Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

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Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by QuestOfDreams » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:18 am

Since I'm working mostly on Ubuntu these days, I thought it might be a fun exercise to port the Genesis3D engine to Linux. It turned out that it was surprisingly simple to adjust the platform specific code. What caused me quite a headache, however, was the change from 32 to 64 bit. Somebody back in the good old days had the wonderful idea of storing pointers (memory addresses) inside the BSP and actor files (completely useless data)! This of course means different file sizes for 32 and 64 bit systems. In the end I succeeded in hacking my way around this issue and got Genesis3D start up on Ubuntu (using a minimum app, not RF of course). Yay! :D
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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by aicd99 » Wed Dec 14, 2016 2:07 am

Would you put the whole Reality factory soon ?
and Good Job

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by FODCOM » Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:13 pm

Thank you so much for actively keeping this Game Engine alive. I am starting to get back into it and I feel this can go multiple places if continuing with active development.

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by bernie » Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:55 pm

Great news. That would be a bonus if you could get RF running on Ubuntu 64 bit. I think that might give the forum a much needed boost. I too am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after the screw up with Windows 10 forcing updates that bricked my PC.

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by aicd99 » Tue Dec 20, 2016 6:46 am

I agree with bernie to porting the whole RF there. Will also be ported to console. I think Original xbox would be easy to port it as it runs on the same system on windows. Or even xbox 360

You think it's possible QOD ?

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by aicd99 » Sat Dec 24, 2016 1:47 pm

I now also found this xbox dev kit over at
http://openxdk.sourceforge.net/

I will bet you are going to find it useful. Is a reality factory port to Original xbox possible QOD ?

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by QuestOfDreams » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:41 pm

As I don't have any console I wouldn't be able to test any code on real hardware. No testing - no development.

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Re: Genesis3D running natively on Ubuntu 64 bit

Post by Wraps » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:58 pm

you get rfeditpro running on ubuntu, and i leave windows for good.

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