I can assume that a huge percentage of you here use windows in some form or another as your main operating system, but I'm interested as there is a project that I'm starting shortly, and I'm just wondering what people here use.

Edit: I forgot to say this in my post before, I use linux and I'm going to write a port of Quest (and possibly QDK when I have the time ) for the Linux operating system. I'll post more news about it when I've done more of it.

wouldnt it be nice if you asked alex if you could? he probably wouldnt say no, but it would always be good to ask.

Isn't my axeuk clone website nice, I better ask alex.

what axeuk clone website? oooo, you mean the phpBB forums i made, to show the example of a Xmas logo i was contributing? HAHA! sorry, but i didn't make phpBB therefore i did not "clone" the site. newb

I forgot to say this in my post before, I use linux and I'm going to write a port of Quest (and possibly QDK when I have the time ) for the Linux operating system. I'll post more news about it when I've done more of it

Wowwwwwwww ! ))))

it'd be wonderful !

I managed to make Quest running on Linux using Wine, but to achieve that one must have mswindows installed on another partition, otherwise it won't work
I personally don't think QDK should be ported to Unix/Linux, and I think Alex would prefer to keep the "commercial part" of Quest on mswindows, unless the QDK version on Linux would be commercialised.

On the other hand a parser for playing games would be very beneficial for the Quest "community". With such a parser, several ports of Quest could be made : one in console mode, one in graphical mode etc. (like ports of frotz for console, frotz for X window...)
Maybe Alex could help about such a parser ?

This way the huge interactive fiction community who swear only by *nix systems would consider Quest better. And also maybe some new libraries for Quest could be made by them...





Tell us more about your project, and if you need a beta tester, you know I'm here !

I think Alex wouldn't mind about a port of Quest - maybe QDK...

Then again I don't think it's out of his reach to do it himself - the only thing is he would have to re-write it all in C++ or something... Also learning how to use all the new stuff too - and the (personally) unfriendly API in linux...

Thanks very much for the response everyone. If you're wondering, I did get permission from alex before I posted this.

Primarily, I want to make the Quest engine (parser) for Linux and then implement it within a shell environment. If that all goes well, I might consider doing a version for X-Window/XFree86.

I did manage to get Quest running on via Wine on my main system but I got some errors, etc.

If the linux version is a success and there is enough demand, I'll probably do a Linux port of QDK.

As for beta testing, I'll release a beta version on the forums when I feel I'm ready to.

as far as I'm concerned, at the beginning only a console mode would please me much
Will it support formatting like bolt text, italic and such ? I guess also "menu" modes will be turned into a list...
And later, if you want to include graphical and sound support... well, it will be a huge work...
Maybe you could post your plan on the int-fiction list if you want to have some support...

Good luck.