Juliano Schroeder

Another thing to check is if your subsystem under linker settings on the project is set to Console.

A quick google search found this http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/uk/vclanguage/thread/3efb7e3c-6f1b-4397-b515-8ccf8eb98626

It seems to be your same problem. See if your file is added to project and it is getting compiled.

Looking at your main() it seems to be quitting before the while(quit == false). Since init() is quite simple, check the files you're trying to load on load_files().

Inheritance is not bad. It can be bad if you do it wrong or too much. Inheritance is very good when you want substitutable behavior. Take a look at the C++ Faq on inheritance:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/proper-inheritance.html

On your LogSys case, I would go for a global as MajorTom suggested. Take a look at your sentence "

Is there any easier way to distribute it to pretty much everything?" well, globals are for eveything everywhere.

How is this code on the Actor object to keep track of Time objects? It feels like you could use just a pointer to a TimeBase object and create the Actor objects passing TimeImpl1 and TimeImpl2 which derive from TimeBase.

I use something like that with Renderers. All my renderer objects inherit from a RendererBase and each rendereable class has a pointer to a RendererBase object. Take a look at dependency injection.