Report on SDL Maelstrom

Josh Huber huberj at WPI.EDU
Wed Jul 1 06:45:10 PDT 1998


On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:

> The Maelstrom port to SDL is coming along nicely:
great, I loved that game - it's classic! :)

> I want to add a few features to the final port:
> 
> * Much better network dialog and error handling
> * AI for computer opponents!
> 
> Of course, the final release depends on Andrew Welch's okay,
> and may end up being a commercial product (Yay! $$$)
I'm sure he's probably _very_ busy doing what he does, but maybe he'd be a
good person to attempt at the macos port of SDL. :)

Keep in mind that the macos doesn't use sockets (STREAMS), so that makes
cross platform networking hard unless you add a network API into SDL
(sweet! :)

ttyl,
Josh

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