the Steve Balmer monkey-man reference.
You'd better call it something else to avoid copyright infringement.
I'd call it "Mickey and Pluto go to Donald's House"
The problem with stealth ships on the sea is that they leave a blank spot on the radar where there should be echos for the waves.
Um.....does IPv6 matter in this equation? TCP will just sit on top of IPv6 anyway.
> T CP
IP4
TCP->IP->Ethernet->Wire->Ethernet->IP->TC P
IP6
TCP->IPv6->Ethernet->Wire->Ethernet->IPv6-
Hmmmm....
Gaim does a really great job of emulating Windows XP. It looks similar to my other applications. Now if they'd only fix a couple of the annoying GTK bugs (not GAIM's fault).
I like Mozilla as a browser and as an email application. Desktop....hmmm I don't mind using C/C++ widgets. Once you learn how to do it, it isn't that hard. I thought tha people didn't like when a browser became the desktop environment. IE anybody?
What's wrong with having #ifdef, #define or some other kind of compile directive?
I don't like adding extra login to my programs in hudreds of places.