[plt-scheme] Ludum Dare entry done in Scheme

From: Tomi Neste (tomi.neste at netikka.fi)
Date: Fri Feb 29 08:56:16 EST 2008

Henk Boom <lunarc.lists at gmail.com> kirjoitti Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:58:07  
+0200:

> On 28/02/2008, Jon Rafkind <workmin at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Your game was really great, I enjoyed playing it! The source didn't look
>>  too bad.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> What is your opinion working with SDL?
>
> Overall, I like it. It's simple to use, and lets you control your own
> main loop. The libraries for images and sound are also quite useful.
>
> I had some trouble wrapping its event structures: the foreign.ss
> library seems not to support unions, so I have to guess the size of
> the SDL_Event structure based on the max of the other structures.
>
> Was there anything in particular you wanted to know?
>
>     Henk
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Have you or anyone else tried the bindings on OS X? ISTR that at least  
some Common Lisp implementations have trouble with SDL on Mac (something  
to do with SDL's event handler running in different thread or something).

-- 
tomppa


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