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| author | Aki <please@ignore.pl> | 2022-04-08 19:11:08 +0200 |
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diff --git a/state_of_starshatter_open_january_2022.html b/state_of_starshatter_open_january_2022.html deleted file mode 100644 index 4b4da11..0000000 --- a/state_of_starshatter_open_january_2022.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ -<!doctype html> -<html lang="en"> -<meta charset="utf-8"> -<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> -<meta name="author" content="aki"> -<meta name="tags" content="starshatter, starshatter open, update, news"> -<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="cylo.png"> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> - -<title>State of Starshatter Open - January 2022</title> - -<nav><p><a href="https://ignore.pl">ignore.pl</a></p></nav> - -<article> -<h1>State of Starshatter Open - January 2022</h1> -<p class="subtitle">Published on 2022-01-30 20:00:00+01:00 -<p>Few months ago I created a fork of Starshatter Open, and because it appears to be the only (semi-) active one, and -also because I already have a platform on which I share my pointless thoughts; I thought that I'll do exactly that. -<p>Starshatter was never a popular game and these days the community is even more dead. That's mostly because there's -only few of us and as far as I know I'm the only active developer that gives it some time once a few months. -<h2>State of My Project</h2> -<p>The goals of my work on Starshatter Open are:</p> -<ul> -<li>Stabilizing the build by moving to CMake (for each component) -<li>Running Starshatter natively on Linux -<li>Have some fun in multiplayer -</ul> -<p>Order is arbitrary. So far the first goal has been partially accomplished. I cleaned up the whole building process -and moved build configuration generation to CMake. It worked fined for everything but <b>Magic2</b>. It was left behind -because it's based on MFC and doing anything with it is annoying. Nonetheless, it's on the to-do list. -<p>During the build system change I cleaned up duplicates and, let's call them "wild", parts of the solutions. For -<b>Stars45</b> it meant that I merged <b>nGenEx</b> and <b>Parser</b> sub-projects into it. They were strongly related -and they were included via direct path anyway. -<p>All third-party code has been properly checked out from their repositories and integrated into main CMake tree. In -the long run, I'd like to separate them into repositories and install into a common root for building, but for now this -will work. <b>Opcode</b> has also been updated but I did it all manually. First off I had to find the correct version of -it. Then I created CMakeLists for it myself. Oh, I mean both <b>Opcodes</b>, because apparently the source was doubled -for some reason. One was used as headers for <b>Stars45</b> the other one was built. Both were incredibly broken. -<p>After I was able to build the project consistently with MSVC and MSYS2/MinGW I took a break. Recently, I fixed some -paths, formatting and other minor things and figured out that I probably should try to build it on Linux with MinGW. -Turns out that after all path updates it worked out just fine and it runs under Wine just right. -<p>The next goal is the biggest one and it's hard to divide it into smaller ones. Of course, I mean port out of DirectX. -Starshatter is decently structured and most of graphics code is isolated in its own part, but there are some exceptions. -And while DirectX is quite OK, the windows headers are used all over the place. This might be a better target for now. -<p>We'll see. If you want to contribute and you don't know where, hit me up. -<h2>Useful Links</h2> -<ul> -<li><a href="https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?board=234.0">Starshatter Open Source Project at HLP Forums</a> -<li><a href="https://negative-10.com/starshatter/">Starshatter Index at Negative-10</a> -<li><a href="https://git.ignore.pl/starshatter/">Starshatter Open Repository</a> (my fork) -</ul> -<p>In case this is all new to you I suggest to see the Negative-10's site. -<h2>Screenshots</h2> -<p>Here are two screenshots of Starshatter running in windowed mode with Wine on my Linux machine. In the first one I -forgot to copy the language pack into the directory, so the text is all messed up.</p> -<img src="state_of_starshatter_open_january_2022-1.png" alt="forgot about language pack"> -<img src="state_of_starshatter_open_january_2022-2.png" alt="this time I didn't"> -</article> -<script src="https://stats.ignore.pl/track.js"></script> |