I've been reading the documentation for SDL after looking through Bomberclone's source code. I then began to work on some tutorials found at: http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php
I've done the first two and I'm working on the third. I want to get through the first five today; maybe more. At some point, I should look into compiling the examples on windows.
I've put the examples into my projects/sdl/sdl# directory structure.
What I've learned is that I've been avoiding this for too many years. I don't know if it was fear or success or what. I know part of it is my hate for Windows and the way the industry is so owned by Windows (and doesn't seem to mind!) I will
have to see where this takes me. I'm having a lot of fun.
After a long day of Warhammer and some additional chores I'm back and hoping to get at least tutorials 3, 4 and 5 done.
The third is a simple lib include tutorial, it causes me to look at make alternatives because I know that soon I'll want to start scripting the builds.
I found this article: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1715/
I've read through lesson 6, I'm going to go a bit further just reading without compiling examples anymore. Each lesson has shown such a small new idea that I'll wait until there is a more complicated example. Having gotten as far as making tetris and pac-man in Java; I understand the concepts going on. SDL seems really nice though!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Weekend Warrior Log #1
I pulled bomberclone out of cvs. It doesn't configure correctly and I think it may be because of a missing SDL library on my ubuntu box.
I had to install all libsdl*-dev packages.
Bomberclone built and compiled just fine; I'm going to study the source code a bit and see if I can add some new stuff.
It's written in C with SDL (obviously), and it's a bit hard to follow. It's done very old school MUD style with everything just in a struct and kind of built without an overarching design. I kind of like it even though I can't follow it well. I'll have to spend more time with it.
I had to install all libsdl*-dev packages.
Bomberclone built and compiled just fine; I'm going to study the source code a bit and see if I can add some new stuff.
It's written in C with SDL (obviously), and it's a bit hard to follow. It's done very old school MUD style with everything just in a struct and kind of built without an overarching design. I kind of like it even though I can't follow it well. I'll have to spend more time with it.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Super Saver Shipping
Inevitably, similar to the sun actually showing it's warm face in Milwaukee; a person will find that they have ordered something from Amazon. A bold move for most, as they will likely penetrate your heart with their 'orders of 25.00 or more qualify for FREE SUPER SAVER SHIPPING'. Balloons go up, confetti rains down, and you feel like a post fornication smoke. This is of course until you actually attempt to use this free option, which is, as they qualify it - SUPER.
I'd like to know what's so god damn super about it. You order on the 12th, and this SUPER shipping spits out an arrival date of the 23rd. With your dignity lost, you begin to look forward to something you payed for, the same way children look forward to Christmas - looming and unpredictable.
While my order contains more books than I can read, that isn't unusual. After all, I spend my fridays purchasing books in a usual plurality, while it takes me at least a week to read one. If the math confuses you, I'll use context. Similar to a women purchasing her 41st pair of shoes, I buy books that have a specific purpose on my bookshelf, that they may or may not one day see. Do not make jokes, as with the shoes, I will defend my purchase with my life.
Of course, jokes abound. Upon informing my girlfriend I had purchased a book with a witty title of 'The book with no name', authored by 'anonymous'. I finished a book while she laughed. As the glorious laughter settled, she wanted to make it clear that the choice was beyond bad, and into the region of hilariously delusional. A book. No name. No author. I made it worse and told her the premise - it was titled so because 'anyone who read it didn't survive to talk about it', or whatever. The idea has taken it's dignity and vacated my memory. I'll probably think the book is badass.
Most importantly, my Amazon "request", includes a DVD - "Ghost Dog". I won't argue or defend the movies' merit here, that would get long and complicated. You don't have the attention span, and quite frankly I don't have the vocabulary to properly describe how FCKN FRSH the movie is.
I do think I understand though. They have a satanic deal with UPS. They fill a pit with orders, it's a SUPER pit. Where-upon the pit becomes full enough, UPS kindly agrees to send over a horse drawn carriage. Each order is then delivered, dependent only on the amount of Whiskey provided to the driver, and the mood of the horses.
The real announcement is my plan to begin posting reviews of the books here, why not? I will make every attempt to be non biased, but all reviews will be "Super".
I'd like to know what's so god damn super about it. You order on the 12th, and this SUPER shipping spits out an arrival date of the 23rd. With your dignity lost, you begin to look forward to something you payed for, the same way children look forward to Christmas - looming and unpredictable.
While my order contains more books than I can read, that isn't unusual. After all, I spend my fridays purchasing books in a usual plurality, while it takes me at least a week to read one. If the math confuses you, I'll use context. Similar to a women purchasing her 41st pair of shoes, I buy books that have a specific purpose on my bookshelf, that they may or may not one day see. Do not make jokes, as with the shoes, I will defend my purchase with my life.
Of course, jokes abound. Upon informing my girlfriend I had purchased a book with a witty title of 'The book with no name', authored by 'anonymous'. I finished a book while she laughed. As the glorious laughter settled, she wanted to make it clear that the choice was beyond bad, and into the region of hilariously delusional. A book. No name. No author. I made it worse and told her the premise - it was titled so because 'anyone who read it didn't survive to talk about it', or whatever. The idea has taken it's dignity and vacated my memory. I'll probably think the book is badass.
Most importantly, my Amazon "request", includes a DVD - "Ghost Dog". I won't argue or defend the movies' merit here, that would get long and complicated. You don't have the attention span, and quite frankly I don't have the vocabulary to properly describe how FCKN FRSH the movie is.
I do think I understand though. They have a satanic deal with UPS. They fill a pit with orders, it's a SUPER pit. Where-upon the pit becomes full enough, UPS kindly agrees to send over a horse drawn carriage. Each order is then delivered, dependent only on the amount of Whiskey provided to the driver, and the mood of the horses.
The real announcement is my plan to begin posting reviews of the books here, why not? I will make every attempt to be non biased, but all reviews will be "Super".
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