Gah, where do I start?

[Serenok]

I've been studying pascal in school for a semester and i've made a couple games in the console/ASCII

I've made a game where a computer player chases you
I've made a pong clone (Was easy for me)
I've half-made space invaders (Got the shooting and the enemy)

So a couple of questions,
1) When am I ready to learn a graphics library or whatever you call it? Because the restrictions of the console are really getting to me.
2) Should I be able to make a pac-man clone?
3) What is a popular graphics library?
4) This site confuses, is this the right board to post this on?

[paul_nicholls]

Hi Serenok, welcome to the forums

For graphics, I would recommend SDL (Simple Direct-media Library).

You can get the SDL DLLs (windows), and .so files for linux here:

http://www.libsdl.org/

You can get freepascal/Delphi bindings for this here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedi-sdl/

There are lots of tutorials around on the net, and the Jedi-SDL code comes with demos too

With SDL, you can make programs what will work with minimal changes on Win32, Linux, Max OSX, and other platforms (even handheld devices like the gp2x).

I hope this helps

cheers,
Paul

[Serenok]

Hi Serenok, welcome to the forums

For graphics, I would recommend SDL (Simple Direct-media Library).

You can get the SDL DLLs (windows), and .so files for linux here:

http://www.libsdl.org/

You can get freepascal/Delphi bindings for this here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedi-sdl/

There are lots of tutorials around on the net, and the Jedi-SDL code comes with demos too

With SDL, you can make programs what will work with minimal changes on Win32, Linux, Max OSX, and other platforms (even handheld devices like the gp2x).

I hope this helps

cheers,
Paul

Thank you, what a nice reply.
What should I be googling for tutorials on how to use these libraries?

[paul_nicholls]

Well, they might be in C/C++, but this site seems to have good tutorials (see links on right-hand side).

http://www.sdltutorials.com/

should be easy to convert to Pascal format

cheers,
Paul

[Serenok]

Well, they might be in C/C++, but this site seems to have good tutorials (see links on right-hand side).

http://www.sdltutorials.com/

should be easy to convert to Pascal format

cheers,
Paul

That's actually good because I already know some C++ and will be switching over to it in a month or to.
My knowledge of SDL would carry over, right?

[paul_nicholls]

Your knowledge of SDL will be very handy even after you switch over - SDL still works the same way (or very close) in C/C++ as in Pascal with regards to how you use the routines

The only thing that will changes is the names of some of the types of course

PSDL_Surface in pascal and SDL_Surface in C I believe...

cheers,
Paul

[Serenok]

Your knowledge of SDL will be very handy even after you switch over - SDL still works the same way (or very close) in C/C++ as in Pascal with regards to how you use the routines

The only thing that will changes is the names of some of the types of course

PSDL_Surface in pascal and SDL_Surface in C I believe...

cheers,
Paul

Ok, well I downloaded the Jedi-SDL file and opened the demos but when I open the files (in bloodshed dev-pascal) it doesn't compile.
Any tutorials on how to make the games (2d) work?

[paul_nicholls]

Your knowledge of SDL will be very handy even after you switch over - SDL still works the same way (or very close) in C/C++ as in Pascal with regards to how you use the routines

The only thing that will changes is the names of some of the types of course

PSDL_Surface in pascal and SDL_Surface in C I believe...

cheers,
Paul

Ok, well I downloaded the Jedi-SDL file and opened the demos but when I open the files (in bloodshed dev-pascal) it doesn't compile.
Any tutorials on how to make the games (2d) work?

what error(s) did you get?

cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

BTW, if you go to the Jedi-SDL forum:

http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...php?board=23.0

You might be able to find more help there

Especially this topic (setup SDL for freepascal/lazarus though, not bloodshed dev-pascal):

http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...p?topic=3973.0

cheers,
Paul

[Serenok]

BTW, if you go to the Jedi-SDL forum:

http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...php?board=23.0

You might be able to find more help there

Especially this topic (setup SDL for freepascal/lazarus though, not bloodshed dev-pascal):

http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...p?topic=3973.0

cheers,
Paul

Oh, well bloodshed dev-pascal is using freepascal it's just the program is bloodshed (if you know what I mean)