Re: Catakig 2

[Colin Klipsch <cklipsch@radix.net>]

In article <1161355123.380606.135240@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Colin Klipsch wrote:
> > > Catakig 2 is for MacOS X systems ...

> How much of this is Mac-specific?  Can it be ported to use a library
> like SDL or GTK?

The source code is divided pretty cleanly into a Mac-dependent portion 
and a Mac-ignorant portion.

The Apple II emulation "engine" portion doesn't know anything about 
MacOS X.  But it does need Objective-C, FoundationKit, and standard 
Unix/POSIX APIs.  As Lyrical Nanoha points out, it could probably be 
ported to GNUStep, and without too much trouble.  That was in fact one 
of my goals while writing it.

And, you could write an SDL- or GTK-based application around the engine, 
provided you had the requirements listed above.  Since GTK has no audio 
support though (as I understand it), you'd have to bring in something 
like OpenAL in order to play the sound output.

> Does it work for x86 Macs natively, or through compatibility mode?

Catakig 2 is a "Universal Binary" -- meaning it's compiled for both the 
PPC and Intel architectures, both of which are then supported in the 
final executable.  (That's the form most Mac software takes these days.)  
So yes, it runs natively on Intel.