Wow. That is quite impressive. I really wish I were able to make use of that, just because. Hopefully more people will be maing 3D games not based on the fat engine.

-W-

Too slow at the moment, but I'ld like to use it if it gets any faster, and as the developer states in the readme, he plans on improving the speed.

It's interesting that ticalc.org suddenly has trademark concerns, after all the programs in the archives illegally calling themselves "Tetris" or "Super Mario"...

I think it was the author's decision to change the name, not ticalc's.

No, it was ticalc's decision.

OK :)

Trademark concerns haven't concerned me yet. I see Taito hasn't even gone after the makers of a commercial shareware game titled "Bubble Bobble Nostalgie". I doubt they'd chase after a calculator version.

Cell phone version maybe.

See above link. It seems that the opengl trademark is taken fairly seriously

I wonder how much they paid their lawyers to think up all the stuff in the copyrite page...also they seem to be more strict on their logo than the actual program

The OpenGL trademark, along with other trademarks, has to be taken seriously. Unlike patents and copyrights, you must defend your trademark or risk losing it. The owner of a trademark will lose his or her trademark if it becomes generic.

Like aspirin.

and kleenex, xerox and a host of others...

Very nice! If anyone is interested in learning OpenGL for the PC, I recommend Python with PyOpenGL (see URL for this post), possibly along with Pygame.

I'd do it, but I lack the math and PyGame knowledge. Right now I'm working on a project like TiReport (don't expect anything major until the summer!).

> I don't plan on releasing the sourcecode so don't ask me for it.

What's this all about? I mean, the guy can do whatever he wants, but isn't it sort of an unspoken rule that calculator software is open source? I mean, no one's making money here, so what's the problem? He seems to be having problems moving from floating point to fixed point -- this sounds like something an open source team would be able to handle easily.

If you have a disassembler, all games are open source.

Also, this is his project - maybe he doesn't want people to do the work for him? Maybe he's enjoying the fun of solving these problems himself?

Maybe he is planning on enterning the code in a competiton or something, and needs to be able to proove it was all written by him.

And besides, closed source libraries really suck. You make yourself dependent on them by using them in your programs, and then a few years later TI releases a new hardware or OS version, or we release a new TIGCCLIB version with ABI changes (this has hit a few old static libraries which called _rowread using the old stack parameter ABI, whereas we changed to register parameters - note that we DO NOT guarantee binary compatibility for TIGCCLIB), the library doesn't work anymore, and you find out that the author isn't available to fix it anymore (or worse, that he has lost his source code - this happens way too often for projects released without source code, and is a good reason to release the source code: you can't lose it if it's mirrored all over the net).

Additionally there are games I would like to recompile because they use old buggy fileIO routines that forgot to resize files properly on fclose.

Oh, and you also don't benefit from my compiler improvements if you don't have the source code. (See the Web Page link above for what I'm currently working on.)