Annc: Starting a new lib atop SDL: libcrtxy

SDL Development
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I apparently can’t stop thinking about vector-line drawing
(I implemented some high-speed antialiased lines for cellphones a while
back that never panned out in any useful project at my last job, and
my eyes were full of vector games from the lates 70s and early 80s at
California Extreme in San Jose a couple weeks ago).

So, I’ve started a new little library, “CRT X-Y”, which is meant to allow
people to easily write games using little more than lines.
(Think: Asteroids, Star Wars arcade, Battlezone, Tempest, Star Castle, etc.)

CRT = Cathode Ray Tube
X-Y = the vector drawing style of Quadrascan, Amplifone, etc. monitors

I’ve spec’d out a bit of the API, and already have some code up at
SourceForge, as well as a mailing list. (All the code can do right now
is display a window with a background color :slight_smile: )

http://www.sf.net/projects/libcrtxy/

I welcome classic game geeks, graphics geeks, and OpenGL geeks to come help
out. I envision this thing running on the lowliest little handhelds
(ARM, no FPU, no accel’d graphics) while looking great on high-end systems
(via fast CPUs and SDL+OpenGL).

Thanks in advance,–
-bill!
“Tux Paint” - free children’s drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux!
Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/

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I’ve spec’d out a bit of the API, and already have some code up at
SourceForge, as well as a mailing list. (All the code can do right now
is display a window with a background color :slight_smile: )

And now it can draw lines, do sin/cos in fixed-point via look-up tables,
and that’s about it so far. But at this point, you can write a game
with it. :slight_smile:

I whipped together a page w/ a single screenshot of the test app, and
a bunch of ‘why am i doing this?’ info :slight_smile:

http://libcrtxy.sourceforge.net/

Feel free to sign up on the mailing list and say ‘hello’ if you’d like
to help out!

I’ll quit advertising on this list, until something substantial gets
released. :)On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:15:39AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:

–
-bill!
“Tux Paint” - free children’s drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux!
Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/