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I didn't ask for it, but I love the clues you drop... "TIS-100"? "Xonotic"? My interest is further piqued, now I have to go and research... Apropos Qt, it is n

by Annatar 10y ago

I didn't ask for it, but I love the clues you drop... "TIS-100"? "Xonotic"? My interest is further piqued, now I have to go and research... Apropos Qt, it is not for the faint of heart: even on platforms it officially supports, it is very hard to build, at least it was last I had to do it professionally, back in 2013. Qt is really unprofessional as a product, I remember it involved a lot of hacking and coercion of the build engine to get it to build. And it's monstrously large. Post scriptum: ah, "Xonotic" is a fork of "Nexuiz". Okay, that's clear now. "TIS-100" is a puzzle game. So these are individual titles, not technology which enables running on a different operating system. "The Ur-Quan Masters" used to build and run superbly on Solaris; it showcased just how good of a gaming platform Solaris could be if the code is good and clean. lx-brand could be made to work, this screenshot shows it's possible: https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.html https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.h... I haven't researched how to translate that into the lx-branded zone though (what the package equivalents would be), primarily because I viewed even the above as too much work: for example, the desktop would have to be brought over to somewhere with an X server. I don't see how it could be made to start on the bare metal's display when it's running in one of the hypervisor's zones?

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes, that's why I said game reccomendations. I've been meaning to check out UQM for a while now. Xonotic should run on Solaris. DarkPlaces, the engine codebase, is fairly portable last I checked. TIS-100 runs atop Mono, but it's probably not using GPU heavily, so it'll probably run in an LX brand if you can get X up and running. As for running X11 on LX, the answer is both simple in its phrasing and hellish in its implications: X Forwarding. I kid. Although it does seem like X forwarding is the easiest option. Luckily, you're not forwarding over the net, so you should be fine. But yeah, it's nice to have a simple discussion about running video games in ways not intended, and what games are good, after spending a while explaining why systemd is a bad idea for the 15th time, because some people are still taken in by the sparkly unit files, and aren't paying attention to the beast lurking below the surface. (If such people are reading this thread, I'll give you a hint: Separation of concerns is a good thing, and if the process will panic the kernel if it crashes, I want it doing the job it's required to do. AND NOTHING ELSE.)

by Annatar 10y ago

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

Yes, that's why I said game reccomendations. I've been meaning to check out UQM for a while now. Xonotic should run on Solaris. DarkPlaces, the engine codebase, is fairly portable last I checked. TIS-100 runs atop Mono, but it's probably not using GPU heavily, so it'll probably run in an LX brand if you can get X up and running. As for running X11 on LX, the answer is both simple in its phrasing and hellish in its implications: X Forwarding. I kid. Although it does seem like X forwarding is the easiest option. Luckily, you're not forwarding over the net, so you should be fine. But yeah, it's nice to have a simple discussion about running video games in ways not intended, and what games are good, after spending a while explaining why systemd is a bad idea for the 15th time, because some people are still taken in by the sparkly unit files, and aren't paying attention to the beast lurking below the surface. (If such people are reading this thread, I'll give you a hint: Separation of concerns is a good thing, and if the process will panic the kernel if it crashes, I want it doing the job it's required to do. AND NOTHING ELSE.)