SDL game on the web

Hello!

Earlier on this list I mentioned that I
was working on a game written in SDL.
It’s available now for free download
at:

Or:
http://www.vef3d.dk/

Thanks to all of those from this list
giving me help and hints!

Cheers–
http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

Hello!

Earlier on this list I mentioned that I
was working on a game written in SDL.
It’s available now for free download
at:
http://www.kokkeskolen.dk/

Or:
http://www.vef3d.dk/

Thanks to all of those from this list
giving me help and hints!

Cheers

http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

Anyone else know just exactly what link to follow to get to the game?
I can’t read whatever that language is.

Den 14 Jun 1999 skrev sdl at xdr.com:

Hello!

Earlier on this list I mentioned that I
was working on a game written in SDL.
It’s available now for free download
at:
http://www.kokkeskolen.dk/

Or:
http://www.vef3d.dk/

Thanks to all of those from this list
giving me help and hints!

Cheers

http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

Anyone else know just exactly what link to follow to get to the game?
I can’t read whatever that language is.

Click on the banner on the bottom of the page
of www.vef3d.dk. The game seems to be some kind
of a commercial, but since it’s a windows exe I
haven’t tried it out. The page’s danish, for those
interested ;). (Swede myself).

//Anders

“Dave Ashley (SDL list)” wrote:

Hello!

Earlier on this list I mentioned that I
was working on a game written in SDL.
It’s available now for free download
at:
http://www.kokkeskolen.dk/

Or:
http://www.vef3d.dk/

Thanks to all of those from this list
giving me help and hints!

Cheers

http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

Anyone else know just exactly what link to follow to get to the game?
I can’t read whatever that language is.I

I followed all the links last night. When I went to kokkeskolen.dk there
was a little button with a cowboy on the bottom right of the screen, but
clicking on that just started to download an .exe. I was hoping for
screenshots, sourcecode, binaries for different systems, etc. I don’t
use windows anymore so I just stopped the download.
None of the other links caused anything interesting to come up.

“Dave Ashley (SDL list)” wrote:

Anyone else know just exactly what link to follow to get to the game?
I can’t read whatever that language is.

One of these on the main page:
http://www.vef3d.dk/

Just click the “Billy The Kid” icon - you don’t
need to read anything else :slight_smile:

And it’s Danish - sorry :slight_smile:

Cheers–
http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

John Garrison wrote:

I followed all the links last night. When I went to kokkeskolen.dk there
was a little button with a cowboy on the bottom right of the screen, but
clicking on that just started to download an .exe. I was hoping for
screenshots, sourcecode, binaries for different systems, etc. I don’t
use windows anymore so I just stopped the download.
None of the other links caused anything interesting to come up.

It is just a binary for Win* - I offered them a free Linux
version too since that’s what I’ve been developing it
under, but they weren’t interested. And there’s no
source… and yes it is a commercial for Knorr…

I’ll try asking them again about that Linux version :slight_smile:

Cheers–
http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

It is just a binary for Win* - I offered them a free Linux
version too since that’s what I’ve been developing it
under, but they weren’t interested. And there’s no
source… and yes it is a commercial for Knorr…

I’ll try asking them again about that Linux version :slight_smile:

Please do! I mean, it’s SDL… it’s not like they’ll need to DO much
to get a Linux version out! :slight_smile:

-bill!
(Who also hates it when people REQUIRE Java to use their websites sites,
thus turning away millions of Windows 3.1, WebTV and AOL users. Lame lame
lame.)

ANOQ of the Sun wrote:

John Garrison wrote:

I followed all the links last night. When I went to kokkeskolen.dk there
was a little button with a cowboy on the bottom right of the screen, but
clicking on that just started to download an .exe. I was hoping for
screenshots, sourcecode, binaries for different systems, etc. I don’t
use windows anymore so I just stopped the download.
None of the other links caused anything interesting to come up.

It is just a binary for Win* - I offered them a free Linux
version too since that’s what I’ve been developing it
under, but they weren’t interested. And there’s no
source… and yes it is a commercial for Knorr…

I’ll try asking them again about that Linux version :slight_smile:

That’d be great, Why wouldn’t they want a FREE Linux version? I’ll never
understand why people won’t support Linux in cases like this when it would
cost them nothing! Make sure to tell them that by supporting linux they will
have about 12 million people appreciate them as somebody that actually cares
about their customers.>

Cheers

http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com

William Kendrick wrote:

(Who also hates it when people REQUIRE Java to use their websites sites,
thus turning away millions of Windows 3.1, WebTV and AOL users. Lame lame
lame.)

No great loss surely, in fact, that might make a great anti AOL user
filter! :slight_smile:
Daniel.

Daniel wrote:

William Kendrick wrote:

(Who also hates it when people REQUIRE Java to use their websites sites,
thus turning away millions of Windows 3.1, WebTV and AOL users. Lame lame
lame.)

No great loss surely, in fact, that might make a great anti AOL user
filter! :slight_smile:

WARNING Strong opinions below.

Well, I don’t know about AOL, they don’t bother me too much ( I don’t use them,
but…)
Any Windows 3.1 users out there that can’t afford to pay for the “Upgrade”
(Term used loosely) need to just download, borrow, copy, buy a REAL OS like
Linux or FreeBSD and quit worrying about having to dish out $90 or more every
couple of years.
WebTV sucks. M$ could have easily put Java into it, but decided that they would
use the less functional Windows CE and screw over their customers once again.
Anybody that buys such garbage doesn’t deserve to see the web. If you want
cheap internet access buy an iMac or an old i386 or something.
The people I feel sorry for are lynx users. I myself am quilty of not making
lynx compatible sites, but there is no better software for quick internet
access when you aren’t worried about graphics.>

Daniel.

John Garrison wrote:

WARNING Strong opinions below.

Any Windows 3.1 users out there that can’t afford to pay for the “Upgrade”
(Term used loosely) need to just download, borrow, copy, buy a REAL OS like
Linux or FreeBSD and quit worrying about having to dish out $90 or more every
couple of years.

Right on!
Daniel.

William Kendrick wrote:

(Who also hates it when people REQUIRE Java to use their websites sites,
thus turning away millions of Windows 3.1, WebTV and AOL users. Lame lame
lame.)

No great loss surely, in fact, that might make a great anti AOL user
filter! :slight_smile:

This is getting off topic. :slight_smile: But… AOL users spend money to use AOL
(of all things). They obviously have cash to spare. :slight_smile: …CUSTomers. :slight_smile:

PS - Sam, great talk today at our LUG! :slight_smile: Thanks!

-bill!

Comments. :slight_smile: Yes, AOL sucks. AOL users suck.
WebTV is lame, but it’s an extremely useful cheap, easy way to get on the
web. My parents are getting on in age, and are completely frightened of
the Mac we bought them (for like $1800) a few years ago.

Give 'em a $100 WebTV box, and they’re surfing and having fun. (My mom’s
stuck at home, btw.)

And yes, Lynx rules… it actually works, unlike Netscapes joke of an
app. (I’ve never seen my Linux box freeze until I tried doing a "Find in Page"
in Netscape )

-bill!

And yes, Lynx rules… it actually works, unlike Netscapes joke of an
app. (I’ve never seen my Linux box freeze until I tried doing a "Find in Page"
in Netscape )

-bill!

What the hell are you smoking? Er…I mean, what computer are you using? Linux
freezes up? Netscape freezes up during a “find in page search?”.Netscape is a joke
of an app? Geez, you gotta be running one ghetto-ass computer d00d.

Am I the only one that doesn’t suffer from these problems?

Paul Lowe
spazz at ulink.net

Paul Lowe wrote:

And yes, Lynx rules… it actually works, unlike Netscapes joke of an
app. (I’ve never seen my Linux box freeze until I tried doing a "Find in Page"
in Netscape )

-bill!

What the hell are you smoking? Er…I mean, what computer are you using? Linux
freezes up? Netscape freezes up during a “find in page search?”.Netscape is a joke
of an app? Geez, you gotta be running one ghetto-ass computer d00d.

Am I the only one that doesn’t suffer from these problems?

I’ve never had Netscape freeze my linux box from a “find in page”. Although just
yesterday while trying to use Composer to do a web page it caused a seg fault when I
tried to change colors for the page. Does it everytime, also if I try to put an image
in.
Now I’m doing my page mostly by hand and having too much fun. (my idea for a simple
page to get my point across turned into an excuse to spend all day playing with gimp
and writing HTML code. My sites are always far less simple when I write by hand.)
I’m putting up a website for the code I’ve been working on by the way. It’s a pity
I’m going to have a such a nice website for such crummy code, but I’ll save the story
of my crummy code for the day the website is online.>

Paul Lowe
spazz at ulink.net

What the hell are you smoking? Er…I mean, what computer are you using? Linux
freezes up? Netscape freezes up during a “find in page search?”.Netscape is a joke
of an app? Geez, you gotta be running one ghetto-ass computer d00d.

Am I the only one that doesn’t suffer from these problems?

Ugh… :slight_smile: This is not the place, I know, but these kind of rantings make
me feel better. :slight_smile:

CPU - P133
OS - RedHat 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.36)
Netscape - 4.5 and 4.6

Problems include:

Bad graphics rendering (chunks of whitespace thrown in… refresh or
scrolling down and then back up usually fixes it)

Form problems up the wazoo. (4.08(?) was insane!) For example, on some
forms, I fill out some text boxes, then I select from a pull-down menu.
All of a sudden, I can no longer type into any text boxes any more.
This is when I most often go to Lynx and fill out forms.

Random crashes. ie, something causes Netscape to simply disappear
(sometimes leaving zombie processes). I’ve found that some table
formats cause this.

Java woes. Tip: Leave Java OFF.

Command lind switch options (geometry mainly… I had to hack my .Xdefaults
to get NS to come up larger than 350 pixels wide, or whatever it’s
tiny width was)

Complete system freeze (dead mouse, can’t switch to different consoles, etc.)
when trying to “Find in page” on large pages.

Lame interface: Alt-H for “History”… buuut… there’s no History option
in any of the menus…? (This is mostly a nitpick.)

My day job is a webmaster, and in the Linux world, most useful info.
comes from websites, so, until Opera comes out (or I can get Arena
installed), I’m stuck with this piece of crap.

Perhaps we need an SDL port of Mozilla? >:^)

-bill!

What the hell are you smoking? Er…I mean, what computer are you using? Linux
freezes up? Netscape freezes up during a “find in page search?”.Netscape is a

Netscape is not well written. What other (Linux) options are there?
–lynx isn’t one of them…

Perhaps we need an SDL port of Mozilla? >:^)
Desperate attempt to make topic look relevent to list noted. :slight_smile:

Netscape is not well written. What other (Linux) options are there?
–lynx isn’t one of them…

Arena. Originally by the W3C. Now handled by some other company. Free.
I haven’t used it (I couldn’t get it to compile when I tried,
and I didn’t try very hard yet).

Amaya. The new official W3C browser/editor. Free.
I tried it. It’s not ready for general use yet. :slight_smile:

Opera. Coming soon. It’s being ported from Win32 (not just to Linux, but
to many other OSes).

Perhaps we need an SDL port of Mozilla? >:^)
Desperate attempt to make topic look relevent to list noted. :slight_smile:

Thank you! :slight_smile: Seriously, though, I wonder if that wouldn’t be a bad idea?
Another option as a platform independant browser?! It’d look the same
on all systems! Hmm! :slight_smile:

Sam, do you think SDL would be a bad choice for this?

-bill!

Daniel wrote:

What the hell are you smoking? Er…I mean, what computer are you using? Linux
freezes up? Netscape freezes up during a “find in page search?”.Netscape is a

Netscape is not well written. What other (Linux) options are there?
–lynx isn’t one of them…

Opera is coming out soon…supposedly. That is “supposed” to be the browser worth
paying for. I actually heard that from a review, not from…whoever the hell makes
Opera. Oh, well it’d be nice to see another choice of web browsers for linux, I mean
that is what Linux is about right. Choice. Not being stuck with Microsoft’s crappy
products. (Personally I think MS should stop producing that crummy OS and devote all
its time to games, Motocross Madness Rocks! Windows is the worst piece of crap ever,
and Coors light, Tequiza and Vodka in Kool-Aid don’t do too much for your spelling
and grammar, so forgive me for my mindless babbling)>

Perhaps we need an SDL port of Mozilla? >:^)
Desperate attempt to make topic look relevent to list noted. :slight_smile:

brig6320 at vinson.ecn.ou.edu wrote:

please tell me what this has to do with SDL

Ummm… Well. You see, Somebody from the SDL List made a coment on AOL not being
very good. Now if we had all ignored him then he would have fealt out of place.
He would have been all like “Damn them SDL people are a bunch of unfriendly
bastards” and he would have quit using SDL and started using ClanLib or XwinAllegro
or SVGALib or something horrendous like that and that wouldn’t be any good for SDL
because this guy would go on to create the next Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake combined
and become a multi-millionaire, and ClanLib, XwinAllegro or SVGALib would get all
the credit instead of SDL which would lead to the ultimate demise of the SDK and
leave poor old Sam, who is quite a wonderful and helpful man sad.
So you see I responded to this post for SDL and Sam .

But seriously, I think a more important purpose of a mailing list is to establish a
group of friends with a common interest. If we have to break the topic then it is
worth it, because we have developed not only a common bond, but a comradery. In
order for anything to thrive you need a tie that bonds that is based on more than
just work. That is why Linux kicks ass. Nobody is getting paid to do it. They do it
because they want to and because it is fun. Windows on the other hand is made by a
bunch of people that go to WORK. Come on, work sucks, nobody does as good at work as
they do at fun.

I am a newbie here so if I am wrong here please let me know and I will become as
rude and stuck up as this guy wants me to be.>

(Who also hates it when people REQUIRE Java to use their websites sites,
thus turning away millions of Windows 3.1, WebTV and AOL users. Lame lame
lame.)

No great loss surely, in fact, that might make a great anti AOL user
filter! :slight_smile:

WARNING Strong opinions below.

Well, I don’t know about AOL, they don’t bother me too much ( I don’t use them,
but…)
Any Windows 3.1 users out there that can’t afford to pay for the “Upgrade”
(Term used loosely) need to just download, borrow, copy, buy a REAL OS like
Linux or FreeBSD and quit worrying about having to dish out $90 or more every
couple of years.
WebTV sucks. M$ could have easily put Java into it, but decided that they would
use the less functional Windows CE and screw over their customers once again.
Anybody that buys such garbage doesn’t deserve to see the web. If you want
cheap internet access buy an iMac or an old i386 or something.
The people I feel sorry for are lynx users. I myself am quilty of not making
lynx compatible sites, but there is no better software for quick internet
access when you aren’t worried about graphics.

Daniel.