Re: The future of Ada is at risk

[Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>]

Surfer:

> Globe_3D is a real-time 3D engine, in Ada, based on OpenGL
> http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/g3d.htm
> 
> Includes:
> 
>     * Real-time 3D engine (pure software rendering) and game environment, from A to Z in Ada
>     * Full Ada sources including 3D models
>     * Drivers for 3D rendering, controls, timers, sound, ...
>     * Runs on PCs with DOS or DOS Virtual Machines - e.g. of Windows, Linux

Thank you for the advertisement! Still, you are mixing two distinct projects:

* GLOBE_3D, which runs natively, through a GL binding, on all platforms 
providing GL or OpenGL.

* Engine_3D, an older project now fossilized, which runs on DOS, without 
binding, and ignoring 3D hardware acceleration. The interest of that one is to 
show a game machine that is mostly in Ada, including parts of the operating 
system (e.g. keyboard, sound drivers).

Cheers
Gautier