Progress report

Posted by Johannes Stein on Dec 31, 2009 in Development, Libraries, Linux | 0 comments

So, before the year is coming to an end, I’m giving a small progress report on what I’m working right now and what’s to come:

Elysion Frameworks: I’m still figuring which unit should depend on which unit, so you have the option: You can either use Elysion$(InsertSubset), e.g. ElysionLegacy which includes audio, graphics and font output and so on or you can just use every unit you want to, like “uses ElysionApplication, ElysionBitmapFont, … ” and so on.

FreePascal GP2X Wiz Cross-Compiler for Linux: My Wiz arrived yesterday and it’s better than I expected. I like that it can be charged via USB and doesn’t use AA batteries any more (even though I am fond of the idea of using AA batteries). Also the smaller and more compact design is great and the touchscreen definitely improved from the GP2X F200. A shame that there aren’t a lot of games supporting touchscreen.
I’ve uploaded this a while back and it works on the Wiz as long it’s simple (just using SDL library, no friends like SDL_image, SDL_mixer, etc.). When I tested a more complex application it was just a black screen or was stuck at the loading screen. So, that needs a little bit of fixing, but it’s still great to have one executable which works on all three GP2X platforms (F100/F200/Wiz) while C/C++ programmers have to recompile their applications.