Does anybody know if itix is still working on SDL?
His home page lehtoranta.net has vanished and he doesn't reply to emails.

I'm interested in SDL_sound with modplug plugin. I downloaded the source from Aminet and it seems that modplug is not supported. Any chance this will change?

We were just yesterday discussing one (OpenGL-related) update on irc, so I guess he is still working on it. Have you tried joining #morphos on freenode to see if he's there?

> Does anybody know if itix is still working on SDL?

I guess he would know :-) His latest logins:

Here: 5 days ago
amiga.org: 9 days ago
amigaworld.net: today
amigans.net: about 3 months ago ;-)
utilitybase.com: today

> His home page lehtoranta.net has vanished and he doesn't reply to emails.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6788&forum=3&start=60#70034


Btw, how's Giana's Return for MorphOS coming along? ;-)

Itix have corrected few problems in powerSDL yesterday.
He should release a new version soon.

SixK

My primamy email account is ilkleht@yahoo.com these days

I can look into it but we probably need modplug.library first... I'll look if I can craft something.

That would be great! Thanks in advance.

(Although I don't like pre-announcements at all, probably everybody knows that I will start working on "Giana's Return" soon and modplug seems like a requirement

> I don't like pre-announcements at all

Too late: http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2010-03-00055-EN.html :-)

@phx

Did you already port Giana's Return? Since I already ported modplug.library but I dont have test bench

Work:L?hdekoodit/(...)/libs/modplug/MorphOS> list modplug.library
modplug.library 383572 ----rw-d T?n??n 01:07:54

Oh, btw, libmodplug exports C interface but internally everything is written in C++...

[ Edited by itix on 2010/4/5 3:06 ]

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No. I won't get the source before the next release. They are currently migrating from SDL_mixer/mikmod to SDL_sound/modplug for playing XM mods.

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Great!!!
I didn't expect that so fast!
Many thanks! Tack s? mycket (or whatever it is in finnish)!

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Yes... that's the reason I could not port it with vbcc...

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In my opinion, the external API is much more important, the internal code can often be any kind of mess -even C++- as long as I don't have to touch it

Probably it's used for less fragile binary compatibility.

>> Did you already port Giana's Return?

> No. I won't get the source before the next release.

http://www.gianas-return.de/?p=834

Is it you working on the MorphOS port? I ask because there hasn't been a release meanwhile.

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I have just received the source text this weekend.
Making it compile and work was a matter of 2 - 3 hours. But fine tuning and performance improvements will take some days, or even weeks.
Although I started with the MorphOS port, because of the clean SDL situation, I won't release anything before the OS4 port is finished.

> fine tuning and performance improvements will take some days, or even weeks.

Two weeks. Excellent. Thanks :-)

http://www.gianas-return.de/?p=919

And as if that wouldn't be enough:

http://www.sqrxz.de/?p=139

Thanks again :-)

What's that "Experimental OGL support" in Giana's readme file? OpenGL instead of SDL?

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SDL with OpenGL. But it is Windows-only at the moment. I have to check if it makes any sense for the Amiga ports.


[ Edited by phx on 2010/6/29 12:02 ]

Sadly, both two games' display suffers from a lack of VBL synchro.

I guess that's a bug in PowerSDL?
The game is using SDL_Flip() to switch buffers, which should also wait for vertical retrace, according to its man-page.