Re: FYI: Lua on the Dreamcast
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- Subject: Re: FYI: Lua on the Dreamcast
- From: Ken Rawlings <krawling@...>
- Date: 1999年7月10日 17:24:54 -0500 (EST)
>(including my own ;). Who'd've thought that learning Lua would turn out
>to be a marketable skill in the games industry?! Thanks for the info.
No doubt! Out of curiosity, what are most games developers using Lua for?
> My understanding is that the DC's OS is _based_ on Windows CE, but has
> been modified a bit. Still, the development environment is supposed to be
It's been a little while since I looked into Dreamcast development,
but my understanding is that the Dreamcast has 2 OSes. The first is
a Dreamcast specific OS(much like the Saturn and Genesis had) that
lets you squeeze speed out of the hardware, and the second is a
modified version of CE that has DirectX and speed improvements.
> Regarding other messages re: porting to CE and unicode characters, I
> guess they must've solved that issue. Perhaps Sega could be convinced
I'd be surprised if they actually modified Lua for full Unicode. You
can easily write programs for CE that use "char *" for all internal
strings and then call some conversion function to Unicode whenever you
want to make an OS call.
Speaking of porting to CE, if anyone knows of an open-source equivalent
of a vsprintf implementation that is fairly standalone(i.e. it doesn't
require big parts of the rest of stdio and doesn't make any internal
compiler function calls), please let me know.
_Ken