On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:20:49PM +0100, jeanmarc.eber@lexifi.com wrote:
> > Quoting Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>: 
> >  
> > What's the problem about that ? Why :(((( ? 
> > Isn't it fine that ocaml is used *natively* on the win32 platform also ? 
> 
> Yes, but that would mean that the apps developped for it will only be
> usable for on windows only, which let many people out in the cold. In
> particular, i would love to play a ocaml based games, not that i have
> time for it but still, but since i don't have windows, ...
> 
> Also, i remember when i was some time back at the AFIG conference, there
> where the people making the outcast games explaining how they did their
> software rendering and all, and i asked them about a linux port, since
> they software was not using any hardware acceleration, in these pre-DRI
> times it would have been a good candidate for a linux port. They
> esquived my question, and look where they are now ? Maybe the publicity
> coup they would have made with releasing a linux games would have saved
> them.

Hands off Outcast please. Besides i doubt that Appeal's failure has 
anything to do with Outcast being windows only. And btw Outcast was 
instrumental in one person's switch to OCaml.

P.S. http://algol.prosalg.no/~malc/motazaar/

-- 
mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com

-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners