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From: "Ronald Lamprecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pipeline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Tacvek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Maemo Port for Nokia Internet Tablets
Not sure if this will roll up correctly, but here goes. There are responses
here to both Ronald and Tacvec.
We do like ports of Enigma to new platforms. A good communication between
the various developer helps to align the releases. E.g. your version
numbering of Enigma 1.2.4 may confuse users that use Enigma on other
platforms. I would have prefered if the Enigma version that a Maemo port
is based on would be part of the Maemo version number.
Yes i've starting doing this for other ports and agree this is needed. I'll
make sure to align version numbers in future builds.
Well, with that userbase it does indeed sound like we will
want to merge in the port, so that it remains up to date.
Do you have any sort of CVS or SVN repository containing the latest
development? (As a C# programmer, i would not be surprised if you
did not, as version control systems are less common on Windows
than they should be)
Tacvek guessed correctly, most of my (windows) code is in windows based
source control and i have not established any version control for linux
ports other than tar.gz uploads to http server.
Rather than introduce noise to enigma dev signal, i managed to get the
latest trunk of 1.10 (compatibility branch?). First off, wow! The
performance improvements are great. For example Enigma 1 - Security Guards
levels was unplayable (probably 1 fps) on 1.01 source, however now it is as
smooth as i could hope for. I have noticed similar smoothness in gameplay
throughout all the levels. Great work!
I reapplied the most crucial changes which are very simple now that i dont
even need to remove world collision animations.
There are two areas i needed to modify, the SDL_MOUSEMOVE event logic in
order to respond correctly to touchscreen input,
and the hardcoded key bindings. Maemo has hardware buttons which are
equivalent to ENTER, ESC, F4, F6, F7, and F8.
Heres my first attempt at a diff file, which i manually cleaned up so i hope
its machine readable, otherwise its human readable. Perhaps you can
integrate the global variables through some sort of build configuration.
ftp://wardenclyffetower.com/wwwroot/MaemoFiles/source/enigma_maemo_mods.diff
The upcoming Enigma 1.10 release is much faster than 1.0*. Especially
levels with many actors will speedup by a factor of 5 to 10! I would
expect nearly all levels to run on current cpu's without any code changes.
As I mentioned above I am more than happy with the speed! This does in fact
seem to make 100% of the levels playable. This will require extensive
playtesting which i am more than happy to help out with :)
Is there any timeframe in mind for when an official 1.10 release will occur?
Also is it considered bad practice for downstream developers to release
builds based on svn developmental builds? If this varies by project, what
is enigma dev policy on this? Since the performance improvements are so
great it will be tempting to get it out in the 'wild'.
So thanks again Enigma Devs (especially Ronald Lamprecht)
for the game... truly - First Class -
Don't forget Daniel Heck (The original author, although no longer the
primary developer).
Indeed - and all the other developers and contributers!
Yes, thanks to Daniel Heck and all the level designers... there is much
personality in the game and level design, and it really draws you in to see
what nefarious devices are in store for poor blackball next :)
Indeed, altough the mouse movement patch would probably still apply
in new revisions. I suspect it may even apply genererally, as
other computers have similar interfaces (touch screens for example).
Amazing to see versatility of linux wherein a single (worldwide)
managed codebase could support such a broad range of devices.
Indeed. This is probably one of the best features of the GNU/Linux
system.
Portability has always been a major concern in the development, resulting
in tools
like the autoconf/automake tools, and generally highly portable code.
I hope the simple changes i submitted above are of use upstream. It would
allow maemo compatibility via basic touchscreen and 4:3 use on maemo. Till's
tilt modifications and or true widescreen modifications would be separate
and in addition to something like this.
Thanks again, let me know if you need anything else.
Dave-
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