You can see us also at FOSDEM in February (Brussels), or JDLL in April (Lyon). Or at Capitole du Libre next year!
Myself and someone else were working on no gravity (spacegirl) at some point (years ago I think?). I canāt recall exactly but I thought it was working and got put into haiku portsā¦ my memory is hazy though. Just a hint that I do remember; itās probably easier/faster to port the Linux SDL code than the old BeOS backend. Haiku is missing the BDirectGLWindow implementation (a Dano feature).
Unless Iām mistaken, BDirectGLWindow would just be a BGLView attached to a BDirectWindow, which is the normal way of using OpenGL both on R5 and on Haiku, so it shouldnāt be too hard to replicate this.
Although i was thinking this, sdl might be just plug and compile if there are no specific code.
However, the BeOS folder has some values for paths and startup setup, in a quick peek at the code.
There was a Be newsletter with some brief info on the differences between BGLView and BDirectGLWindow [1]. It appears itās about locking across multiple windows, but anyway it does look simple to use a BGLView instead (for simple use cases at least). However, porting the Linux SDL version probably requires even more minimal changes (I donāt remember exactly).
[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue5-13.html
Canāt not mention Cave Story !
Sure we are always interested to get our tutorials translated to every oter language.
The address to the tutorials are changed, because we create a new besly and the old one are switched to old.besly.de.
Hi, I found a retro digger game on Clasqm repository Iām Trying use a game options from terminal. On game description writing: āHere are the options when you start from Terminal: digger [[/S:]speed] [[/L:]level file] ā¦ etc.ā Nothing works. Maybe someone play that game and know how to use these options. Specially I wonāt run a ā/U = Allow unlimited livesā. Please, someone explain to me how it works.
I agree that we should promote gaming on Haikuā¦butā¦
this could become a boomerang due to the fact that Haiku is not ready to satisfy the general gamer. They could eventually come and be disappointed due, for example, lack of nowdays-standard 3d experience and soā¦
I think itās better to focus on some specific niches of gaming that we know runs ok in Haiku and could offer great experience. Adventures, for example.
ScummVM runs great I guess. We could eventually try to contact those guys at Thimbleweed Park to see if they are interested in porting a proof-of-concept (not a complete game, letās be realistic). Others enthusiast fanmade adventures are ready to be played outside and so onā¦
just an opinion 
Hi, Iām the main original author of Dave Gnukem, glad to see the interest in it.
Would be nice to have it running on Haiku. Dave Gnukem has since reached āversion 1ā:
Note itās not really a āportā of Duke Nukem 1, as the game is quite different - the idea was to have āsimilar look and feelā to DN1, but is more like a parody of DN1 (I didnāt want a strict clone for two reasons, firstly legal, secondly wanted something a bit original ā¦ if anyoneās hoping for DN1 on Haiku then something like DOSbox is probably better). Iām new to Haiku and donāt know it but just by chance I was trying it out the other day in a VM (before I saw your post), as I like to follow alternative OSs, and of course I gave it a quick try to get Dave Gnukem running (in theory I donāt think it should be difficult), but I got stuck on a small issue unrelated to the game (following the instructions to try set up haikuports in order to try set up SDL I got some error where the latest haikuports git scripts seemed to say they needed Python 3 but Python 2.7 was what came installed with Haiku, or something like that, I didnāt see an obvious way to fix it so I gave up ā¦ I have limited spare time but if someone wants to help get Dave Gnukem we could give it a go and I could try assist (eg if someone tries to get it building and you get C++ compile errors Iād be glad to try help fix), or if someone knows how to easily fix my haikuports Python version problem I could give it another quick try in a VM.
The source code is relatively straightforward C++ make project which compiles on almost any Linux, basically just needs two dependencies (libsdl1.2-dev and libsdl-mixer1.2-dev) - then basically āgit cloneā the source code, git clone the data, then use āmakeā to compile (the project readme on github has instructions). The sound can be disabled with a simple compile option if libsdlmixer is a problem. I imagine there might be slight Makefile tweaks needed.
(Cross-posting to 2x threads, sorry.)
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You do not need HaikuPorts to install SDL libs, just install the devel packages using HaikuDepot or pkgman (pkgman install libsdl_devel sdl_mixer_devel for sdl 1.2). Most SDL based games compile pretty easily. I can give it a shot later today.
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There is an open source engine for Thimbleweed Park (though it is still work in progress). Alas, it doesnāt use SDL as backend but SFML which is not ported to Haiku yet. The engine to run Thimbleweed Park is called Engge and can be found on Github. I looked at the SFML code and it seems like it wouldnāt be too hard to port to Haiku. Iāll give it a shot and if I can get a crude port done Iāll try to get that Engge to work too, which would give us possibility to play Thimbleweed Park on Haiku.
When I tried this, it didnāt seem to install the libSDL .h files ā¦ maybe I missed something, Iāll try again.
EDIT I got it working 
ā¦ using āpkgmanā seems to have helped, as you mention, to install the two dependencies - thank you! That helped. Then as per the Gnukem readme instructions on github I did:
~> git clone GitHub - davidjoffe/dave_gnukem: Dave Gnukem is a cross-platform 2D scrolling platform shooter inspired by Duke Nukem 1
~> cd dave_gnukem
~/dave_gnukem> git clone GitHub - davidjoffe/gnukem_data: Game data subfolder for https://github.com/davidjoffe/dave_gnukem (important) data
~/dave_gnukem> make
~/dave_gnukem> ./davegnukem
Sound works too.
I had to make one change to the Dave Gnukem Makefile - the āINCLUDEDIRS=ā line should read:
INCLUDEDIRS=sdl-config --cflags
(Edit4 Iāve now committed a small update to the official Makefile that should detect Haiku automatically)
EDIT2 Of course now a more difficult part would be making a package (Someone mentioned this game had a BeOS port. It did as I recall in the past, but I was not involved with that at all ā¦ doesnāt matter anymore.)
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I was just about to post the same thing with almost same screenshot 
About your instructions, you need to add āsdl-config ālibsā to ldflags in makefile too.
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I never had to, not sure why.
Iām a bit nervous to break builds on other platforms if I change the official Makefile, so I may commit a āMakefile.haikuā to the github master, then the instructions would be āmake -f Makefile.haikuā, or somesuch ā¦ thatās my suggested approach ā¦ or I could try add a couple of lines to detect haiku
Sorry, my mistake, that addition is not needed, the ldflags are fine as they are.
In theory that change is indeed āmore correctā than how it is in my rather simple āofficialā Makefile, but Iām a bit nervous to change the official Makefile as there are other ports to a few other platforms forked from it, some have their own custom pre-build patches onto this Makefile.
EDIT Iāve added some detection code to the official Makefile now that should detect HaikuOS and use the correct settings - so the main official Makefile should now work āas isā, in theory.
One small issue Iāve noticed, the audio seems to be delayed by a second or two. Not sure if thatās a VirtualBox-related issue or a Haiku issue or a LibSDLmixer-on-Haiku issue. Never noticed that on any other platforms before.
You also have that?
Edit I see Dave Gnukem is in fact already in HaikuPorts:
I didnāt know that. I see there may be one or two other small patches.
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ResidualVM ver.0.4.0 for Haiku 64bit ported by 3Deyes
https://www.residualvm.org/
The new ResidualVM port is working nicely with:
āThe longest Journeyā
available on Haiku Depot now!
other great games to play: Escape from Monkey Island 3D, Myst 3 Exile, Grim Fandango.
You need the original games to play!
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There is already a working recipe for dave-gnukem: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/blob/1347978fe347902a177812b3b636053934f4c3bc/games-action/dave_gnukem/dave_gnukem-1.0.recipe
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