[Plib-devel] TuxKart on Win32 works fine

[Vallevand, M. K <Mar...@UN...>]

I ported TuxKart to Win32 last night.  It was pretty easy.  It
is very runable at 640x480 with accelerated OpenGL on a P2-333.

I found a bunch of typical unix-isms and window-isms in the code.
This is a common one that doesn't work in windows:

for ( int i = 0; i < foo; i++ ) blah();
for ( int i = 0; i < foo; i++ ) moreblah();

There were some header file adjustments, and some system functions
that have different names, eg access() and chdir().

The GLUT game mode doesn't work as advertised on my system, so I
hacked it to run in a window like non-win32 systems.  I want to
investigate this more.  It *should* work.

Also, the joystick code misbehaves if you have a broken joystick
driver.  My WinNT joystick driver stopped reporting buttons.  All
buttons are set.  It might be the port HW.  I tried other sticks.
Anyway, after unplugging the joystick, everything works fine.

I'll clean up my changes and put them, a DevStudio workspace and
project, and an executable Win32 Tuxkart on a website later.  Maybe
tonight or this weekend.

Thanks Steve and Oliver.  I have some neat ideas for TuxKart.

Regards.
Mark K Vallevand   ma...@rs...
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