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Remove "Windows" project, add "Mac OS X" port.

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Yamagi Burmeister 2012-06-06 11:45:40 +02:00
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@ -47,27 +47,19 @@ Some hints:
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1. Port Yamagi Quake II to Microsoft Windows
1. Port Yamagi Quake II to Mac OS X
Difficulty: Hard
Knowledge: Microsoft Windows, good understanding of the Quake II source,
SDL-ABI, (experience with 64 bit problems)
Difficulty: Medium
Knowledge: Mac OS X API, good knowledge of src/unix/
While Quake II was released on Microsoft Windows, support for the plattform was
removed in the early stages of Yamagi Quake II. Looking back this was a bad
decision. Goal of this project is a backport to Microsoft Windows. This
requieres at least three steps:
1. Import the platform specific stuff for Windows from Icculus Q2, clean it up
and bring it to feature parity with the Unix stuff in src/unix. The nativ
sound, render and input backends should be replaced by the SDL backends in
src/sdl.
2. Go through the source and remove all unixisms.
And optional (Win64 support isn't required since 32 bit binaries are
working nice, but it be would nice to have):
3. Since Windows 64 has another binary model than all unixoid platform there
will most likely new 64 bit problems. Identify and resolve these.
A port to Mac OS X is a frequently requested feature but can't be done
by the Yamagi Quake II developers due to the lack of hardware. Since Mac
OS X is just another unixoid platform porting the game should be easy,
the most notable difference to FreeBSD and Linux is the MACH-O binary
format. So at least all calls to dlopen(), dlsym() and dlclose() must be
replaced by the corresponding Mac OS X functions. All other platform
dependend stuff should be hidden by SDL, but there may be some SDL bugs
on OS X.
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@ -102,7 +94,7 @@ Difficulty: Medium
Knowledge: How to debug hard to read code
While the baseq2 game modul was cleaned up and made more robust by adding
hundreds of sanity checks both addons (xatrix and rogue) still require a lot
hundreds of sanity checks, both addons (xatrix and rogue) still require a lot
of work. Go through the code, read it and understand it. Remove bugs, and add
the missing sanity checks. Test (e.g. play) and add implement map quirks.
Especially the coop-support of both addons is still fragile at best.
@ -115,10 +107,10 @@ Difficulty: Hard
Knowledge: How to work with broken code
Zaero is an unofficial but popular addon to Quake II. It was release as
freeware. The Yamagi Quake II did an inital port, but it's unfinished and
still buggy. Grab the source (take a look at our Github organization), clean
it and debug it. Zaero will need some extensive testing, have fun while
playing :)
freeware. The Yamagi Quake II developers did an inital port, but it's
unfinished and still buggy. Grab the source (take a look at our Github
organization), clean it and debug it. Zaero will need some extensive
testing, have fun while playing. :)
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