Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Weidner
> > > No serious reason, I just didn't know OOP and I > wanted to learn that :) Thanks for the info ... BTW just to learn something new is as good a reason as any to do anything in my book. :) > Later I discovered the wonders of multiplatform > programming - I ported the X11 code later and it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Ron Weidner wrote: Nikolay, Why did you translate openPTC instead of some of the other available choices? What advantages does openPTC offer over SDL or Allegro? Do you have any (Linux) demos/games written with openPTC that I can take a look at? What do you think about tinyPTC? No serious reas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Weidner
> I translated it from C++ in 2001 and it's good > enough for me. :-) It provides graphics output, > keyboard input (key presses and releases) > and high res timers. If that's what you want - > then it may do the job :) > However it doesn't do mouse input (yet) and > sound output (there are s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie

2004-11-25 Thread Gustavo Galembeck
> Yes. Actually I develop on Linux and when it's ready > I compile in > Windows and it works :) Thanks, Nicolay! I cant't wait to install and mess a little with it. I thought I could go through the whole installation proccess without asking something too stupid, but unfortunately... I still

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie

2004-11-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Gustavo Galembeck wrote: As my inicial question in the list, I'd like to know the best way of developing a Win32 / Linux 2D game using Freepascal. Is the PTCPas unit a good choice? I translated it from C++ in 2001 and it's good enough for me. :-) It provides graphics output, keyboard input (key

[fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie

2004-11-24 Thread Gustavo Galembeck
Hello to all, I'm new to Freepascal, and I have many doubts regarding Turbo/Borland Pascal portability of DOS progs to Win32 and Linux, hope I can get some help on this in the future. My current priority is to start developing cross-platform applications. As my inicial question in the list,