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Mentore
Oct 18, 2013, 3:18:05 AM10/18/13
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Hello all.
Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
- IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
- I know for a fact that SDL gives BGR images instead of RGB if Panorama VESA is used, while the correct order is used if SNAP is installed. I wonder where one could add some code to check this and fix the byte order of the bitmaps (i.e. a command-line parameter which could tell SDL to change the bitmap byte ordering).
- I won't touch OpenGL, since we have a limited and software-only version. Though... Oh well.
- Did someone else experience crashes in launching an SDL application? I remember porting some simple SDL software and now I can't do it no more, if I don't bring up another (and much older) machine just for this job.
Thanks a lot.
Mentore
Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
- IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
- I know for a fact that SDL gives BGR images instead of RGB if Panorama VESA is used, while the correct order is used if SNAP is installed. I wonder where one could add some code to check this and fix the byte order of the bitmaps (i.e. a command-line parameter which could tell SDL to change the bitmap byte ordering).
- I won't touch OpenGL, since we have a limited and software-only version. Though... Oh well.
- Did someone else experience crashes in launching an SDL application? I remember porting some simple SDL software and now I can't do it no more, if I don't bring up another (and much older) machine just for this job.
Thanks a lot.
Mentore
Dave Yeo
Oct 18, 2013, 11:19:06 AM10/18/13
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Mentore wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
>
> - IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
I recently tried the latest 1.2.x with no joy. It built but wouldn't
> Hello all.
>
> Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
>
> - IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
initialize the video IIRC. Porting the recently released 2.x would
presumably harder. There is a GCC port at
http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/software/os2/#sdl
Mentore Siesto
Oct 20, 2013, 1:35:47 PM10/20/13
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Il giorno Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:19:06 UTC, Dave Yeo
<dave....@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Mentore wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
> >
> > - IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
>
> I recently tried the latest 1.2.x with no joy. It built but wouldn't
> initialize the video IIRC. Porting the recently released 2.x would
> presumably harder. There is a GCC port at
> http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/software/os2/#sdl
Thanks, Dave. I'll give it a try, but without much hope... Seeing my
eCS machine freeze so brutally doesn't make me happy, seems almost
like my Win7 machine at work :D
Mentore
<dave....@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Mentore wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.
> >
> > - IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?
>
> I recently tried the latest 1.2.x with no joy. It built but wouldn't
> initialize the video IIRC. Porting the recently released 2.x would
> presumably harder. There is a GCC port at
> http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/software/os2/#sdl
eCS machine freeze so brutally doesn't make me happy, seems almost
like my Win7 machine at work :D
Mentore
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