Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 11th Aug 2002 18:43 UTC
If there are two individuals in the Linux game scene today that they brought a lot and very good Free games to all Linux users, these should be Michael Speck of LGames and Bill Kendrick of NewBreedSoftware. Their games have been played not only by Linux users, but by users on all major platforms via the portability of the SDL game library. Today, we interview Michael Speck, regarding his games, his opinions about the Linux game market, about Linux's performance as a multimedia platform, his future plans and much more.
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" I found installing SDL (and other things a F/X-enriched file manager demanded) way too difficult (in fact, I gave up)."
What?! Are you using windows? If so all you do is drop the .dlls in the windows/system directory, come on that isnt that hard! I can give you step by step instructions if you need them. Seems pretty simple to me..
"I tried first SDL, but found actually ClanLib *ALOT* easier to compile under Windows than SDL."
Well SDL has precompiled .dlls, unlike clanlib. I tried clanlib and gave up.. why should we be _required_ to compile ANY DLL?! First off its not compatible with every compiler, second its a pointless step.
When you distribute the game/demo are you going to make the home users compile your clanlib DLL before playing?! hehehe
Compiling the DLL shouldnt even be an issue, USING it is the real issue here, and to me clanlib seems much more complicated than SDL, you might as well just use DirectX!
SDL is great, now I dont even look at ClanLib or DirectX..
(Except for porting to SDL) ;D
"As things stand, 3D gaming on Linux will never take off big-time!"
Why not? Linux users cant go out and buy a 3D card like everyone else?! Wont SDL and opengl code run on Linux if they have a card installed? Is it really THAT complicated to install a 3d card on a linux machine?... if so, thats sad, and its no wonder why there are so many(too many) windows users..(hmm, should I pick plug and play, or 50 pages of complicated instructions, yea..)