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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OpenGL in Ada
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:13:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Ludovic Brenta expounded in
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> Warren wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> There is the SDL project:http://www.libsdl.org/libraries.php
>> available for portable game writing. �Something like that in
>> Ada form would be very useful. This is a big project, to be
>> sure, but Ada tasking and games seem like a natural fit
>> to me. I'd be interested in developing some games with this
>> kind of framework.
> 
> There exists an Ada binding: http://sourceforge.net/projects/adasdl/

Well that is cool. Thanks for the pointer.

> Several years ago I started rewroting Defendguin in Ada with this
> binding, see
> 
> http://green.ada-france.org:8081/branch/changes/org.ludovic-brenta.defe
> ndguin 
> 
> IIUC, it is possible to do OpenGL from within, or in conjunction with,
> SDL, as most OpenGL games I know of also use SDL. I never tried.

I'll definitely have to check that out. Now if I can only
get my current project workload out of the way. ;-)

Warren