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  • 6 Jan, 2008
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  Well in all seriousness we will be looking at Linux ports, that's the logical next step once we have a runtime running SDL. And I guess you're right, much better to have it running natively than through emulators. That's not a trivial thing to achieve though so it may wait until after 1.0 - there may be significant changes to the runtime before then, anyway, and having multiple platforms to maintain would make this an extra burden of work.

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  The Apple IIe runtime will be done right after the runtime for Toasters and Microwaves.

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  • 6 Jan, 2008
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  andla, what happens when you try to run it?

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  • 5 Jan, 2008
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  Hey, nice game <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> love anything uses physics, I'm rubbish and can't beat level 1 though <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" />

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  I haven't received anything in my email to do with this yet. ashley@scirra.com

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  Yes, you'd use the Physics movement on some objects and then hinge them together in a Start of Layout event.

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  • 5 Jan, 2008
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  Woops, made a mistake in the code for that... it's fixed in 0.9!

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  • 5 Jan, 2008
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  Yikes, we've fixed some layout problems that sound like this in 0.9. Hopefully this won't happen again. Sorry.

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  OK, its on the todo list <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

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  Hahaha! Umm... writing a new display engine is a pretty big job, even just the SDL runtime is lots of work. Then OpenGL will be all that work again. Then getting OpenGL to run the effects engine, including restructuring effects in a language OpenGL understands, is a lot of work too. All our effects at the moment are written in HLSL, which is DirectX's shader language (OpenGL uses GLSL).

  But it'd still be funny to see that pic <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Hmm, not yet, someone would have to write a plugin for it. Want me to add it to my todo list? It'd have to wait till after the 1.0 release though, because it's a nontrivial feature request.

  0.89 has an AVI object which might be useful for cutscenes.

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  • 4 Jan, 2008
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  SDL won't be able to do everything - like pixel shaders, because pixel shaders run entirely in hardware so require a hardware accelerated engine. The SDL runtime acts as a software renderer, which is slower but means your game can run even on computers without DirectX 9, which could be useful for lo-fi games aimed at the casual gaming market.

  And yes, in future we could move on to OpenGL-SDL runtime, which could potentially do everything the DirectX runtime does (including shaders) but work on other platforms <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

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  • 4 Jan, 2008
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  Fixed in next build - it'll never have a trailing dot.

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  • 4 Jan, 2008
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  Lol, can't wait? I've uploaded the preliminary 0.9 runtimes including this fix to here. Extract to the Data directory.

  I can't remember if we've changed anything else in particular, they might not work, in which case you'll have to wait!

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  • 4 Jan, 2008
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  I'm curious too <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt=":?" title="Confused" />