From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Ada for Game programming
Date: 1998/06/21
Date: 1998-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Euw9M1.59@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 358BEDCD.516A09FF@cl.cam.ac.uk
Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: The Ada teaching community should put together a simple kit of Ada
: packages for game programming in introductory programming classes.
: This package should provide the following functionality:
: - user interface (keyboard, mouse, and joystick query)
: - graphics (procedures for loading bitmaps from files and for
: moving bitmaps efficiently around in memory, including masked
: bitblt operations)
: - sound (procedures for loading sound files into memory and
: playing them over the audio output)
: - one or two small excellently structured and documents
: example games that show how the library is used
Which platform would you aim at ? Win32, DOS, Unix, ... ?
Jerry.
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-- Jerry van Dijk | email: jdijk@acm.org
-- Leiden, Holland | member Team-Ada
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1998-06-20 0:00 ` Buffering inputted characters Joel VanLaven
1998-06-20 0:00 ` Ada for Game programming Markus Kuhn
1998-06-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-06-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-06-20 0:00 ` Buffering inputted characters Markus Kuhn
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1998-06-21 0:00 ` Thanks - now another query Markus Kuhn
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