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List:       kde-games-devel
Subject:    Re: Starting today, all 40 KDE Gear game apps (& 2 libs) are Qt6/KF6-only in master
From:       "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <kossebau () kde ! org>
Date:       2023-10-04 15:49:48
Message-ID: 4178155.1IzOArtZ34 () klux
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Hi Ian,

Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2023, 02:58:01 CEST schrieb Ian Wadham:
> The gameplay and visuals of these games are (relatively) bug-free, so mostly
> they need to be adapted to changes in the underlying libraries. It is great
> that you are doing that work and saving the KDE Games from withering on the
> vine.

Aren't games one of the nicest kind of software to maintain:
when you test your work, you do it by playing :)
(unless the AI is too smart and shows one's limits... ;) )

Has been a number of good souls who have been keeping the games' code alive, 
including sysadmin, release workers, translators, packagers, and then some 
developers having fun porting API and brushing up code (/mirror look) :)

And those laying the foundation, by having written something maintainable and 
worth the investment of others :)
IMHO a nice example where Open Source & its licenses actually work out.

> I still enjoy playing them, though only on an old Apple machine, using the
> last Macports Qt4 versions.

Yes, even more with the dedicated graphics they have their own charm, and 
surely still fill some niche.

With the Qt6 port alive, there is also yet another life span chance to make 
the jump into the QtQuick and thus mobile device world...

> P.S. This year is the "Diamond Jubilee" of my first computer program,
> written on a Ferranti Sirius in a language called Autocoder, which was
> somewhat closer to machine language than assembly language.

Thanks for making me feel young a tad here, once in a while :P
And congrats to your jubilee. That must have been an amazing thing to witness 
develop from those systems to today's insane computing powers everywhere, and 
that still on-going... Myself only started later last century (when everyone 
at school had a C64 or Amiga, but me!), but even from that offset also just 
amazed how things developed since...

> I am proud that my contributions to KDE Games are now the longest-lived of
> any programs I have ever written since then, and that is thanks to you
> guys!!!

Thanks to you sharing your work here, and allowing us to share it with others 
also in the future :) Nice to see you can still derive "payback" from that :)

Cheers
Friedrich


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