Noob Question - Game Engine

[zRichi]

Would this game engine work on the Pandora? Could it also work on Caanoo and Wiz?

http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Main_Page.html

 

[WizardStan]

This has come up before. It's open source and Linux friendly. It may be as simple as a recompile away, just waiting for someone to do the gruntwork. I'm going away for the weekend, but if no one else does it, I'll have a look Monday or Tuesday.

 

[slaeshjag]

The answer seems to be no.

»Unfortunately the OHRRPGCE currently only works on x86 architecture. Support for other architectures will have to wait until FreeBasic makes the GCC move«

 

[WizardStan]

awww, FreeBasic? Sorry, I missed that part. Good catch, slaeshjag. Saves a lot of trouble. Unfortunately you're right, without an ARM compiler, it makes it a solid "no"

 

[zRichi]

Ah, rubbish

Do any game engines work on the Pandora? I was looking into Sphere RPG also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

That's a list of opensource engines.

 

[slaeshjag]

Sphere has no updated editor on linux, they suggest that linux users should run the windows editor in wine. So I suppose sphere will have to wait at least until somebody sets up a winelib SDK, so that native windows apps can be compiled to a linux app with winelib instead of winapi. This does rely on that a open source implementation of mfc42 is released first.

 

[WizardStan]

Sphere has no updated editor on linux, they suggest that linux users should run the windows editor in wine. So I suppose sphere will have to wait at least until somebody sets up a winelib SDK, so that native windows apps can be compiled to a linux app with winelib instead of winapi. This does rely on that a open source implementation of mfc42 is released first.

That's just the editor though. You can run the editor on your desktop and maybe run the player on the Pandora. It's C++, so that's a step in the right direction, relies on wxWidgets, Audiere, and Corona, all of which are open source, however only wxWidgets has a known ARM compile. In order to compile the Sphere player, someone would have to compile Audiere and Corona for the Pandora first, which may be the sticking point.