Found a nice flash game. Its called Captain Forever, you are a space ship and everyone is trying to kill you. You upgrade your ship by destroying others and salvaging their modules. Its pretty nice.
This page is about me trying to learn about creating an Operating System.
I started out trying to do this all in Windows and Mac OS X. However most tutorials and the required software is all written for linux. (Note while OS X has much similarities with linux the default ld command doesn’t work as shown in any of the tutorials.)
I set up a linux box with Ubuntu server and followed the Putty instructions on SSH Authentication so I don’t have to type in a password and a shortcut aswell. If you don’t have the hardware, I used VirtualBox on my Mac to run Ubuntu server. That will work for windows too and so will Microsoft VirtualPC.
I downloaded and installed the following:
Important Documents and Sites:
Book: Beginning 3D Game Programming by Tom Miller
I bought the book with the same name as the title to this post.
Two things to note:
Some Links:
My Simple Game Code
I have done a little bit of work and have gotten a BASIC asteroids clone done (just a player that can move and shoot (only 4 bullets on the screen at once ATM). There is enough there to strip out the files in the Game Group in Xcode (as long as there is the Game.h and Game.cpp files with the right methods), and replace with whatever you want.
Here is the Game Xcode project
Other Thoughts
Unreal Anthology and Linux
I spent a little bit of time getting my Unreal Anthology pack to work under Ubuntu 7.04. This pack only has the windows installer whereas some of the individual games had linux installers. If you don't have a linux installer this may help you. So far I’ve only tried Unreal Tournament 2004, or 2k4.
Here are the steps I followed to get it working:
apt-get install libopenalpp-cvs1 and then cp /usr/lib/libopenalpp.so.1.0.0 to openal.so in my UT2004/System dir.If anyone wants me to try and get the other games working let me know and I can try that.
I found how to do this from these websites:
Some forum with most of the useful info.
An Ubuntu forum which I used to find where to get openal and get that working (the openal instructions from the above link didn’t work for me).
Command and Conquer Gold FREE
Westwood/EA has released Command and Conquer gold for free. I tried downloading from their site but their links were broken for me. Internode also has the iso’s available.
You need 3 files:
I haven't tried playing this in Vista.