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I have been programming applications at the higher level for a while now and have just got interested in systems programming. What i want to do is, i want to build an OS (a primitive one) for fun...
But i know nothing about low level programming, i dont know anything about booting and stuff. I just want to know where to start and what to learn, I just started to learn about the booting stuff and filesystems but have no idea how to program them in C(++).
Managing hardware is another issue and i have no idea how to go about programming software to manage hardware..
One final problem is windows, i know how to generate windows in C++ graphics mode by drawing stuff on the screen, but programming languages like Java use things like JFrame to make windows and they basically hire the window style and stuff from the OS, so i dont know how to lend my Window style to the other programs that are running on my computer
Please help me and lead me in the right direction..
Find the text book about Xinu. (Xinu Is Not Unix). It takes you step by step building and operating system in C.
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I'm searching for an application written in C++ with a neat codebase, to learn from and maybe even contribute to it. A lot of applications written in C++ are either very large or doing some really advanced stuff, which is just the domain of C++.
A good candidate of size and shape would be something like pacman and libalpm from Archlinux, but it is written in plain C, not C++. WebKit is just far to big and Protobuf is looking awkward. Gnote looks to be a good starting point and I'm also using GNOME, but I wasn't sure about it because it offers a GUI. Which brings me back to pacman; I'm already using it myself and it doesn't distract with stuff like a GUI.
So I decided to look for something small and sane, which offers a CLI and which I can use myself. I opened the search of github with the terms note + c++ + stars and the result is taskwarrior. A brief look on the source of task(warrior) looks promising.
Do you know a neat project which written in C++?
Thanks
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Is there any image manipulation (jpg, png or bmp I dont care) library for MS-DOS wich works under DosBox for Android with Turbo-C++?
I want to do a small old-school game and right now this is the only setup I've got to program as my laptop is screwed and Im not going to buy another anytime soom.
The thing is that the Turbo-C++'s graphic manipulation library is enough to do some kinda-decent user interfaces, but I need to use sprites (drawing circles and rectangles is not exactly what I need).
Is there any library? I know MS-DOS is kinda dead, but you gotta use what you have IMO.
And if no, what could I do to display images on screen?, I guess setting the pixels one by one loaded from a bmp could work but seems pretty inefficient and tedious to do.
Any ideas?,
Thanks.
Allegro is the best general-purpose games & graphics library I know of for DOS. It won't work with Turbo, but it will work with DJGPP, which is free (it's a build of GCC and related tools for DOS). If you use DJGPP with RHIDE, development feels a lot like Turbo.
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I'm studying physics and I know C++ at a basic level. at my study it's sometimes really useful to create a program which can graphicly represent some data or do calculations and then graphicly represent them. I read that, for example, to be able to master the basics of openGL I would need to do a 10 week long course of openGL. But that is too much time.
I'm wondering if there are any libraries available (for windows) which allow me to do some easy stuff like:
-DrawPixel(x,y,color)
-DrawCircle/Line/Shape/Polygon([list of points])/Triangle/Square (+rotation)
-DrawImage(filename,width,height,etc...)
-DrawText()
Is there any library which has this easyness? It would be really cool because if I do something (create a program) and I need to explain my team (who have never programmed) how I have done it (the program / results), this would make it much easier to explain!
I looked at SDL, HGE, OpenFrameworks (somewhat the "closest" yet still far away) and a few other popular libraries but they are all so far away.. why is there no such easy library?
Are there any available which are just not being found with the keywords i search in google?
I would suggest that you take a look at cinder. Try out the Hello Cinder tutorial. I think you will find it supports your needs by providing an abstraction layer above DirectX or OpenGL.
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I am new to C++. I am using CodeBlock for development.
As a learning exercise I want to write chess game with UI.
Can someone help me in identifying what tool and library I would need to for showing a chess board GUI
what algorithm I need to read to implement chess rules ?
any else I need to know ...
There are plenty of GUI-toolkits, GTK and Qt come to mind as two. See How do I build a GUI in C++? for more suggestions.
Or if you want to do the board "by-hand" then you might want to try SDL.
As for chess algorithms, it depends what you're looking for. A chess AI? A way to compute if someone is in check/checkmate? I think it might be more interesting to try and come up with your own first, then look around at others. Although if you just want some suggestions or reading material, then this and this looks promising.
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What are the best engines for a (small) indie game? I am interested in info about how much does it takes to familiarize self with the engine, special functions et cetera.
In addition, I would like to know what physics engine I should use for this type of game.
Even though I don't know if its the "best" for what your doing but, SDL is pretty good. You can write in C++ with it. It's 2D and good for indies. Plus, its cross platform so its not just limited to PC. Also there's Box2d which is a 2D physics engine in C++.
Just taking a stab. But, you should really clarify exactly what you want to do.
This depends a lot on what you want to do (i.e. genre of game and features). I suggest you check out the canonical http://www.gamedev.net/ which has covered this topic several times (both in articles and forums).
Try this one: http://oxygine.org/
It is modern hardware accelerated framework for 2D C++ games, could be build on top of SDL or Marmalade.