I wanna program simple 2d games in linux. So I wanna be doing some type of X-windows programming, is there any equivalent to Direct-X in linux? Or does OpenGL support 2d graphics? I want to make a simple game similiar to asteroids, so what do you recommend I look into? I don''t need any multi-user stuff in the game (so no playing it over a LAN or the internet is necessary), I just need a simple library of some sort that supports things like plotting pixels and blitting bitmaps or something, sound and keyboard support is also great. I would like to program this in C or C++, and I do have a basic knowledge of Linux. Thanks for the help.

I don''t know much about linux programming, but I know you can do 2d with opengl, wiht a little work.

JoeMont001@aol.com www.polarisoft.n3.net

OpenGL can handle 2D graphics quite well, just ortho'' the
current model view.

You''ll need to know a bit about glx and X to get OpenGL
to work with Xlib.

If you don''t want to do that you can avoid X and glx all
togeather by using glut (but this may be too slow for games
in some cases).

*ahem* Allegro *cough*

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Martee
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ClanLib is a good wrapper that handles 2d pretty well. www.clanlib.org

DirectX for Linux? I have to say it: SDL. www.libsdl.org. It''s most certainly not the only one around. Clanlib and Allegro are both decent, but as i haven''t used either really, i can''t really say much more about them. I will say that SDL is very complete, and there is plenty of documentation for it. Best of all, it uses native acceleration properties of the OS, and it supports OpenGL. I reccomend it highly.

-benc