hatfarm Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Alright, so I'm about a month and a half away from graduating. One of the things I'm planning on doing immediately upon graduation is picking up work on X-Com Hack. I'm thinking I'm going to move to using C++ though, because I can make a version available for Linux and Mac users. However, I think this'll make it easier to get rid of a lot of the bugs that are plaguing people. I'll also be able to make it much more efficient. Anyway, just wanted to let you all know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valken Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Congrats on graduation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafros Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Congratulations friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarrow Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 my congratulations too for linux users I would suggest Wine ( yes, I use it too ) yarrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatfarm Posted April 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Yeah, Wine gets the job done, but if you have the DOS version of the game (which is the version that Steam gives you), you can copy the files into linux and use DOSBox to run the actual game. I'd rather make it so that people don't have to use Wine which is so incredibly slow (in my experience). I can make it native to Linux and let people avoid that. Of course, with DOSBox you could always use XCUTIL, but I'm making X-Com Hack for people who want a GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarrow Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) wine -> slow? .... hmmmyou should recompile it from source!and you will see what speed is general recommendations: enable flags-O2 ( default is O which does only basic optimizations, try O3, but the gain could be insignificant )--omit-frame-pointer ( faster, at the cost of debug )--march-i686 ( or better )--fast-math ( speed, at the cost of tiny rounding errors )--enable-expensive-optimizations ( speed gain, at the cost of the size of the resulting binary ) disable flags:-g ( big debug slowdown, used by default if you use binary package for many distros )-ggdb ( next big debug slowdown )--march-i386 ( one more big slowdown, default for most distros, forces your cpu to 386 compatibility mode switching ) man gcc for more details yarrow ps.that is why I use PLD or Gentoo distrosspeed gain at the cost of windows or install time Edited April 30, 2012 by yarrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatfarm Posted May 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Meh, I can build it native for Linux anyway with what I'm going to be using (Qt) so that should run quicker than anything inside of Wine anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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