sdl12-compat Gets More Games Working For This SDL1-On-SDL2 Compatibility Layer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: sdl12-compat Gets More Games Working For This SDL1-On-SDL2 Compatibility Layer

The sdl12-compat project that implements the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for better game compatibility on modern Linux systems is out today with a new pre-release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/sdl-compat-1.2.62

[StefanBruens]

Great work.
Now we only need a gstreamer 0.10 wrapper.

[stompcrash]

I'm already running grafx2 without problems. Maybe my system still has SDL 1.2 libraries. But looking at grafx2 source it looks like it already does support SDL 2.

[mos87]

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (the 22-year-old binaries from Loki!)

yeah, now if only most Loki ports didn't suffer from a heap of other problems... SMAC very much included. But the biggest of them isn't even compatibility per se - sometimes it's overcome-able (at least in theory, see eg https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/issues/176 ) - but the sheer amount of fixes community has produced over the years to fix a garbazillion of bugs (funny how the publishers never bother to do it eh)... And that almost exclusively come in the form of some binary patch.. for the win/dos executable obviously.

still a nice shim in general

[ClosedSource]

Awesome, but a slippery slope. wait till they end up implementing functionality from scratch.

[drake23]

This is great for ut2004 !

[Lanz]

Glad to see Quake2XP on the list.

[stiiixy]

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (the 22-year-old binaries from Loki!)

yeah, now if only most Loki ports didn't suffer from a heap of other problems... SMAC very much included. But the biggest of them isn't even compatibility per se - sometimes it's overcome-able (at least in theory, see eg https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/issues/176 ) - but the sheer amount of fixes community has produced over the years to fix a garbazillion of bugs (funny how the publishers never bother to do it eh)... And that almost exclusively come in the form of some binary patch.. for the win/dos executable obviously.

still a nice shim in general

GLSMAC. Now, for a vulkan update 🙃 VCMI is good for Heroes III, and works on Android.

[mos87]

GLSMAC. Now, for a vulkan update 🙃 VCMI is good for Heroes III, and works on Android.

ugh... ok
not sure how is any of this relevant tho but ok

[mos87]

Awesome, but a slippery slope. wait till they end up implementing functionality from scratch.

erm.. care to elaborate?