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Looks neat! SDL seems open to supporting legacy platforms, so hopefully it'll get mainlined at some point (at this point, may be more likely if they port SDL3 though, SDL2 is in maintenance mode). Does anyone know if it's possible to use a new compiler for this rather than CodeWarrior 7? It would make it easier to port stuff to Mac OS 9 if you don't also have to deal with the compiler only supporting old C/C++ standa…
Wouldn't it be easier to cross-compile using a modern LLVM/GCC? I assume both have 68k backends?
Cross-compiling would be faster (than emulation or too-old hardware), but I have never heard it called "easy". There are a lot of projects out there that need special configuration, and many don't even support the HOSTCC variable, etc. And that's before considering the importance of system libraries.
Is SDL2 just something that everyone is expected to know what it is? I was thinking it was about a Software Development Lifecycle on Mac0S9, but it clearly isn't... but there is no where in this post or that page that explains what SDL2 is.
Wouldn't it be easier to cross-compile using a modern LLVM/GCC? I assume both have 68k backends?
I was really confused by the mention of 68k at first since MacOS 8.6 dropped support for that, but following the link it looks like it supports System 7 as well. Cross-compiling would be faster (than emulation or too-old hardware), but I have never heard it called "easy". There are a lot of projects out there that need special configuration, and many don't even support the HOSTCC variable, etc. And that's before cons…
Uhm, nothing says what SDL is ? The description is an interesting story about the struggles of getting vintage code to build; but it assumes that the reader knows what the thing is to begin with.
Uhm, nothing says what SDL is ? The description is an interesting story about the struggles of getting vintage code to build; but it assumes that the reader knows what the thing is to begin with.
If you do not know what it is, nor cant be arsed to look it up perhaps hackernews is not the correct discussion forum for you. Lurk more.
Is SDL2 just something that everyone is expected to know what it is? I was thinking it was about a Software Development Lifecycle on Mac0S9, but it clearly isn't... but there is no where in this post or that page that explains what SDL2 is.
Not knowing SDL feels like someone having no idea what C++ or Unreal Engine is. I am curious how you managed to avoid learning about SDL despite being on hacker news.
Wondering what I could do with it ... I rewrote Glypha (an old Mac shareware game I wrote) using modern SDL2. Might be fun to try to "back port" (?) it to OS 9 on top of SDL2 (rather than the clunkier CopyBits() calls I used in the original shareware game).
I'd also be really interested to know how SDL2 would fare by comparison. Would it be as fast on old hardware? It wasn't built with the assumptions of that old hardware in mind, so I would be very surprised if it performed as well.