Re: [Chicken-users] 3D games in Chicken

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> Why shouldn't the gaming console of tomorrow use Linux and standard
> APIs and tools?
>   
They might; for instance, I believe the Playstation3 is going to use 
some kind of Linux and OpenGL.  The problem is, people usually need to 
worry about making a profit today.  Linux isn't going anywhere as a 
consumer desktop OS.  I think you have it figured correctly, that it 
could end up being used as an embedded OS, such as for a console or 
arcade machine.  Also of course Linux is relevant as a game server.

If you like the SDL universe then you might check out Agar.  
http://agar.csoft.org/  It describes itself thusly:

"The Agar project produces a portable and window system independent 
graphics toolkit for SDL and OpenGL®. For a complete listing of what is 
included in the core Agar distribution, see the Agar libraries page.

"Agar is being used by applications such as emulators, scientific 
simulations, visualization tools and SDL/OpenGL games. Some other 
actively developed csoft.org projects which use Agar include Agar-SG (3D 
scene graph and physics simulation framework), Agar-SC (scientific 
computing toolkit which includes a set of Agar widgets), and Agar-EDA 
(electronic simulation and design toolkit)."


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every