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What's working:
- Game listing
- Multiple machine configurations
- Multiple screenshots for the corresponding game

What's not:
- Settings menu

Known issues:
- Small bug when scrolling back up the games list

What's next:
- Stuff from this thread

Old screenshots

Download, untar, and install as usual. This of course, is for Linux only. Make sure you have libsdl, sdl-image, sdl-gfx, and sdl-ttf installed. Place the example config file in your home directory and modify it to your needs.

This doesn't have very much (almost none) error-handling code, so if it crashes, don't expect it to quit very nicely. We're working on it. I should also mention that a joystick is required for this release, but keyboard support will be coming up.

List any bugs you find here, and help us get rid of them.

Here's a new screenshot:

Dude that rocks. I'm going to try it out tomorrow when I get time.

Just for some feedback: I'm using Debian testing and I couldn't get it to compile. To get past configure, I had to install the following debian packages:

libsdl-image1.2
libsdl-image1.2-dev
libsdl-ttf1.2
libsdl-ttf1.2-dev
libsdl-gfx1.2
libsdl-gfx1.2-dev

After that, during make, I got stuck with compile errors. It looks like it can't find SDL.h, but I have verified that it's here: /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h

I looked at your source and found this: This makes me think you are looking in the current directory for these files, instead of in the system library. I tried changing them to <SDL.h> and then <SDL> but no go, same error. Maybe you can tell what is going on.

gamefu.cpp:28:17: SDL.h: No such file or directory
gamefu.cpp:29:21: SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from gamefu.cpp:30:
games.h:24: error: syntax error before `*' token
games.h:25: error: `SDL_Surface' was not declared in this scope
games.h:25: error: `background' was not declared in this scope
games.h:25: error: `SDL_Surface' was not declared in this scope
games.h:25: error: `screen' was not declared in this scope
games.h:25: error: variable or field `FadeGameListToMenu' declared void
games.h:25: error: initializer list being treated as compound expression
In file included from gamefu.cpp:31:
mainmenu.h:23: error: `SDL_Surface' was not declared in this scope
mainmenu.h:23: error: `screen' was not declared in this scope
mainmenu.h:23: error: variable or field `DrawMainMenu' declared void
mainmenu.h:24: error: type specifier omitted for parameter `SDL_Surface'
mainmenu.h:24: error: parse error before `*' token
mainmenu.h:25: error: type specifier omitted for parameter `SDL_Joystick'
mainmenu.h:25: error: parse error before `*' token
In file included from gamefu.cpp:33:
systemselect.h:22: error: type specifier omitted for parameter `SDL_Joystick'
systemselect.h:22: error: parse error before `*' token
In file included from gamefu.cpp:34:
pratique.h:25:17: SDL.h: No such file or directory
In file included from gamefu.cpp:34:
pratique.h:29: error: parse error before `,' token
pratique.h:32: error: syntax error before `*' token
gamefu.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
gamefu.cpp:43: error: `SDL_Surface' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:43: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
each function it appears in.)
gamefu.cpp:43: error: `screen' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:46: error: `SDL_Joystick' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:46: error: `js' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:53: error: `TTF_Init' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:56: error: `SDL_Quit' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:57: error: `TTF_Quit' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:60: error: `SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:60: error: `SDL_InitSubSystem' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:61: error: `SDL_JoystickOpen' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:63: error: `SDL_GetError' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:68: error: `InitSDLSystem' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:72: error: `SDL_JoystickClose' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:78: error: `SDL_DISABLE' undeclared (first use this function)
gamefu.cpp:78: error: `SDL_ShowCursor' undeclared (first use this function)
make[1]: *** [gamefu.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/gamefu/gamefu-0.1/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

You need a Portage ebuild.

Bastage!

This is gonna make me install linux!

I'm asumming this is a Linux only release correct?

Did you install libsdl-dev ?

To check for, run "sdl-config --cflags --libs".

Looks like it's not finding the SDL headers. Try adding /usr/lib/include/SDL (I think that's it) to your path. Or you could go through the source files and change the SDL header references to point to the SDL folder, ie. "SDL_ttf.h" becomes "SDL/SDL_ttf.h." I've changed it after reading your post, it'll keep the compilation a little more trouble free on systems that don't have the SDL libs in their path.

Definitely. As soon as we've got something a little more customizable, I'll make an ebuild.



With cygwin though, we might be able to make a Windows binary, but I personally wouldn't provide any support for it.

Alright, I did that across all the files and it compiled fine. I ran it and it complained about no joystick. I guess I better go dig mine up

:p

Make it for Windows and I'll give you a cookie. Seriously. I'll mail it to you.

I will take a bigger thing than a cookie to make us port Gamefu on Windows

Seriously, Gamefu is thinked with a Linux/UNIX system in mind, so we use standard UNIX-only libraries for process launching and directory listing.

But just for fun, I'll try to port it to Windows in these following days.

And maybe try to make a ebuild