Re: [openttd-devel] Porting to BeOS

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The Linux port is as complete as the Windows port is. It works good for
the most part.

For graphics and sound, SDL is used, on Linux anyway. I think it's the
same on Windows but I'm not sure. Only for the music something different
is used. On Windows DirectMusic is used, on Linux a extmidi driver is use=
d
that uses an external program 'timidity'(which can easily be changed to
any other program) to play the music.

I'm not really sure but from what I've heard you really do need the
Windows version of TTD to use these files although it shouldn't be too
hard to make it work with the DOS-files. But TTD for Windows is less than
7 MB's anyway, when I zip it it's about 4 MB in size.

Good luck on porting!

Egbert van der Wal

> Hi,
>
> *alcoholics anonymous mode*
>
> My name is Cian and I'm a TTD Addict
>
> *end mode*
>
> I play TTD slightly too much, and keep FreeDOS installed solely for it.
> I don't use Windows and it doesn't work in DOSBox. So I'm looking into
> porting OpenTTD to BeOS R5.
>
> However, I'd be interested in knowing how complete the Linux port is
> first, and wheter is uses X11 (as the sourceforge site suggests) for
> video, or SDL. BeOS has both but SDL is a lot more native. I'd also
> like to know wheter the sound works on the Linux port, and again, if
> its ALSA or SDL. I don't have a DOS supported soundcard so this isn't
> an issue to me, as I never hear the sound, but others might expect it.
>
> I also don't own the Windows TTD - do you have to use its grf/cat files
> or can you use the DOS ones? I'm on 56K so downloading it will be
> painful. Download Subversion was painful enough as it was, and its only
> 7MB :-)
>
> Cian
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