[Coco] VCC Released To Open Source Project !!!

[Barry Nelson]

 I should have a Macintosh app ready in a few weeks, maybe less. I would have it it a few days if I wasn't busy with work. I might still have it in a few days. I will leverage Wine bottler to build an app that will run on intel Macs. I suggest using Wine lib and linking against that if someone wants a Linux binary. This is assuming that version 2.0 of VCC works under Wine, but version 1.43 ran very well. Now that it is GPL, the license is compatible with bundling with the Wine libraries.

On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:40 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:21:13 -0400
> From: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
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> A linux port will be a tedious and long project. The actual core C++ code will not be the problem. It's all the DirectX references that will have to be converted to some cross-platform support such as OpenGL or something of that nature.
> Almost all sound, video, joysticks and keyboard routines depend on DirectX 9. This will be the biggest hurdle in getting it to Linux & Mac.
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> Bill Pierce
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