Stellar Flames

bort · Post by **bort** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:22 am

Dude, I just played the demo of Stellar Flames for the Zaurus (works also in regular color PDAs too), and I was amazed by the SDL visual programming. The methods were fantastic, and it does open up the prospect that ?perhaps? you can 3d'ize Cf, at least to beta.

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:31 pm

I think maybe more interestingly, it might mean that cf could be ported to pdas.

Anyone know how to compile software for them?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:56 pm

kick ...

soon ill be able to do some 1337ass gaming on my cell phone. w00t!

the screen will be damn liminting though, and a hell of a lot of lag....

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:06 pm

Well myself and bort were talking about pdas because mobile phones are crap.

On a pda though, I suspect that if you had a c compiler, and X, gtk2, pango & libgdk then it might just compile. (bar a few errors here and there).

The client would need reworking to cope with such a small resolution, however. This might be doable, I believe freeciv has already been ported to the zaurus, it is just a matter of finding someone who wants and is able to do it.

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:37 am

Heh. I find crossfire difficult to use at anything lower than 1280x1024 res

But I like 1280x1024 best anyways

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:55 am

I find anything less than 2300-ishx1024 intolerable, but then I use split window mode across two monitors.

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:18 am

i'm rather happy with 1400x1050, though more would be better

i wont mind to add a 17" tft with a good resolution (not a crappy 1280x1024 but rather 1600x1200)

on topic: sadly i dont have a pda or anything remotely similar (a ti-83 calculator wont count, i assume)

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:59 pm

come on, its everyones dreams to play cf on their graphing calculators... with a network cable, and a cellphone...

bort · Post by **bort** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:25 am

ON PDA's, some use the QT engine, qtopia. And if you really want to see an example of mobile gaming in a cf-like enviroment, look at the Wyvern client. If people can port it to Qtopia, java, etc,. The look could be condensed..

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:30 am

Qtopia is a varient of Qt, no?

I don't think there are many Qt coders working on crossfire, it uses gtk extensively.

Besides which Qt is normally written in C++ crossfire is in C.