Comments on: SDL in Games: Old School http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/08/24/sdl-in-games-old-school/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Schiller http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/08/24/sdl-in-games-old-school/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Jeff Schiller Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:16:38 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=141#comment-225 JLK, Actually I have planned on doing this for a year or more, just never found the time. You have spurred me to action. I have just now released the BOSS Library as open source under the GNU General Public License (earlier versions were only under the LGPL). I have put the information <a href="http://www.codedread.com/boss.php" rel="nofollow">here</a>. If you can help in any way, that would be fantastic. Regards, Jeff JLK,

Actually I have planned on doing this for a year or more, just never found the time. You have spurred me to action.

I have just now released the BOSS Library as open source under the GNU General Public License (earlier versions were only under the LGPL). I have put the information here. If you can help in any way, that would be fantastic.

Regards,
Jeff

]]> By: JLK http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/08/24/sdl-in-games-old-school/comment-page-1/#comment-224 JLK Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:46:32 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=141#comment-224 Hi Jeff, BGI is obsolete (for games anyway), but it is a very easy to use (not event-driven) graphics package that is great for teachers and learners of programming. Examples and lab exercises using simple graphics are much more motivating. Nothing beats BGI for this. I am such a teacher, and I use the excellent WinBGIm Windows 32 BGI emulation from the university of Colorado, http://codecutter.org/tools/winbgim/index.html in my teaching (not portable, but they have published their source). Now that I have to move my teaching to Linux, I wish I could use your SDL-based library, but I am very reluctant to commit to a library that is not open source or public domain. I probably would not complete the library, but I want to be able to fix any bug I come across. Access to source saved my skin a few times with WinBGIm. Will you consider making boss open source? Hi Jeff,

BGI is obsolete (for games anyway), but it is a very easy to use (not event-driven) graphics package that is great for teachers and learners of programming. Examples and lab exercises using simple graphics are much more motivating. Nothing beats BGI for this.

I am such a teacher, and I use the excellent WinBGIm Windows 32 BGI emulation from the university of Colorado, http://codecutter.org/tools/winbgim/index.html in my teaching (not portable, but they have published their source).

Now that I have to move my teaching to Linux, I wish I could use your SDL-based library, but I am very reluctant to commit to a library that is not open source or public domain. I probably would not complete the library, but I want to be able to fix any bug I come across. Access to source saved my skin a few times with WinBGIm.

Will you consider making boss open source?

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