[Coco] My Vcc project update.

[Mark D. Overholser]

Another update.

I have the keyboard and mouse events working correctly.  I am pretty 
happy at how easy (knock on wood) SDL2 is working out!

So at the moment I have the following left to do:
VCC special Func Key events
Joystick events
Gui Menu

Can anyone tell me if I need any kind of special joystick to work with 
VCC. I ask because I have never had/used a joystick on a PC before.

I have some PS3/PS4 bluetooth joysticks which I know can be used on a 
PC.  I hope these will do!!!

The GUI menu is going to be one of the more difficult conversions as I 
need to modify AGAR to work with SDL2.  I could regress SDL2 to SDL1.2 
which does work with AGAR.

But even without the GUI menus OVCC now works enough that I can test it 
on other platforms.  I can always make any of the changes made by using 
the menus by editing the vcc.ini file.  Crude but workable!

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark D. Overholser [mailto:marko555.os2 at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 
10 July 2018 4:58 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts; Walter
Subject: Re: [Coco] My Vcc project update.

On 09-Jul-18 04:15, Walter wrote:
> I left the tcc1014graphic.c module as it was. I could see it was
> directly manipulating a pixel memory buffer/area and that shouldn't
> change between directx or SDL.
> 
> The main changes are in the DirectDrawInterface.cpp module.  I had to
> rewrite that SDLinterface.c.  Fortunately to make things easier 1.
> directx appears to be more complicated than SDL and 2. I made a
> decision to only support 32 bit pixel formats as most modern PCs will
> have 32 bit graphics cards.
> 

Other Color Depths can be supported later...


> Then I slipped in the calls to SDLinterface.c into vcc.c and coco.c
> next to where I found the calls for DirectDrawInterface.cpp.
>

Nice Work...

> When I have it all going I will remove the calls to
> DirectDrawInterface.cpp leaving just SDL.  I suspect some issues will
> pop up then.
> 

Hopefully, Minimal....


> Walter
> 


Keep Up the Good Work....

MarkO