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WILL
31-10-2011, 10:57 AM
There is quite a number of systems that you can now compile an Object Pascal based game onto now. Which of these platforms do you have?

Andru
31-10-2011, 11:04 AM
At home I use Linux most of time, Windows only for games(but I don't remember when I played last time :)) and my phone is simple LG Optimus One on Android 2.2.1. MacOS X is only in VirtualBox, so I didn't vote for it.

JSoftware
31-10-2011, 12:42 PM
Well that's an easy one.. I have a fairly crappy Windows computer currently :)

Stoney
31-10-2011, 07:02 PM
I kinda feel bad, I have a lot of devices:

A Windows PC (self-built; not the latest hardware, a Core i3 with 4 gigs of RAM), used primarily for gaming and watching videos. (Once in a while I use that one to boot up Linux)
MacBook Pro 2009 (Used primarily for making graphics in Blender and testing Mac application in Lion)
MacBook 2007 (My second mac development machine, running Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger)
ASUS Eee 1003H (This one is almost broken, but I use it to test my games on netbook configurations; runs Linux)
Dell Venue Pro (Windows 7 Phone)
Huawei Ideos X3 (Android 2.3)
iPod Touch 4 (Have done more Objective-C than Pascal development for this though)
Xbox 360 (While I wanted to release a XBLIG game, something went wrong with my App Hub registration :( )

paul_nicholls
01-11-2011, 02:54 AM
Hiapad M7 (Android 2.3)
Notebook PC with Windows Vista Home Premium and Ubuntu 11.04 installed.

wagenheimer
01-11-2011, 11:03 AM
Don't feel too bad stoney! =)

- A Windows PC (self-built, Core i5 with 8gb Ram, HD SSD, Radeon 6870), used for Development and Gaming.
- An iMac (Core 2 Duo), used for Mac Development
- A Dell Core i5 Windows Notebook (To my wife play my games =) and surf internet)
- An AMD Atlon 1200+ Desktop, very old, but works well for my Home Cinema.
- Nintendo Wii Videogame
- XBox 360 Videogame (I have tested a Rabbit Jump prototype on it, but the casual market on Xbox is a bit disappointing, so I don't released nothing for it yet).
- An Iphone 3GS
- And IPAD 2

paul_nicholls
01-11-2011, 11:30 AM
I forgot to mention that I also have a Nintendo Wii too LOL

Ñuño Martínez
01-11-2011, 11:42 AM
May be you can add GameCube and Wii. I know the FPC support isn't official, but it supports PowerPC and there are information in the wiki.

I own Windows, Linux (most used), GameBoy Advance, GameCube and Wii. :)

vgo
01-11-2011, 12:27 PM
Windows XP and 7, I have a Linux box too but it's only for IRC and other TTY stuff and the only game on it is Nethack. :)

code_glitch
01-11-2011, 04:21 PM
I have:
Android (phone v.soon, next week hopefully) and AndroidX86 for my tablet PC
Linux (1 outstanding Ubuntu 10.10 x64 box to be converted, 3 Linux Mint 11 x64 boxes)
Gameboy, DS, Wii
PSP with cfw
Windows BUT it has been 9 months since I booted that thing and don't see it happening any time soon, so I didn't vote for it.

LP
01-11-2011, 04:26 PM
It is interesting to see that at least half of contestants own a Linux-based system. May I ask what were your reasons for moving from Windows to Linux OS? What edition do you use? How is the stability and driver support?

By the way, seems I'm one of the few who own a Blackberry. :(

Andru
01-11-2011, 05:56 PM
May I ask what were your reasons for moving from Windows to Linux OS?
Because it fully customizable and with much better font rendering. Many other aspects just a details, which always bring people to holy wars :)


What edition do you use?
ArchLinux with GNOME 3 in fall-back mode(classic mode in other words).


How is the stability and driver support?
Everything just works for me(except ATI drivers, which are crappy as in Windows, but fortunately in Linux I have open source realization), in many cases without a need to search drivers over all internet, as it was today at work for my LG Optimus One(Windows 7 wasn't able to connect it for developing).

code_glitch
01-11-2011, 06:14 PM
@Andru:


which always bring people to holy wars :)

Wise words, I'm afraid I may just start one, I don't mean to so I'll try and keep the specifics out of it...

@Lifepower:
I use x64 linux mint 11 (katya as its called), themed like a mac although you could do anything you wanted. I still sport GNOME 2 for my desktop as many people do. If its your first linux install I would recommend mint - no console faff. Just boot, hook up to the net (optional) click next a few times, tell it where to place the install on the HDD, answer 3 questions about username and password, click your country and wait 15 minutes. Done, all in a nice GUI (keeping in livecd tradition) :)

Why: Development is crazy, you get mono and wine - so a lot of windows stuff works, performance is inconceivable when coming from windows in many cases. Just try getting it to exceed 1.6GiB of RAM through normal usae with an XP VM, a LOT of firefox tabs, banshee, skype, compiz, LibreOffice writer, Geany and thunderbird :) Plus no antiviurs as Linux has no viruses targeting it

Stability: I have crashed windows a total of around 16 times over time, windows 7 thrice in 8 months... Linux crashes: 2 - due to absolute idiocy on my behalf - if you have a few braincells this never happens. Like mucking with the file system on a root level (DUH). Linux IS the most stable platform (same as mac - common ancestry through BSD)

Drivers: I am cursed by an ATI card that royally muck up windows (hybrid GPU :) ). I use the fglrx drivers, crappy but I've only had 1 issue with docky, so I set up a keyboard shortcut to restart it once a week ;) And yes, I call it unstable as a linux user - it messes up once a week. For the record I reboot once a fortnight.

Nicenesses: lets say I want to install some programs that are quite common, like freepascal compiler, geany IDE and chromium (google chrome for linux) I just need to type in:


sudo apt-get install fpc geany chromium-browser


Or on arch I believe it'd be something like


sudo pacman -S fpc geany chromium-browser


No downloading stupid exes from random places.... Nice.

And wait a minute or two for the packages to be downloaded and installed - no intervention unless you are installing some proprietary 3rd party stuff that needs you to hit space to say you accept a license once in a blue moon ;)

Hope you get to take a distro for a spin sometime...

LP
01-11-2011, 06:39 PM
Andru and code_glitch, thanks for your answers!


Many other aspects just a details, which always bring people to holy wars :)
This was not my intention. I know that some of these discussions can get heated up. I've asked this because lately on Eee PC forums there is an increased number of users installing Linux replacing existing Windows 7 Starter installations. It starts to look like a trend.

In my own case I've haven't used Linux for many years (I think since 2003). Even though Windows Vista and 7 never crashed on me, I'd still like to try some edition of Linux, just haven't decided yet which one to choose.

code_glitch
01-11-2011, 07:18 PM
The truth behind it is that every distro was designed for a purpose - yes arch does many things very well, its just the easiest/best looking setup the world has seen, yes ubuntu is a fine all rounder, if you don't mind ugly unity and all that other bulk the developers have added without asking anybody (kind of defeats the point of linux), yes mint is more compatible with debian and does a lot of things well (I personally think it does everything the best but I'm trying to avoid a holy war) but its still bulky, has its glitches with some ubuntu stuff and I hate the default branding. Its not bad, its just good at a specific area.

Window 7 Start is a joke - you pay for windows but can only have 3 windows open, up to 2gib of RAM and basically nothing you would want... All in a lot of Gibs of installation files - something at a premium on eee PCs. God above, even the default DSL livecd is better (and more featured) than 7 starter plus it fits in 48megs!

Cybermonkey
02-11-2011, 08:35 AM
It is interesting to see that at least half of contestants own a Linux-based system. May I ask what were your reasons for moving from Windows to Linux OS? What edition do you use? How is the stability and driver support?

I use both Kubuntu 11.10 and Mageia 1. I started to switching to Linux long ago. My first Red Hat based distribution was shipped on 3,5" floppy disks ... but was a pain to install. KDE 1 wasn't that nice either. ;)
Since Windows 95 I was looking for an alternative for WinDos. I had a look at OS/2 but it obviously failed to gain a market share. Linux has now the best "support" of alternative systems. But a long time I used the BeOS Personal Edition so I always have a close look at the Haiku-OS. (Which should be added to the list because FPC runs on it ...)

Ñuño Martínez
02-11-2011, 09:12 AM
It is interesting to see that at least half of contestants own a Linux-based system. May I ask what were your reasons for moving from Windows to Linux OS? Actually because I can't use OS/2.

I used OS/2 3 Warp in the '90s and I think it is the most stable, user friendly PC operating system ever, even nowadays. Unfortunately it's almost dead (IBM tried to open-sourced it several times but Microsoft vetoed it always). Currently there are "eCom Station" but it isn't the same and cannot compete with Windows in the most modern computers.

When I changed my home computer and I realized that I cannot use OS/2, I moved to Linux (Redhat IIRC). I was using it occasionally and I found it recovers from my programming errors better than Windows.


What edition do you use? Xubuntu in both computers (an old IBM desktop and a new DeLL laptop), but I'm tempted by Mint.

The IBM has an OEM WindowsXP too. I use it only to play and to test the Windows version of Allegro.pas. ;)


How is the stability and driver support? Not sure why but I never have it tuned perfectly, may be because Xfce has fewer support than famous KDE and Gnome, but my home computer isn't powerful enough to support anything "bigger" than that (good old Pentium IV 1.8 Ghz). By the way, the latest Xubuntu (11.10) seems to be much more stable, less buggy and more ease to configure than previous releases, but it's slightly slower.

Unfortunately, Intel graphics support is broken. I've read that they know why it doesn't work (the driver doesn't reserve the graphics RAM correctly as it's shared with conventional RAM so system and graphics becomes mixed after some time...) but I don't understand why they decided to drop off the OpenGL support instead of fix it (Windows XP has full OpenGL support and it's fast and safe. Actually old Kubuntu 8/9 had full OpenGL support and was fast and stable!). AFAIK this problem isn't fixed in any Linux.

The DeLL laptop has an nVidia that works, but I've found that it isn't able to render some effects. Not sure if it's problem of the graphics card itself or because I didn't configured it correctly or because I'm using the open-sourced driver. :S

chronozphere
02-11-2011, 11:13 AM
I've got:
> desktop dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 (AMD Althon 64X2, 4GB RAM, Geforce 8600GT).
> HP Proliant microserver with Atom CPU and 4GB ram running Archlinux
> A 3 year old laptop running Windows XP with a Celeron CPU and Geforce 7400 (I should install linux on this one)
> EEE Pad transformer tablet
> A very old PIII system standing lonely in the corner of my room :(

Two years ago I decided to make a move from windows to linux. Because I can't do that at once, I installed a dual-boot which I'm still using today. I started with Ubuntu 9.10 which is now upgraded to 10.04. I did that because I got in touch with it during a programming course at uni and I discovered that some friends of mine were quite enthousiastic about the OS. After playing it, I learned that the the commandline interface is very powerfull and allows you maximum control and ability to learn how things actually work.

I'm starting to dislike Ubuntu because it's quite bulky and still does not always have the packages I need. I discovered arch a couple of months ago and I installed it on a new home-server I bought. It's a big improvement, allthough you must take your time to install things and troubleshoot (when neccesary). I use my homeserver mainly for backups, downloads and hosting my own repositories. I'm still looking for other nice ways to put it to use, because I'm not using it to it's max potential (200MB of the 4GB of RAM is actually used lol).

de_jean_7777
02-11-2011, 03:30 PM
I've got a
- Lenovo G700a laptop with Windows 7 and Fedora 15 dual-boot (i3 2310-M, 4GB DDR3, Intel HD3000 and Radeon HD6650 switchable graphics)
- Samsung Galaxy Ace with android 2.3.7 (unofficial cyanogenmod port)
- ASUS EEE Pad Transformer with Android 3.2
- Athlon II X240, 4GB RAM and Windows 7 at home (I use this rarely as now it's most family computer)
- ASUS 1000HE laptop running Fedora, with a broken screen (serves as a server for SVN and other stuff)

In the future, I also plan to get a Mac machine and some iDevices if my android projects become financially viable. But this is currently only a plan. I may also get some gaming consoles (xbox360, ps3) but it's unlikely I'll develop for these machines.

LP
03-11-2011, 06:09 AM
By the way, out of curiosity, anyone tried running React OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS), which is a free and open-source Windows-compliant alternative? The screenshot on Wikipedia seems pretty convincing. :)

Cybermonkey
03-11-2011, 09:34 AM
By the way, out of curiosity, anyone tried running React OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS), which is a free and open-source Windows-compliant alternative? The screenshot on Wikipedia seems pretty convincing. :)
Yes, I tried it in Virtualbox. Freepascal (Windows version) works, Lazarus does not. GUI programs for ReactOS can be done with fpGUI. Now I am waiting for the next release ...

Super Vegeta
09-11-2011, 11:53 PM
A PC at home and a Toughbook laptop, both Linux+Win32.

On PC I have Windows Vista - arghh. Since my parents bought the computer quite soon after Vista was released, they purchased it. I am planning on switching to Windows 7 from MSDN AA, though. Linux distro here is Linux Mint, as it has a nice GUI and everything is quite user-friendly. Only had some minor issues with sound card drivers (Sound Blaster X-Fi). A shame I can't get FPC to compile anything using non-standard units.

Toughbook has WinXP - I would not even dare trying W7. XP runs quite nice, though I use it mainly for gaming. Linux distro here is Fedora, running an LXDE desktop. So far my only problem is being unable to find a working driver for the touchscreen, but other than that, I daresay everything runs like a dream.

Reasons to moving from Win to Linux? I was curious about Linux for a long time, but I only gave it a try after I got my own computer. One of the reasons was also going to university - I knew there would be some subjects regarding Unix\Linux, so I thought it could be good to check it earlier. After some adventures with different distros (I tried six or even seven), repartitioning the HDD several times, et cetera, I decided to stick to Fedora+LXDE. Now, over a year later, I use mostly Linux, mainly for being able to change literally everything in the system's runnings (not that I was lucky enough never to have it not running after some of my experiments...), it's stability and ability to be customized. Running programs with WinKey+Letter is wonderful - and addictive, to the point I created registry entries for like 20 apps in WinXP just to be able to run them via the Win+R "Run application" applet.

A funny fact to end the post - when at home, I most often use both computers. I work at the PC, with the laptop sharing it's disk via NFS. No need to worry about transfering files or whatever.

Ñuño Martínez
14-11-2011, 10:17 PM
By the way, out of curiosity, anyone tried running React OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS), which is a free and open-source Windows-compliant alternative? The screenshot on Wikipedia seems pretty convincing. :) I did test it a long time ago. It was quite stable but has a feel of WIP everywhere.

Don't know how much it changed from that.