Quote:Original post by DevFred

Quote:Original post by osmanb
You don't know what you want.

Sure he does, let me summarize:

He wants to make a 3D game in a high level language without any dependencies. He wants to code everything top-down by himself, but he doesn't want to become a developer. Oh yeah and the game should look like Unreal Tournament 2001, but with bump-mapping.

thats not really an unrealistic goal, you know.... maybe its not the way its normally done, or the fastest way, but its doable...

Quote:Original post by DescentPro

Quote:Original post by DevFred

Quote:Original post by osmanb
You don't know what you want.

Sure he does, let me summarize:

He wants to make a 3D game in a high level language without any dependencies. He wants to code everything top-down by himself, but he doesn't want to become a developer. Oh yeah and the game should look like Unreal Tournament 2001, but with bump-mapping.

thats not really an unrealistic goal, you know.... maybe its not the way its normally done, or the fastest way, but its doable...

This is like drinking the Atlantic Ocean and peeing it out in the Pacific Ocean. Well, maybe not that hard (stupid spherical planet), but it's still next to impossible.

You should work smarter, not harder.

You need to refine your goal down to something a little more specific. Figure out what type of game you want to write and just give in to using a library.

If you STILL don't want to use libraries, just throw Vista out of the equation all together.

Get a hex editor (Even harder! Yay! Maybe notepad if you can stand it) and write a bootloader (www.osdev.org will show you how). Save your bootloader to a floppy. Now, order the Intel manuals (They're free! (No sarcasm here)) and start to write your game. You are now free of any libraries and/or dependencies. On the other hand, you must write every single bit, but that shouldn't be too hard.

Actually, you might get interested in OS development. Though then again, you don't want to be a developer nor do you "spend your whole day hunched over a computer" or whatever the rude phrase you used was.

Anyways, I look forward to your uB3r l337 a|\|Ti n00b game of awesomeness. Good luck!

:)

P.S. This thread is going nowhere, close it please mods?

Emulate some simple hardware with qemu and just run your application in real mode.
You could eventually use Xen with it and get native CPU performance.

ive never heard of xen. but i did come up with an interesting search on wikipedia. its called a field programable logic array, and it is said one can make a custom processor out of this (although its performance wont equal that of hardwired competitors). does anyone know about these? like how much they cost or if they and usuable for hobbyists

Quote:Original post by DescentPro
ive never heard of xen. but i did come up with an interesting search on wikipedia. its called a field programable logic array, and it is said one can make a custom processor out of this (although its performance wont equal that of hardwired competitors). does anyone know about these? like how much they cost or if they and usuable for hobbyists

FPGAs are fun and usable for EE hobbyists. They are of little or no use to game development hobbyists. You mentioned in your original post that the Hydra's "lack of memory and processor power made it impossible to use for what i wanted." Any processor you design on an FPGA will make the that processor look like a supercomputer.