[MacGLQuake] I'm back

[Brad Oliver]

> After analyzing the possibilities, asking Scott Kevill to release doesn't
> sound like all that bad of an idea.  If anybody does approach him, it's
> important that we NOT plead with, because then we just sound dumb (and we know
> how far pleading got trying to get him to release a Quiver 2).  We would need
> to show him a coherent design doc, with the bugs we would fix, the features we
> would add, and the migration path to new technology (ie OpenGL, carbon).
> Conveniently, I've been pondering this for the past day or so.

I think your best path here is not in telling him what features you'd want
to add/change, but proving to him that you are actually capable of doing the
work. From what I know of Scott, he's more impressed by action than talk.

Failing that, I would recommend that you guys port one of the existing
open-source editors. Coincidentally, a Mac port of a DOS level editor for
Dark Forces was the first app I ever released publicly for the Mac, and it
was a _great_ learning experience.

> OpenGL - it would seem necessary in conjunction with a move to OS X, but I saw
> a website with some kind of Quickdraw/RAVE library for OpenGL.  Really weird;
> I lost the url tho.  Regardless, RAVE is pretty much unsupported by Apple now,
> and OpenGL is quite nice.

Quesa (www.quesa.org) is probably what you mean. It's QuickDraw 3D,
open-sourced to run on top of OpenGL. It's my understanding it was used in
the port of Bugdom to the PC from the Mac and that it's pretty stable now.
 
> about the Hexen II stuff: that just rules, I've always wanted to play that
> game.  I'm pretty sure Starcraft uses Smacker too, and I think Smacker
> released a Mac player for their video.  That probably doesn't help a wink for
> getting video support *in* the app, but the opening movie can be played
> separately I guess.

You can grab the player from www.smacker.com for sure. However, that may not
be necessary... ;-)

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Brad Oliver
bradman@pobox.com