OS/2 - ArcaOS - Native Games

[Jochen Schäfer]

Hi

I have a noob question about SDL development. For games that had been developed with SDL 1x, is it possible to recompile those with SDL 2.x? or all the game code (like functions calls, etc) will need to be changed to use the SDL 2.x instead?

Regards

Their migration guide is here: https://wiki.libsdl.org/MigrationGuide.
The compability layer is here: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat

[TZhivkov]

Hello,
I need any free playable pinball native for OS/2

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello TZhivkov, welcome the forum

Hello,
I need any free playable pinball native for OS/2

Sadly "Psyberball Pinball" never evolved from 1996.

Maybe we should try to find an open source SDL pinball game and see if it can be ported.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Dave, sorry to abuse of your time.

Do you think this will compile on OS/2? It uses C++11 and SDL2.
- https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

It requires this freeware from Microsoft Pinball: https://www.groovypost.com/wp-content/uploads/static/downloads/3d_pinball_for_windows_space_cadet.exe

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

Hi Martin, tried building it, make seems to get into a loop early on, one core at 100% and after a while the system locks up. Not sure how to proceed.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Martin, tried building it, make seems to get into a loop early on, one core at 100% and after a while the system locks up. Not sure how to proceed.

Thanks for giving it a try.

[Pete]

Hi TZhivkov

I doubt if there are any... I have never found a working OS/2 based pinball game.

I think this is simply because the existing DOS games can be played without problems using the OS/2 built in DOS support - or DOSBox can be installed.

I use DOSBox to play Epic Pinball and Pyscho Pinball - probably 2 of the best pinball games around - simply because current audio devices tend to need the uniaud driver which does not have sound support for DOS sessions.


Regards

Pete

[Remy]

Hi TZhivkov

I doubt if there are any... I have never found a working OS/2 based pinball game.

I think this is simply because the existing DOS games can be played without problems using the OS/2 built in DOS support - or DOSBox can be installed.

I use DOSBox to play Epic Pinball and Pyscho Pinball - probably 2 of the best pinball games around - simply because current audio devices tend to need the uniaud driver which does not have sound support for DOS sessions.


Regards

Pete

Any older flash pinball game ?

[Pete]

hi Remy

You will find some flash pinball games using this google search 
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0619bf7b847f9363&q=pinball+game+adobe+flash&oq=pinball+game+adobe+flash&aqs=heirloom-srp..

No idea if any of them work as I do not have flash or odin installed.


Regards

Pete

[Remy]

hi Remy

You will find some flash pinball games using this google search 
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0619bf7b847f9363&q=pinball+game+adobe+flash&oq=pinball+game+adobe+flash&aqs=heirloom-srp..

No idea if any of them work as I do not have flash or odin installed.


Regards

Pete

Not swf but exe flash are needed which is more difficult to find or convert

[Pete]

Hi Remy

I selected the first result in the google search which was https://archive.org/details/pinball_flash_202310

Looking at the file list using the Show All option on the above page I see that it contains pinball.swf

This package also contains an swf file https://archive.org/details/critter-pinball_flash

I'll let you rummage through the other google results  :-)


Regards

Pete

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi.

I selected the first result in the google search which was https://archive.org/details/pinball_flash_202310

Give it a try of CrazyBall works for you:
- https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3926.0;attach=13333

High School Musical 3 Pinball:
- https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3926.0;attach=13334

And Free World game Pinball:
- https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3926.0;attach=13335

Here it works with Odin.

Regards