Freeciv

[sh191976]

Being a big fan of the civilization series mainly for amiga and PC, i have enjoyed playing civ on opensnes, however, does anybody with programming experience think that Freeciv could be ported to the GP32?

www.freeciv.org

Cheers

 

[ravuya]

I love FreeCiv. It's cost me more of a GPA than anything else, and that includes nethack (which I would also love to see a port of, maybe that's what I'll do).

It's definitely possible performance-wise, and the GP32 could definitely handle it, though from my experience with the app it's pretty heavy on reliance with different windowing toolkits (GTK+ and XLib versions are available).

Maybe the windowing stuff is all object-oriented and can easily be swapped; I haven't taken a whack at the source code.

A Freeciv clone would be easily within the realm of possibility, and perhaps even a port if someone is bored enough to write replacements for all the UI code.

 

[khephren]

You'd have to rescale all the graphics as well, but that is easily done. As you say, support for windowing libs would be troublesome. Till then i'll just play ST/SNES CIV