release notes:
Too much fun, these bits and baubles...
thi
README excerpt:
This is a collection of small programs released
under GNU GPL v3 that use Guile-SDL, available at:
http://www.nongnu.org/guile-sdl/
NB: These require Guile-SDL 0.4.0 or later.
NEWS excerpt:
- 4.0 | 2012-02-14
- distribution now .tar.xz
If you have GNU tar, you can use "tar xf" and it will DTRT.
If not, you can use "xz -dc TARBALL | tar xf -" to unpack.
- new ‘demo’ option ‘--list’
This lists the available demo programs, one per line. Also,
‘--help’ no longer does that, suggesting ‘--list’ instead.
- changes to demo ‘view-vcg’
- default geometry now 800x600
You can still achieve the old default geometry, of course, by
invoking with the option ‘-g 300x400’.
- background stars
This demonstrates another panning method than that provided by
‘(sdl misc-utils) toroidal-panner/3p’, which as it turns out, is
not up to the task for compositing ‘SRCCOLORKEY’ surfaces. :-/
Probably this upstart will find its way into a Guile-SDL release
sooner or later.
- new option ‘--depth N’
The default starfield depth is 3, but you can specify another
with the new option ‘--depth N’. High depth works but is ugly.
Specifying a zero depth effectively disables background stars.
Additionally, the relative motion (for depth two or higher) of
the starfields demonstrates parallax.
- new demo ‘robots’
This is a "loose port" (re-implementation of original behavior
without actually having experienced the original) of GNU Robots,
using data from GNU Robots 1.2.0 -- please see AUTHORS.
It doesn't demonstrate anything particularly novel, just the
power of Procrastination and Other People's Free Software.
tarball, prettified source, screenshot, etc. in dir:
http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile-sdl-demos/
