Meh, I've never used automated binding tools. I just write all of my bindings to SDL manually so that I have full control over everything and make sure it works with the latest Lua, of which I use my own downloaded copy because the Debian package is STILL outdated by a few versions even in Ibex...
You can get a list of X windows open even from SDL via Xlib. But I don't think SDL itself can grab input from the root window and become thus a proper window manager.
I think the new X protocol library is libxcb, and it is supposed to be better than Xlib but I haven't tried it much yet. It...
I don't think Ubuntu MID is for ARM. Couldn't we take the Tamarin source code and implement our own free flash player on top of it? I don't know if it builds on ARM yet but multiple target CPU support is in the works still.
Wait... a VIA cpu and graphics (trying to) run Vista? ha. CPU cycle spec becomes less important when the CPU is a crap architecture from a crap brand running a bloated OS. Some benchmarking tests comparing that OQO thing with Pandora running Angstrom would be interesting to see. But the OQO's...
To reply to an earlier question, Google's Chrome is open source but it is intentionally bloatware for Web 2.0 and lacks extensions, and is locked to the Windows platform so it is mostly useless. But a free software WebKit browser for small devices would be greatly appreciated.
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I think the only thing capable of being emulated here is a subset of LuaPlayer apps (which are mostly demos and rubbish anyway). The PC emulator can't even play most C/C++ homebrew anyway so this sounds hopeless.
What I considered doing is eventually adding a LuaPlayer API compatibility wrapper...
I know the Pandora is powerful but I want to save that power for important tasks, which does not include running a excessive bloated browser.
Is there an open source WebKit based browser for small screen devices? That would be ideal.
What extension are the pieces of the file? If it were rar you would just extract the first one and the rest would automatically be extracted (with the correct software, of course).
If you own the original games you should just use free software to re-rip them into sane formats such as iso. I...
Does gmenu2x provide its own window manager or could we just use something like CTWM for having normal X11 apps (like xchat, pidgin, gedit, etc)? What library is gmenu written with anyway? I'm fairly sure that Xlib window manager code won't work with SDL (tried it once). But it is possible to...
I bet it would open all the way if one pushes hard enough (although it may or may not work after that).
Such a broken patent system. Another reason why I will never pay for a "codec license" even if they are easy to obtain in any GNU/Linux distro. I do not see a reason to feed the trolls that...
I use nrg2iso on *nix to convert nrg files to the correct, iso format. I absolutely hate software that only writes its own proprietary format. (That means a very big f*ck you to the makers of Nero and MagicISO for all those times I've spent googling for a solution to avoid their worthless...
For scripting, Lua is a simple language and very fast despite being interpreted. One could write a nice Lua interpreter with multimedia capabilities, and then a GUI that would help users generate scripts to make a game. But this would be a RAD tool and the real final project would be written in...
I've never used XBMC so I don't understand what aspect of it is a script. But adding Lua scripting to something is easy. I know Lua libs fairly well even though I am rusty on it and I'm currently trying to review things.