GP2X Not Sure What To Think About This:

[Julius]

http://www.noctemware.com/q3ce.html

The interesting thing is that it uses a OpenGL ES software renderer implementation.

Nothing really exiting yet, but maybe this is worth researching a bit more?

 

[fishybawb]

5fps @ 400mhz - ouch!

That OGL library does sound mightily interesting though...

 

[second exodous]

I would think that Quake II would look just as good as III on such a small screen. And if Quake II was ported you could run UFO: Alien Invasion. UFOAI hasn't been very active, but looks like a fun game if it ever gets going. Also, if someone can get it running on the GP2X maybe it would get better and low FPS probably wouldn't affect it much. But I don't think Quake II or III will ever be playable on anything that doesn't have a dedicated GPU with OpenGL.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[murak]

Way cool! Not playable but it a start! FPS on handheld.. what times we live in =)

 

[timbobsteve]

Is opengl ES a software implimentation of OpenGL ?

If so, I think if the OpenGL computation can be limited to the second ARM on the gp2x it could eventually be fully playable... even more so now that the source for all original quake games is GPL'd.

Thanks again Mr Carmack... I mean... Sir Carmack... no... wait.... God...

Teeeheehee

 

[slygamer]

Is opengl ES a software implimentation of OpenGL ?

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OpenGL ES is a subset of OpenGL for embedded systems (ES = Embedded Systems).

The page mentions Vincent, an open-source OpenGL ES implementation. It would be interesting to see if that could be ported to GP2X.

 

[Julius]

Homepage of Vincent:

http://ogl-es.sourceforge.net/index.htm

Interesting stuff

 

[skeezix]

There are a few software renderers for open/gl and subsets.. but they're not really fast. Still, one of us will be porting them for sure

jeff

 

[Julius]

Well this one sounds promising, as it is specificly ment for relativly slow ARM cpus like the one in the gp2x.

 

[jlebrech]

its for xscale processors tho.

What about Mesa?

im interested in porting battalion

http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/AndyBattalion.html

ive played it on a pentium 75 with Mesa, so it should run fine on gp2x.

 

[Sonic-NKT]

i dont know much about mesa (software rendering) , but on my pc its damn slow (2Ghz)

 

[icurafu]

i dont know much about mesa (software rendering) , but on my pc its damn slow (2Ghz)

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http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/TinyGL/

TinyGL is a software GL Engine. It looks alright. Does most of the OpenGL 1.1 functions.

I'm interested in finding a fixed point software 3D engine.

 

[slygamer]

I'm interested in finding a fixed point software 3D engine.

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OpenGL ES focuses on fixed point.

 

[icurafu]

I'm interested in finding a fixed point software 3D engine.

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OpenGL ES focuses on fixed point.

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I had no idea that OpenGL ES was software 3D engine.

 

[slygamer]

Some implementations, such as Vincent mentioned above, are.

 

[BBTroll]

The XGP has hardware support for OpenGL ES. Too bad it is ugly.