My AAlib driver for SDL is now commited in the 1.1 devel branch. Here is a
brief summary of what this is all about :
-
The driver needs to be enabled explicitly at compile time, using the
–enable-video-aalib flag for configure ; you need to have aalib installed on
your system already. Red Hat has some precompiled packages in its Powertools
section. -
SDL will resort to AAlib display after X11, fbcon and sometimes SVGAlib
fails, depending on what was compiled in. AAlib should always be able to
display something, so you can force it by setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER to ‘aalib’.
It opens a new window in X11. Resizing the window is supported. -
The driver has full input support, i.e. mouse and keyboard, even on the
console (using ncurses and gpm). Of course mouse is not supported when in a
telnet session or the like… -
You can pass additional options to AAlib using the AAOPTS environment
variable (I did not try that yet myself)
Overall this is very exciting and funny. You can watch movies with plaympeg, and
the next patch releases of Heroes3 and Myth2 will have builtin (and unsupported)
support for it :-)–
Stephane Peter
Programmer
Loki Entertainment Software
“Microsoft has done to computers what McDonald’s has done to gastronomy”
