On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:17:55PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>
> >>On a sidenote: java is not bad for such type of games too with the added
> >>advantage of being crossplatform. Also, a lot of games already exist with
> >>available source code.
> >>A while back i looked at game programming and studied it a bit. In java
> >>the basics that go for c++ game programming still are valid in java.
> >>For instance the need for double buffering, drawing in a memory screen
> >>dump before copying it to the screen to get faster updating and less
> >>flickering to name just one thing.
> >>
> Java really is a poor choice for Debian as the implementations of Java
> by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian.
What about Kaffe? I haven't used it, but from what I understand, AWT is
there. Not much Swing though.
Just my two cents,
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