[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Port of pingu

[From: Kuisma Salonen]

Hello,

I've formatted a harddrive some time ago (and don't have the files right 
now), but here's a little story:

I admit that pingus is a cool game (url is http://pingus.seul.org/ in 
case somebody does not know) so I have checked how it would port for 
770. I was able to compile the clanlib with some sourcecode 
modifications, but the shared object took more than 10 megs (ok, on MMC 
this is not that bad + I am not really sure whether it was stripped or 
not, most likely not). Next was building pingus itself. The problem was 
that pingus haven't been maintained properly for a loong loong time and 
it was written for older version of clanlib (which is source 
uncompatible with the one I managed to build).

Then began bigger hell: porting pingus itself. Since it was written for 
older incompatible version of clanlib I had to start porting it for the 
version i had (was 0.7.something). Even more awful, clanlib has some new 
architecture which requires more work. That was something I couldn't 
finish and it was halfway (or less) done. If (big _IF_) I manage to find 
the files from backups, I'll upload them somewhere in the case somebody 
would like to continue where I was left. And yes, I know this soulds 
little bit like a fish story ;)

Anyway, if you want to start from scratch, the path will be long. Plus I 
am not really sure of gained performance (the screen size is perfect for 
the game, but not really perfect for the performance). I have this 
little bad feeling that pingus tries to use page flipping (which works 
when HW supports such a feature, 770 won't support) so redraws are 
fullscreen, thus limiting the fps under 20 (+ with all the logic 
processing and internal draws it has to do it will be less).

But like I said in the beginning, porting clanlib is indeed possible.

-- Kuisma

ext Fred Lefévère-Laaoide wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking at porting pingu (this nice lemmings clone).
> It needs Clanlib & Clanllib needs X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h ...
> Any idea if I'm boarding a boat that will never touch a coast ???
> 
> Thanks
> Fred
> 
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