AGK Tier2 meets Cerberus X

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 18:11:48

I simply could not resist

Qube · March 25, 2018, 20:58:46

lol, I like it

- How many commands have you done?

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 21:40:51

Thanks, a lot is done automatically. Everything that needs a string conversion still needs work, but I am writing a conversion program for it.

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 21:41:36

I want to convert my game to CX.

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2018, 21:50:55

lol good work.

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 21:52:03

Quote from: Steve Elliott on March 25, 2018, 21:50:55
lol good work.

what makes you laugh about it?

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2018, 21:53:29

Qube started it - ask him

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 22:01:57

Okidoki

Qube · March 25, 2018, 22:59:06

Quote from: Steve Elliott on March 25, 2018, 21:53:29
Qube started it - ask him

Charming!

- I was expressing surprise at seeing AGK commands in Cerberus

Is there going to be a downloadable for us mere mortals to play with?

Steve Elliott · March 25, 2018, 23:10:47

MikeHart · March 25, 2018, 23:22:18

Quote from: Qube on March 25, 2018, 22:59:06
Quote from: Steve Elliott on March 25, 2018, 21:53:29
Qube started it - ask him
Charming! - I was expressing surprise at seeing AGK commands in Cerberus

Is there going to be a downloadable for us mere mortals to play with?

When I am done, sure. Give me a week or two.

Naughty Alien · March 26, 2018, 01:29:43

..interesting..

Rick Nasher · March 26, 2018, 20:12:02

The more the better I'd say.

Now, dunno how far you wanna take this, but Blitz/Monkey is sort of abandon ware.
AGK isn't so is this sort of legal-ish?

MikeHart · March 26, 2018, 20:58:56

Quote from: Rick Nasher on March 26, 2018, 20:12:02
The more the better I'd say.
Now, dunno how far you wanna take this, but Blitz/Monkey is sort of abandon ware.
AGK isn't so is this sort of legal-ish?

Don't you worry. I would not distribute content of AGK as long as I have permission to do so.

Right now you only...

1# need to copy the content of some AGL Tier2 folders into the CX target.
2# modify one cpp file of the copied content with a few lines.

I will contact Richard Vanner when I have it in a state like I want it to be, to see what parts I could legally distribute with the target. But so far I would not need to distribute any of it.
Just a 1 page document to tell the user what to copy and what to modify.

Cerberus X will be just a different language you code your game in and there you call the AGK commands like you would call a CX mojo command. With the benefit of a BASICish language with classes, lists, pools and whatever the CX language provides.

I have now the whole shebang of AGK API calls converted (over 1800, including string conversion) to be used in CX and so far it runs fine.
And what a joy are the compile times of MSVC 2017 compared to MingW.

I am 99.99% confident that it will work out just fine. Of course it needs more testing and who knows which return values CX don't like. I am also not sure about the GC in CX.
But the rest, I am pretty pleased at the moment :-)

You may wonder why I waste time about this? I wanted to learn how to create a CX target. I love the API of AGK. So I was curious if I can create a CX->AGK target. And it was much
easier than I thought. Adding to that I still have this AGK game unfinished. As I am targeting windows only atm, I want to see if I can port it over to CX.

Hotshot · March 27, 2018, 00:36:08

Can you try port Raylib to over?