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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa554b78fbc1aa13 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-27 11:48:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!opentransit.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <98104da8.0112270351.77f9f070@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:44:14 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.129.114 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1009482220 62.252.129.114 (Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:43:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:43:40 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18343 Date: 2001-12-27T19:44:14+00:00 List-Id: "Enrico A." wrote in message news:98104da8.0112270351.77f9f070@posting.google.com... > Hi, I'm Enrico,21 from Milan, Italy. > I have a simple question : > what do u think about developing a videogame using Ada ? If memory serves someone posted here a while back about doing a game in Ada. If your interested try http://groups.google.com/groups?q=game&hl=en&group=comp.lang.ada&scoring=d, it should provide all discussions of games in Ada. > what compiler do u suggest? Depends, GNAT is free (rather, there is a public version which is free and a commercial version which isn't) and works on a lot of platforms (Windows, Linux, various Unices, ...). There are more compilers at http://www.adapower.com under "links". If your using GNAT you have the following possible options for drawing stuff with (assuming of course it is a graphical game, and not a text [console] based game) , GWindows (Windows only, *at present*), OpenGL (Windows version comes with bindings, there used to be a binding independant of windows (and GNAT) but I don't know if that's still available), DirectX with GNATCOM and GWindows (Windows only), GtkAda (Various platforms, but GNAT only), ... (some more I can't remember) [info on most of these things can be found at adapower] For other compilers someone else will have to help. Chris