| From: | David Marshman |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 00:13:39 |
| Subject: | Re: AW: AMIOPEN: Games |
Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> Hi,.
>
> > I'm AMI'less for the next couple of weeks, but as soon as I get back home I
> > plan on having a go at porting libSDL. I'm probably most comfortable doing
> > the Gfx parts - does anyone fancy helping with threads/system parts.
>
> (IIRC) Gary said that amiga were developing a gameing interface/api, it might
> be
> worth holding off untill a beta of that appears, then i would like to help
> writing
> some kind of wraper/abstraction layer to that. Just to cut down the amount of
> work.
Yep, I've no problems with that approach - let's see when the first update for
the SDK appears ;-)
I totally agree that there's a whole bunck of API's that need to be defined
before "serious" apps can be written (by serious, I mean in terms of performance
& features (i.e. games), not usage).
>
> > I'll be happy to host a development site in, say, 3 weeks, if anyone else
> > would like to contribute....
>
> why waste your bandwidth when amiga will host it (cvs) ?
>
I agree totally - my previous message was a bit vague.
I was thinking more along the lines of a status page(s), with links to the CVS, a
snapshot to the latest binary, some apps which compile on AMI, etc....
---
David
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