Briquolo

Forum: Games
Topic: Briquolo
started by: ke4nt1

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 15 2005,22:49

Briquolo

Awesome 3D breakout gameplay.
Requires XFree86.dsl + acceleration.

It's in the "testing" area of the repository for now.
< http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl_testing/ >

Screenie!

Nice work!

73
ke4nt

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 15 2005,23:05

I'd like to hear from someone who may have gotten this to work with just XFree86.
It seems like it shouldn't be so demanding, but I couldn't get it to run without both XFree86 and nvidia installed. It may be a result of building it on a system which has both XFree and nvidia, so it may be the fault of the extension creator.

Posted by clivesay on Jan. 16 2005,00:13

mikshaw -

This is one of the coolest games I have seen. When it changed the view where I was at the paddle level it freaked me out! Thank you for adding this one.

Chris

Posted by adraker on Jan. 16 2005,03:29

mikshaw-

I tried it with only XFree86.dsl and XF86Config-4
set to "nv"(driver).
Couldn't load libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0, no such file,
tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/briquolo/lib.
Same.Syntax?
Installed nvudia.dsl, reset XF86Config-4 driver
to "nvidia", restart wm, all is well.BTW,
game/package is fantastic, thankyou.
I don't get it.But thats what I found.

FYI

Posted by adraker on Jan. 16 2005,05:30

And another thing....
I just won't shut up, will I?

But seriously folks, having forced
PATH, it fails for want of GLX
extension/s provided by nvidia
driver.
Homepage Informations/What I need
section indicates open GL is needed.
Perhaps there's a compile option.
Which makes me ask myself if other
cards like Radeon etc, provide GL
in the drivers...I may never know,
as I have Nvidia....

HTH or was at least interesting.

Posted by adraker on Jan. 16 2005,22:31

Note to self-
Didn't work on Radeon in
HP laptop, but don't have
any special Radeon Driver.

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 16 2005,22:55

I'm guessing it's the 'GLX' which is causing trouble rather than 'GL'. XFree86.dsl provides openGL, which in many cases is suitable for 3D rendering. However, most games recommend glx on top of that, and apparently Briquolo requires it...at least the way this one was built. In any case, 3D gaming is always going to be much better if you have drivers installed which allow the graphics hardware to do most of the rendering work. Software rendering, at least with more recent graphics cards, is always much slower.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 19 2005,17:40

This is true.

But you may also own a newer computer with a big CPU and an unsupported 3D chipset.

In this situation, you may be able to get away with using XVesa and then use software rendering from your Pentium 4 or Athlon CPU.