[ITA] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[ITA] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[David Stacey]

# 32-bit:
BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/32bit/release
wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories 
--cut-dirs=5 \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-3.0a-1-src.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-3.0a-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-debuginfo/foobillard-debuginfo-3.0a-1.tar.xz 
\
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-debuginfo/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/setup.hint


# 64-bit:
BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/64bit/release
wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories 
--cut-dirs=5 \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-3.0a-1-src.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-3.0a-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-debuginfo/foobillard-debuginfo-3.0a-1.tar.xz 
\
${BASEURL}/foobillard/foobillard-debuginfo/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/foobillard/setup.hint


Built this to try out SDL that was added to Cygwin recently. Sadly,
performance of the game is rather disappointing compared to the native
Linux version running on the same hardware. Consequently, you might
decide that this is not appropriate for Cygwin just yet, or it might
only have value as a benchmarking aid for Cygwin/X. Or you might
consider that the performance is actually pretty impressive, given the
number of emulation layers involved :-)

This is the 'hobbled' version from Fedora with the non-free fonts
removed. As per Fedora, DejaVu-Sans has been substituted, so you will
need font-dejavu-ttf from CygwinPorts. Yaakov: If foobillard is
accepted into Cygwin, would you mind awfully bringing this font package
over, please?

There are two other patches, both from Fedora.

Feel free to reject this on performance grounds if you think it is
unplayable. However, if someone gets some enjoyment out of it then I'm
happy to maintain it.

Dave.

Re: [ITA] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[David Stacey]

Subject line: s/ITA/ITP/ - sorry.

Re: [ITP] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 21:21 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
> Built this to try out SDL that was added to Cygwin recently. Sadly,
> performance of the game is rather disappointing compared to the native
> Linux version running on the same hardware. Consequently, you might
> decide that this is not appropriate for Cygwin just yet, or it might
> only have value as a benchmarking aid for Cygwin/X. Or you might
> consider that the performance is actually pretty impressive, given the
> number of emulation layers involved :-)

I didn't try comparing it to Linux, but it seemed playable to me.  You
may want to try enabling direct hardware-accelerated rendering[1] in
multiwindow mode, e.g.:

DISPLAY=:0 LIBGL_USE_WGL=1 foobillard

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-aiglx.html

> This is the 'hobbled' version from Fedora with the non-free fonts
> removed.

This is correct, thank you.

> As per Fedora, DejaVu-Sans has been substituted, so you will need
> font-dejavu-ttf from CygwinPorts.  Yaakov: If foobillard is accepted
> into Cygwin, would you mind awfully bringing this font package over, please?

Done.

GTG, thanks.  Please upload whenever you're ready.

--
Yaakov

Re: [ITP] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[David Stacey]

On 25/06/2015 03:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> GTG, thanks.  Please upload whenever you're ready.

Please could you update cygwin-pkg-maint, as Yaakov is listed as 
maintainer and this is stopping me uploading.

Many thanks in advance,

Dave.

Re: [ITP] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 21:16 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
> On 25/06/2015 03:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > GTG, thanks.  Please upload whenever you're ready.
> 
> Please could you update cygwin-pkg-maint, as Yaakov is listed as 
> maintainer and this is stopping me uploading.

Sorry, copy-and-paste error.  Fixed.

--
Yaakov

Re: [ITP] foobillard - OpenGL snooker / pool game

[David Stacey]

On 25/06/15 03:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 21:21 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
>> Built this to try out SDL that was added to Cygwin recently. Sadly,
>> performance of the game is rather disappointing compared to the native
>> Linux version running on the same hardware. Consequently, you might
>> decide that this is not appropriate for Cygwin just yet, or it might
>> only have value as a benchmarking aid for Cygwin/X. Or you might
>> consider that the performance is actually pretty impressive, given the
>> number of emulation layers involved:-)
> I didn't try comparing it to Linux, but it seemed playable to me.  You
> may want to try enabling direct hardware-accelerated rendering[1] in
> multiwindow mode, e.g.:
>
> DISPLAY=:0 LIBGL_USE_WGL=1 foobillard
>
> [1]http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-aiglx.html

Thanks for the hint. My word - what an incredible difference that makes! 
On the rather modest machine I was testing with, that must have 
increased the framerate tenfold. I have included that tip in the 
announcement.

Dave.