Its purebasic , not powerbuilder. And the reason why people use it, is because you can compile your games for windows, linux and mac. I dont think this is going to change.
The other version we have is in blitzbasic. Which only exists for windows. So I invested a lot of time to rewrite it for a compiler that exists for Linux. I can't see a reason not to play this little game. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 19:41 schrieb John Dangler: > Just my .02 worth - anything for *nix with the word basic in it makes me > shudder... > the only other package I know of that used .pb extensions was powerbuilder. > at one time, it had a lot of promising features, but after being bought > twice and totally commercialized, it turned into another Symantec and their > *nix and mac development went out the window... > > John D > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matan Peled [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth > > Christoph Gysin wrote: > > This is bad. Opensource software shouldn't depend on commercial stuff. > > Agreed, I'm not really willing to spend my time on a 'semi-opensource' app > either. > > Writing an ebuild for a binary app isn't all that hard, and it might be > accepted > into portage (Other binary games have been accepted, after all). > > Good luck, Markus. > > -- > [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled ] > [Location ] :: [Israel ] > [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5 ] > [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] > encrypted/signed plain text preferred > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
