Jim Leek

If the backlight is out, you can usually kind of make out the game if you hold it under bright light. (In my experiance) Kind of like a bad Gameboy advance.

Carl, that brings up a question I have. How does one test Comlynx code? Do you just use 4 Lynxes and 4 eprom carts? Handy seems to support some comlynxing over TCP/IP but it doesn't work right. (I guess) What do you do?

I noticed that Handy seems to have some built in functionality for com-lynxing over TCP/IP. Does this work with any games? Is anyone planning to fix the code so it can work with commecial games, and correctly emulate the comlynx port?

Inability to program is not a permenent state. Programming is a skill, and can be learned. I programmed a snake/tron game in a mix of x86 assembler and Pascal back when I first learned to program. All you need to do is take a C class at your local community college (or whatever) to get up to speed on basic programming concepts, and then start going at the Lynx. Not easy, but there's a shortage of programmers in the world. we could use another.

Good idea, go for it. Aside from the AI and the comlynx code, Tron is about the simplest game to write in the world.You don't even have to clear the screen buffer between frames if you don't want to.

Thanks for the info. I just downloaded a nightly snapshot and compiled. Unfortunatly my wife is eyeing me to goto bed, so no more playing with it tonight. One question though, where can I get all the newest Lynx libraries? Or are Bastian42''s as new as they get? ALso, thanks for sending me the old tools Kerri. If there's a need, I would be willing to set up a website to host them.

Do you know where I can download the win binaries? Bastian42's links are down.

Unfortunatly, there are no really good Lynx programming tutorials (at least that I know of) The fact is, even on a simple system, C programming and assemby are hard. The Lynx's lack of good support will make this harder for you. This isn't to say it can't be done, but the Lynx is not really a starter programmer system. Of course, if I'm wrong, I would LOVE to hear some one tell me so. Also, if you're looking to contribute to Lynx games, I bet there are some people looking for someone to do art or write music for their games.

Man, I feel like I'm talking to myself. Anyway, I've gotten a little farther. I found out: Yes, newcc65 does NOT compile under gcc 3.3.3, you need gcc 2.95. After that, you may need to: add #include to ra65/parse.h int the cc65/makefile change ~/bin -> ../bin I still haven't gotten it to compile the libraries, but I did get cc65 and ra65 to compile, which is progress! But now I have to go back to work

Hey, what version of gcc are you using? I'm using gcc 3.3.3-7. I've got a sneaky suspicion that maybe the library changes recently may have messed this stuff up. I can get a few things to compile by adding in "#include " but I haven't figured out what's up with this problem: gcc -s -O3 -Wall -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -o xopt xopt.cc /tmp/ccSvVfEY.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Actually, on second thought, it looks like you have some tools I haven't been able to find at all. If you could email those to me, I'd be grateful. My address: [email protected]

Dang, it was easy for you huh? I've been downloading it off of Basitian42's old page. Maybe the secret is in compiling ra65 first and seperately doing make; make install in each directory? In just running make install I've just been getting piles of "warning: function strlen implicitly defined in xxx.c", and then the linker dies on an undefined reference. I've tried a few things, but I'll try your advice out when I get home from work today. Thanks a lot. If I have any trouble I'll ask for your sources, just incase I'm getting something wrong. Just out of curiousity, I'm rather new around here, are you working some Lynx development?

Has anyone tried programming for the Lynx on Linux? I've been thinking about starting to do some Lynx programming, but I don't run windows anymore, just Linux. So far, I haven't had much luck getting the cc65 compiler to build under Linux. Any ideas?