Pygame "works decent" on PS3 YDL; easy-to-install on Fedora |
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This one comes from the Blog of Buffis. He has a PS3 running Yellow Dog Linux and Pygame. Py-huh? Wikipedia: Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language. In short: game writing stuff. Buffis wanna see if Pygame will compile and work on YDL-PS3.Answer: it worked. "Compiling all of the dependencies and the pygame made it possible for me to run stuff at decent speed. Its not exactly fast, but absolutely fast enough to develop graphical user interfaces and small games." He also notes that Pygame is limited to using one SPE, "but it works" (Picture to the right comes from Buffis.com). As for instructions...
If people want me to I can write a guide for compiling pygame for PS3, but itÂ’s pretty much the same as compiling it for any other platformÂ… Simply install all dependencies for SDL, then SDL and SDL_mixer, SDL_image and so on and top it all of with pygame.
On a subsequent blog post Buffis made another happy discovery. Acting on a tip from a SomethingAwful member, he found that Pygame is also very easy to install on Fedora Core 5 - easier than YDL, even. "Installing pygame there is apparently as simple as writing “yum install pygame” as root."
Fedora or YDL... that's still two for two for PS3 Linux.
Via Buffis.com
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Well, of course pyGame worth it, but considering the limitations, making games could, yes, be rather slow. While it does uses SDL though, using the SDL approach for the C/C++ devs could be a better option, but I don't know, yet again, how reliable it might be.
I will try to check into this tonight and see what comes out of it. I am trying to make myself some little applications so, we'll see what comes out of it. On the other hands, kudos for this discoveries as it might speed a bit more the PS3 homebrew developement on Linux.