From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eda584a55fd880c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 10:38:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!newsfeeder.inwind.it!inwind.it!nntp.infostrada.it!news.infostrada.it!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC4AEB7.67D01D99@libero.it> From: Lorenzo Micheletto X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free Online Game project in Ada References: <3bc314b2$1@news.swissonline.ch> <3bc33d1b$1@news.swissonline.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:41:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.30.5.255 X-Complaints-To: abuse@libero.it X-Trace: news.infostrada.it 1002822071 151.30.5.255 (Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:41:11 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:41:11 MET DST Organization: [Infostrada] Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14302 Date: 2001-10-11T17:41:11+00:00 List-Id: Christophe wrote: > > The idea would be to create this on Linux, but it will be better to make an > OS-Independant game ... > > I know that Glade (which can access to MySQL) and Glut (OpenGL) can run on > windows... For the low_level_graphics/audio/game_input check SDL too (www.libSDL.org). It covers most of the basic needs and has lots of add-on modules. It is written in C (with some add-ons written in C++) but there is an Ada binding. SDL supports accelerated 2D and OpenGL, plus joystick/gamepad/mouse/keyboard IO routines, audio mixer for sound effects,"portable" timing and threads and "raw" cd-rom support (to play audio tracks directly from cdrom) plus other useful things. It runs on Windows, Linux, OS/2, Beos and there is a Playstation II port in progress. L. Micheletto