On Wednesday 07 June 2006 15:42, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 6/7/06, Kin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The last time I played with a game was several decades ago, so my > > knowledge in this area is rather shallow. > > > > Has anyone had any experience with game development engines (open > > source) in Linux? > > > > I saw one on google that was RPG. Are the RPG ones more prevalent? > > Does anyone have any leads to information I ought to be reading up on -- > > looking to understand enough to determine possibilities. > > This probably isn't what you are looking for, but your email reminded > me of something. > > I had heard of a portable, handheld, gaming device that ran Linux that > was made in Korea around a year ago. They were coming out with a new > version in a few months, but I forgot about it until now. I was > meaning to buy one (and I just did right now... I can't wait!) but it > slipped my mind. The LCD on my iPAQ just broke (note to self: hard > shelled case next time...) and I was looking for something else to > play the odd game and song on. At the same time, I wanted something I > could hack around with (I used to do graphics demos as a kid,) and > this device looks like it will satisfy my needs. > > The link for those who are interested: > http://gp2x.co.uk/aboutgp2x.html > > It does have a development kit, but I don't know what it entails yet, > nor do I think this was what you were looking for. I guess I'll see > in a few days its worth the $270 or not :-)
Awwww, <expletive of choice here>! I just bought a new iPAQ about 3-4 weeks ago. Let me know how this thing fares for fun and hacking, I might have an iPAQ for sale. ;-) Curtis S. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
