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I used to play videos with the framebuffer just fine and read PDF's with fbpdf2, among watching TV with fbtv and the like. I didn't miss nearly anything, as mos
by anthk 6mo ago
I used to play videos with the framebuffer just fine and read PDF's with fbpdf2, among watching TV with fbtv and the like. I didn't miss nearly anything, as most games under SDL1/2 can render into FB with
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon
or
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=kmsdrm
And tons of games too, such as Supertux2, Crispy Doom, SDLQuake, FreeCiv-SDL...
- antisol 6mo agoanother fun one if you're in an exotic situation and don't have a framebuffer (or if you just want to have some fun by making your games to look worse): export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib unfortunately it's only SDL1, though
- capitainenemo 6mo agoexport SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca is more usable for games
- antisol 6mo agoOh nice! How did I not know it works with caca?!
- capitainenemo 6mo agoWorks pretty well even. I wish there was a libchafa variant, and ideally for SDL2. I've even played SC2, The Ur-Quan masters fairly successfully in an ssh session that way. And Frozen Bubble.
- sylware 6mo agoThis is what I meant: kmsdrm.