Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

[Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@t-systems.cz>]

Wow, 1MB sourcecode within 12 years! ;-)

It should be rewriteable to ... say ... C within a few months.

(I prefer C rather than C++)



On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:06 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote:
> Purebasic is very fast. The generated assembler code kicks ass.
> And I can compile it for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
> 
> If I find a Open Source Basic Compiler that can do the task. I consider 
> rewriting it again.
> 
> We are programming this game since 12 years :-)
> The first Version we programmed on the Atari ST!  :-))
> There the language was calles STOS.
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:33 schrieb Frank Schafer:
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to
> > another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for
> > FSF game engines).
> >
> > Just a thought
> > Frank
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote:
> > > So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source.
> > > Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic
> > > programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand.
> > > Can't change that.
> > >
> > > Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled:
> > > > Markus Döbele wrote:
> > > > > I created a tar.gz Version of this game too.
> > > > > I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version
> > > > > of the compiler.
> > > > >
> > > > > What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages?
> > > > > Like Acrobat Reader?
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a big problem for this system?
> > > >
> > > > No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal
> > > > Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of
> > > > binary-only apps.
> > > >
> > > > But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some
> > > > rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...).
> > > >
> > > > It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small)
> > > > open-source app on a source-based system...
> > > >
> > > > Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using
> > > > a non-free (as in beer) compiler...
> > > >
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