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Chase

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Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« on: June 27, 2016, 07:15:15 pm »
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2016, 02:25:19 am »
I don't know. I think SDL is "2D" and legacy is "STANDARD". 2D is more compatible and supports TrueType Fonts, but STANDARD is faster and supports NEAREST scaling. Dwarf Fortress is set to "2D" by default, but if you delete that setting it defaults back to "STANDARD".
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2016, 03:21:41 am »
Quote from: jecowa on June 28, 2016, 02:25:19 am
I don't know. I think SDL is "2D" and legacy is "STANDARD". 2D is more compatible and supports TrueType Fonts, but STANDARD is faster and supports NEAREST scaling. Dwarf Fortress is set to "2D" by default, but if you delete that setting it defaults back to "STANDARD".

No, Legacy and SDL are two different downloads that can be seen on the download page at bay 12 games. Print mode is unrelated.

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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2016, 03:41:27 am »
"Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported or manufactured operating system or other computer technology." -Wikipedia

I'm going to assume "No", unless you're using an OS that can't handle SDL.
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2016, 03:45:10 am »
I just remembered. Legacy's curses, SDL is SDL. SDL has a couple print modes, 2D doesn't use graphics acceleration, the rest do (with OpenGL) AFAIK.
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2016, 04:05:20 am »
Some animations (like thrown weapons in adv. mode) will render in legacy but not SDL afaik
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2016, 02:22:29 pm »
Well, I had a 550 year old world generating, and it was taking a while and i ended up falling asleep and it didn't crash when I woke up to complete world gen (which is has on SDL) so I'm just going to assume for now that Legacy is better.
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2016, 03:49:56 pm »
Quote from: Putnam on June 28, 2016, 03:21:41 am

No, Legacy and SDL are two different downloads that can be seen on the download page at bay 12 games. Print mode is unrelated.



"2D" uses SDL, but "STANDARD" doesn't. I would guess that a non-SDL version of Dwarf Fortress would just be one that doesn't include the SDL libraries, so it's only option would be to use the "STANDARD" print mode. Since using SDL is required for TrueType Fonts, I would guess the legacy version doesn't support those.
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2016, 04:05:20 pm »
Quote from: jecowa on June 28, 2016, 03:49:56 pm
"2D" uses SDL, but "STANDARD" doesn't. I would guess that a non-SDL version of Dwarf Fortress would just be one that doesn't include the SDL libraries, so it's only option would be to use the "STANDARD" print mode. Since using SDL is required for TrueType Fonts, I would guess the legacy version doesn't support those.

No. They all use SDL - for window management, input events, etc. But for drawing, 2D uses SDL and STANDARD uses OpenGL directly.
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Re: Is Legecy More Stable Than SDL?
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2016, 05:49:43 pm »
Quote from: jecowa on June 28, 2016, 03:49:56 pm
Quote from: Putnam on June 28, 2016, 03:21:41 am

No, Legacy and SDL are two different downloads that can be seen on the download page at bay 12 games. Print mode is unrelated.



"2D" uses SDL, but "STANDARD" doesn't.

Except that's completely false. No truth to it whatsoever.
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