SDL News (April 28, 2002)

  • Sam Hart has written a great HOWTO on using SDL with KDevelop:
  • Civil, a multiplayer civil war strategy game written in Python, has been
    added to the games page.
  • TDFSB, a 3D virtual world for browsing your filesystem, has been added to
    the applications page.
  • The Word Matrix, a search for words in a random 4x4 matrix of letters,
    has been added to the games page.
  • Cube, a landscape style engine for first person shooter games, has been
    added to the libraries page.
  • glSDL, a proof of concept implementation of SDL on top of OpenGL, has been
    added to the libraries page.
  • Century of Three Kingdoms, the world’s first Bilingual Multiplayer Online
    Strategy Game has been added to the games page.

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Why? It’s a binary-only game which has binaries for Linux and Win32.
There is no source code, anywhere on the site. How can this be a useful
library?

It’s really a demo, possibly you could call it a game. A library though?On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:32:32PM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:

  • Cube, a landscape style engine for first person shooter games, has been
    added to the libraries page.


Joseph Carter Not many fishes

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I’d agree with this, except I know for a fact that the source to cube will
be released in the future under a BSD* license, not a *GPL license. It is
odd that it would be added to the libraries page ;>

-EvilTypeGuyOn Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 05:04:16PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:32:32PM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:

  • Cube, a landscape style engine for first person shooter games, has been
    added to the libraries page.

Why? It’s a binary-only game which has binaries for Linux and Win32.
There is no source code, anywhere on the site. How can this be a useful
library?

It’s really a demo, possibly you could call it a game. A library though?

Nice screenshots :slight_smile:
Joseph seems to be a CurmudgeonTypeGuy…

— EvilTypeGuy wrote:> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 05:04:16PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:32:32PM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:

  • Cube, a landscape style engine for first
    person shooter games, has been

added to the libraries page.

Why? It’s a binary-only game which has binaries
for Linux and Win32.
There is no source code, anywhere on the site.
How can this be a useful
library?

It’s really a demo, possibly you could call it a
game. A library though?

I’d agree with this, except I know for a fact that
the source to cube will
be released in the future under a BSD* license, not
a *GPL license. It is
odd that it would be added to the libraries page ;>

-EvilTypeGuy


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