Announcement: New/updated in HaikuDepot (2025)

[3dEyes]

@alpopa

Sorry for off-topic @3dEyes , but what slicer software (not limiting to available on Haiku) do you recommend?

The best and most functional slicer at the moment (imho) is OrcaSlicer. I use it exclusively, especially since it has a ready-made profile for my printer.

[Begasus]

OpenSCAD 2021.01 (64bit only atm).

[Starcrasher]

Damned fullscreen screenshots! I caught myself trying to scroll down a slider again.

[MichaelPeppers]

Well, I can’t believe I missed this thread until now, in the last few days I went ahead and updated some game packages:

DevilutionX is now at version 1.5.4, this is an incredibly good source port for good old Diablo (and Hellfire) and works flawlessly in Haiku.
Compared to other systems we’re just missing the ZeroTier protocol for multiplayer, which relies on an external library I wasn’t able to compile last time I tried.

GemRB has also been updated to 0.9.4, it’s an Infinity Engine emulator that can run Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale 1 & 2 very well, while iirc Planescape: Torment doesn’t run as well on it. As far as I know this port is feature-complete.

PrBoom+ now compiles on 32-bit and should be up on HaikuDepot. I decided to port this Doom sourceport some months ago because Chocolate Doom is great but barebones and GZDoom runs horribly without hw acceleration on this pc.
Unfortunately there’s something finicky about the way PrBoom+ handles audio I couldn’t solve so this port only outputs MIDI with Opl2 which sounds pretty poor imo.

The old Freeciv port for Haiku had write issues with its settings folder, so I updated it and made an inelegant fix for it, then fortunately korli came in and decided to patch the issue out properly.

Last but not least, today I updated the Battle for Wesnoth port to 1.18.4, the new recipe is waiting on haikuports but I’m positive it’ll pop up on HaikuDepot pretty soon.

[marcoapc]

ZeroTier protocol is bad, it depends on proprietary service and account, it is implemented like a chimera in DevilutionX, there are better methods to play multiplayer, not all OS use ZeroTier protocol, many disable it.

[MichaelPeppers]

Didn’t know about the specifics of ZeroTier. In that case I hope they’ll think about implementing some other, free-er, multiplayer protocol, as the alternative to ZeroTier now is just the ancient TCP/IP protocol which is far from ideal.

[Begasus]

Qt-Creator 16.0.0 update available.

[DigitalBox]

Thanks @3dEyes for this update

[Qu-bit]

Hmm, how many years of learing programming does it take to do this kind of stuff?

[Begasus]

For me personally, I’m still trying to figure out how to write “Hello world!” in cpp.

[Qu-bit]

your kidding

[alpopa]

@Begasus

For me personally, I’m still trying to figure out how to write “Hello world!” in cpp.

@Qu-bit

your kidding

Well, you probably speak about “programmer” in broader sense of the word. You know, somebody programs in C++ / Java, somebody in Python / Ruby, somebody in Bash / Swift, somebody in Makefile / CMake / Jam / Ninja, somebody programs in Word / Excel / Outlook / Teams / Zoom / Thunderbird / etc.

Probably, there are more “programming” skills. But I observed when a programmer learns to program in languages from the last category, he / she forgets how to program in all the rest of languages

[ubu]

I can write hello world in about a dozen languages, so i am a much better programmer

[michel]

That’s nothing. I can cut and paste Hello World from Rosetta Code in almost every language ever made!

[coolcoder613]

That’s nothing, I can get AI to hallucinate hello world in thousands of languages that don’t even exist!