Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:17:11 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), doconnor@gsoft.com.au, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Descent Sources Message-ID: <199801300747.SAA03442@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:36:24 -0800." <199801300736.XAA09217@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > 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 :) :) Yah, yah, yah. So I can't read. 8) Nothing there for reading the palette though (but I can kludge around that for now). > > - 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. ... but it doesn't arrange for the handler to be called every time the user hits a key. Actually, I don't know that Linux actually works that way either; oddly enough I can't find an svgalib manpage to tell me how the keyboard handler/keyboard_update() stuff works. > > - Possibly broken joystick support (I've never used the joy(4) driver > > before...). > > We have a joy dirver, should be easy... I know, and it compiles, I've just never used it so I don't know if it needs to be set up, or whether it has "sensible defaults". 8) > > 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... Sure; grab the patch again as I've just updated it. (Nothing earth-shattering in there, it's just the boring stuff you'd have to wade through otherwise before you got to the fun bits.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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