by Kzinti » May 24, 2002 @ 5:40pm
I would love to make PocketFrog work on H/PC devices. Thing is I don't have access to such a device.
Currently I can see 3 issues to be investigated:
1) Dependency on GX.DLL (GAPI). Is there a GAPI implementation available on the H/PC? If not, what is available to directly access the screen? In the end, it is entirely possible to use a DIB as a backbuffer and blit it to the display each frame. In that case, it would be important to know the color format of the display (as to optimize the blit). Also, what are the dimensions of the screen in pixels?
2) Dependency on AYGSHELL.DLL. This is used on PPC to switch to/from fullscreen mode. This can easily be solved by not using static linking to the DLL.
3) Dependency on IMGDECMP.DLL. This DLL is used on PPC to decompress images (JPG, GIF, BMP). Is it available on the H/PC? If so, what are the image formats supported? If not, we will have to find an alternative way of decompressing images (BMP is easy, JPG/GIF is more complicated, perhaps LIBJPG).
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