Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 20:56 UTC, submitted by Michael
The folks over at Phoronix had an interesting interview with Linux game porter, Frank Earl. Despite the apparent decline in PC gaming, Earl has worked for Linux Game Publishing for several years and was seeking input from the community at large for game suggestions at Phoronix. He's also done work independently on porting various software over from Windows. The interview covers work that Earl has done, difficulties that arise in porting commercial games to Linux, successes they've had, his views on Linux in general, and his thoughts on the future of gaming in Linux.
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If you check the mailing lists, you will see that lots of work is being put into the 1.3 release. This is going to be a major rewrite of SDL's internals, hence the slow development.
That's great to know. I was considering it for a demo, but I didn't want to cope with a dead project. However, 18 months since the last release is a lot of time in software; perhaps they should give more news, as few people are reading mailing lists...
What do you mean? Unless mistaken, most 2D operations can be made in 3D. Therefore, they should be already accelerated? The only unaccelerated operation that comes to my mind is direct pixel update, like playing a movie. Still, you could use textures and PBO/FBO to make it faster than, say, a glDrawPixel() call.