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IAC249
Squire
USA
39 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 05 2006 : 2:13:22 PM
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| I'm wondering if anyone here is using REALBasic for Linux? |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2006 : 10:52:56 PM
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Good question. I played with a demo once a long time ago, and I was able to easily compile and run a sample program on my laptop, Suse 9.2 I think. I dont' have any free time anymore, but I always wanted to see how if I could easily create a simple 'game server' of some sort. The old version of Real Basic that I played with had support of tcp/ip, which is pretty much all you need for something basic.
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IAC249
Squire
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2006 : 09:44:20 AM
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Hi Eric,
REAL Software has now released REALBasic 2006; the standard version for Linux is freeware.
Like you, I don't have much free time, but I am hoping to give it a try on SUSE v.10 (what a sweet distro!).
- Corey |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2006 : 4:23:50 PM
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| I can't find a freeware version anywhere on their site. |
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IAC249
Squire
USA
39 Posts |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2006 : 11:06:09 PM
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| Thanks! I was looking in the wrong location. I was looking at the windows version. I didn't realize that RealBasic shipped on different platforms. When you mentioned Linux I automtically assumed you meant a windows version that only compiled for linux. My primary computer is windows, so that's what I use all the time. I only have Linux on my laptop, which I don't use very often since it is really slow. I'll have to find some time to boot up the old lappy and download this version of Realbasic. How good are the sample programs? And does this free version support the integrated 3D graphics engine and 2D vector graphics support? |
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IAC249
Squire
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2006 : 8:15:14 PM
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Hi Eric.
Standard Edition (which is free for the Linux IDE) is supposed have the following graphical features:
Bitmaps
Use the REALbasic Canvas class to create and display bitmap images.
Vector graphics
Includes a 2D vector graphics engine for spline-based images.
Real-time 3D engine
Add interactive real-time 3D graphics with REALbasic's built-in graphics engine.
Sprite animation engine
Interactive sprite surface with built-in collision detection.
QuickTime
Play and edit QuickTime movies and virtual reality (VR) scenes in your applications.
I personally have not tried any of it yet; I'm more interested in writing a MUD server at the moment.
Regards,
- Corey
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Mar 18 2006 : 12:35:04 PM
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I've got RealBasic running on Suse 9.1 and Ubuntu 5.10. I've noticed that some of the features don't work unless certain libraries are installed.
Do you plan on creating games with RB or for some other purpose, such as a game server? |
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IAC249
Squire
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - Mar 21 2006 : 06:27:21 AM
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Hi Eric,
My long-term goal is a game server (a MUD server, basically). I wrote some basic MUD servers in VB6 and also a MUD client, but I might end up redoing a client in VB.NET or even in Macromedia Flash so it can run from a web page. The MUD server will be in RB.
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Athiril
Squire
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Posted - Apr 15 2006 : 11:15:24 PM
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You know I'd do my server in C++ with wxWindows/wxWidgets and a nice network library or something like that, but thats just me *shrugs*, making a server to run on your web hosting server would be interesting (at least for me).
I also had another great idea.
I think it's pretty genius.
Use IRC servers, register channel that is passworded, so mIRC and other chat clients cant get in. Send the game data to from the client to the right room, that sends to all other people in the room and is decoded properly etc. |
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