Re: [Plib-devel] TuxKart on Win32 works fine

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Vallevand, Mark K" wrote:
> 
> 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();

Well, it *does* work in Windoze - it just doesn't work with MSVC++.
CygWin has no problems with it.

If you'd care to post your fixes to a web site somewhere - I'll
merge them into the current stuff.  Alternatively, if you'd like
CVS access - let me know what your sourceforge userid is and I'll
"make it so".

> 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.

Yes - I'm not too sure about that code - it doesn't work
well on all Linux systems either.

> 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.

That's strange - the joystick code is just PLIB - and that's
reported to work OK for FGFS and Tux_AQFH under Windoze.

Does the PLIB joystick test program exhibit the same symptoms?
 
> 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.

OK.

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