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Subject: Re: Descent Sources
In-Reply-To: <199801300653.RAA02694@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 30, 98 05:23:42 pm"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > Hi,
> > It appears someone has managed to compile Descent under Linux using the Mac C 
> > source in place of the assembly :)
> > Check out 'http://www.muppetlabs.com/linux/descent/' for the patches.
> 
> I've put a trivial patch to the ldescent-0.0.1 release above at
> ftp://ftp.gsoft.com.au/misc/bdescent.diff.gz
> 
> This is enough to get it compiled under -current; I don't expect that 
> it will run.  Outstanding issues (before we get to the point the Linux 
> people are at):
> 
>  - No palette support (Soren, libvgl has no documented palette handling 
>    functions!)

man vgl :) :)

     void VGLSetPalette(byte *red, byte *green, byte *blue)

It isn't there ???

>  - No keyboard support. (The Linux svgalib seems to support calling a 
>    user-supplied keyboard handler on interrupt.  This is unspeakably 
>    bogus if true.)

Many things in l* are bogus :), I think you should use the semi
translated mode K_CODE, this gives nice onebyte values for each
key, and gives both up and down events.

>  - Possibly broken joystick support (I've never used the joy(4) driver 
>    before...).

We have a joy dirver, should be easy...

> Just FYA; note there are lots of unaddressed issues with the remainder 
> of the code (the warning:code ratio is alarmingly high).

Well, I'll have to sit around makeing install tapes today, so I might
be able to take a look...

						Søren