Re: Games? A Newbie question

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Enrico A." <muaddib@digibank.it> wrote in message
news:98104da8.0112270351.77f9f070@posting.google.com...
> Hi, I'm Enrico,21 from Milan, Italy.
> I have a simple question :
> what do u think about developing a videogame using Ada ?

If memory serves someone posted here a while back about doing a game in Ada.
If your interested try
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=game&hl=en&group=comp.lang.ada&scoring=d,
it should provide all discussions of games in Ada.

> what compiler do u suggest?

Depends,

GNAT is free (rather, there is a public version which is free and a
commercial version which isn't) and works on a lot of platforms (Windows,
Linux, various Unices, ...).  There are more compilers at
http://www.adapower.com under "links".

If your using GNAT you have the following possible options for drawing stuff
with (assuming of course it is a graphical game, and not a text [console]
based game) ,

GWindows (Windows only, *at present*),
OpenGL (Windows version comes with bindings, there used to be a binding
independant of windows (and GNAT) but I don't know if that's still
available),
DirectX with GNATCOM and GWindows (Windows only),
GtkAda (Various platforms, but GNAT only),
... (some more I can't remember)

[info on most of these things can be found at adapower]


For other compilers someone else will have to help.


Chris