Comments - MolderingDevTeam

Thanks everyone, the encouraging words always help especially with a project like this!

This too was a great childhood game of mine... I'm gonna give you a big, thank you!

I love the fact that this is just killing animals that are in general, quite harmless...

F*&$ing hilarious, actually made me giggle.

Okay, I will look into this. I'm glad you brought it to my attention. At the moment I haven't done any testing on Linux in a long time. I had it running on Ubuntu a long while back, but not since I've added a few external libraries. I think a good idea would be for me to dig through all my old builds and see if I have the JOAL libraries backed-up somewhere. Otherwise, like you said, my best bet is to probably switch over to 1.1.3.

Here is what I found in the readme, which might help:

OpenAL comes with various Linux distributions. You might have it already.
If not, try rpmfind, apt-get or emerge.

More up-to-date versions are available from openal.org in the
downloads section. Install first the openal-[version].i586.rpm and
then the openal-devel-[version]-i586.rpm. Unfortunately, due to
confusion in the OpenAL version numbering, the version from
openal.org may seem to be "older" than the version preinstalled on
the Linux distribution, even though it is more recent. To work
around this problem, do the following steps:

# rpm --force --upgrade openal-0.0.8-1.i586.rpm
# rpm -i openal-devel-0.0.8-1.i586.rpm

Now test to make sure the RPMs are installed:

# rpm -qa | grep -i openal
openal-0.0.8-1
openal-devel-0.0.8-1

For the newest version you need to compile OpenAL yourself from CVS:

-- follow the instruction at www.openal.org to check out a fresh copy
-- in the linux subdir type './autogen.sh
-- look at the build options with ./configure --help
-- configure it with./configure --enable-sdl --enable-vorbis [-enable-more]
(see openal.spec for a full set)
-- build it with make && make test and run the tests
-- as root type make install
-- add /usr/local/lib to you /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig

Let me know if this works, I'm very interested.

I can't seem to find any evidence of which JOAL I am using. I probably should have kept a little bit better documentation, but since I added that part of the code almost a year ago I can't be certain. I did find in the readme some preparations that might help. Also, since this part of the code is working I likely won't be changing it. However, I do plan to test the code on Linux and Mac before a final release and work hard to release it on all three major platforms.

Haha, because it is only a few days old! Good to see you found us again though!

I just want to state again, that there is a better version of this video here: Youtube.com . The Indie DB site would not let me load the video from the URL, which has music to make it more enjoyable :)

-Zach

I couldn't find the song I originally posted this with on YouTube, but it is better to watch with some music. Here is the link