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The name “Icculus” stirs up memories. When I started coding, I used SDL, and the guys at Loki let me help as a volunteer beta tester. I got to test Mindrover an
by thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
The name “Icculus” stirs up memories. When I started coding, I used SDL, and the guys at Loki let me help as a volunteer beta tester. I got to test Mindrover and Descent III. I’ve still got hard copies of some of their ports including Sim City 3000.
- Zardoz84 5y agoSim City 3000 was ported to Linux ?
- myko 5y agoI didn't see it in Icculus' resume: https://icculus.org/resume https://icculus.org/resume but it does look like there was a recent project to make it happen: https://github.com/juliogonzalez/sc3u-linux https://github.com/juliogonzalez/sc3u-linux
- ArtWomb 5y agoJust visited Ballantyne, NC. I can see why boatloads are migrating down there ;)
- thatjoeoverthr 5y agoLoki had ported Sim City 3000 Unlimited Edition to Linux and I’ve got it here.
- glouwbug 5y agoLoki was awesome. I think one of their interns wrote one of the most prominent books on SDL to date. It was terrible learning the kid died from a cancerous mole shortly after. His blog ends on a sad note: http://overcode.yak.net/3 http://overcode.yak.net/3
- thatjoeoverthr 5y agoI had that book and talked to him once on IRC. I remember learning of his death. Very sad.
- pjmlp 5y agoYes, that was back in the day I still used to subscribe to Linux Format, had an email signature with something M$ on it and still believed on the year of desktop Linux. Also when Sam still tried to make a living out of selling SDL support without much luck. Nowadays the only way to get studios to care is to port Windows binaris into Linux, despite Android, even Google is now creating their own flavour of Windows emulation for Stadia (not that will save Stadia anyway).