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If Amos: The Creator is the most you've worked with, I'd suggest you stick with Python and PyGame for now. Google has people working on the problems with Python speed in their Unladen Swallow project based on LLVM. As for Java being faster as some people pointed out, Jython will get your...

GmbH is a German legal term. If it were an American company it would have been OpenPandora LLC. OpenPandora GmbH is EvilDragon's distributorship in Germany.

SFML requires full-fledged OpenGL, LibSnd, and OpenAL at this point. It can be ported to the Pandora, however, if you modify the iPhone port that's in the works.

Since I never code in XCode on my Mac, I had to install from source on my Leopard box. It didn't give me any problems. If you are using Snow Leopard, however, the native interfaces that were used by SDL 1.2.13 and were long deprecated, have finally been removed altogether. Try installing the...

http://olofson.net/examples.html has some SDL examples that use OpenGL for sub-pixel-precision rendering and parallax scrolling. You'd have to update them to use OpenGL-ES but it should get you started.

It wouldn't be so bad if we could standardize on something desktop-oriented also, like a BeagleBoard or some other board that uses the same chips as the Pandora. The trouble would be that some people would have different screen resolutions and controllers than the Pandora has. An idea I was...

It will be legal assuming you use the same Kickstart ROM that your A500 has in it.

In conjunction with Phil's pyGame Utilities it might.

You can use the graphics in PNG, BMP, Jpeg, and so on. Likewise you can use sound files in WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and so on. The maps and other stuff are proprietary to RPG Maker and won't work on the Pandora.

You'll probably have to start from scratch. RPG Maker is closed-source and IIRC, it probably uses proprietary file formats as well. You might look into Ika instead. You'll only have to port the OpenGL calls to OpenGL-ES it looks like.

EUAE doesn't even run some fullspeed apps for AmigaOS on my Intel Mac Mini at 1.83 GHz correctly, particularly Total Chaos AGA which recommends a 50 MHz 68060 processor to run perfectly. FWIW though, the last of the Amiga patents will expire next year so maybe an AGA compatible core could be...

Regarding the comment that this forum is dead, you might try reposting your question on gp32x.de in the Pandora section there. When that forum got fixed this forum became abandoned again.

PySFML is probably the best 2d library for Pandora and Python although it is written in C++ natively. I'm pretty sure it is being ported to OpenGL-ES also since it will soon be able to work on the iPhone.

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VMKit for LLVM should do the job. (There, said my piece.)

To do realtime bitmap scaling and sprite rotations, I'd skip PyGame and go directly to PySFML. Since PySFML is OpenGL-based it has better GPU acceleration than PyGame which is based on SDL's 2d software renderer. Link to PySFML is here, just scroll down and look for the version of Python you...

@Shaun It all depends on the engine it is connected to. For an example of an advanced 3d engine that uses Python as a scripting langauge, see Panda3D. Sure you'll need to learn C++ to write an engine but C++ is a cryptic and difficult language to learn. Python is dead simple. Also, Google...

PyGame Utilities has a tile-map editor and GUI functionality all written in Python and PyGame so if you want to look into that, go right ahead. It won't spare you from learning to write code in Python but it will get you started.

On my Mac, the demos installed at /Developer/Python/pygame/Examples/ so if you're on a Mac look there. If you're on Windows, look at the directory where you unpacked the files, or just do a file search for aliens.py and the directory that that's in should have others.