Hi Naz,<br><br>Thanks. Another thing that I want to test is if we could use shared objects or does the user have to go online to save a game. What I'm currently doing is an RPG game made up of interconnected mini-games so I need to record the player's progress. Also, I want to see how my animations run on the actual unit and make adjustments. So far, I'm assuming 12 fps will do well without the alpha stuff, hehe.<br><br>Anyway, see you guys on October 17 :)<br><br>Regards,<br>Melch<br><br><b><i>Carlos Nazareno <object404@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi all.<br><br>Update.<br><br>I lent Leonardo (XO-1 unit) to the Department of Information Systems<br>and Computer Science at the Ateneo de Manila University recently. It's<br>with John Paul Vergara, the department chair, and they'll have a<br>gander at for maybe 2 weeks. DISCS is also doing a Flash
Gamedev<br>program so it might be of interest to lend one of the units with them<br>to do Flash gamedev testing.<br><br>So right now, Donatello is with me and Michaelangelo is with Jerome.<br><br>Jerome, can we meet up sometime next week or maybe weekend next week?<br>I'd like to lend Michaelangelo to Melch so he can do some Flash<br>hands-on testing.<br><br>We now have this dillema with Flash gamedev on the XO:<br><br>There are now technically 2 target platforms there:<br><br>1) Adobe's Flash 10 plugin which supports AS3 and the faster AVM2. A<br>benchmark program I ran showed that using AS3 & the AVM2 performed at<br>twice the framerate as AS1.<br><br>2) The Free Open Source Gnash 0.8.3 plugin which has most of Flash 7 &<br>8's features running and is preinstalled on the XO (make that 3<br>platforms if we're also going to target Gnash without sound -- because<br>of MP3 patent restrictions, the version of Gnash that ships with the<br>XO does not have sound
enabled).<br><br>So there.<br><br>Those who don't have an XO and want to do some testing, meanwhile you<br>can try out the OLPC XO-1 livecd Sept.19 build at<br>ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080919.iso and<br>burn it to a CD and boot your PC with it, or run it in a virtual<br>machine such as Sun's free http://www.virtualbox.org/.<br><br>Although that's no substitute for testing Flash apps due to CPU &<br>Memory constraints, it should give you a feel for the environment.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>-Naz<br><br>-- <br>Carlos Nazareno<br>http://www.object404.com<br><br>interactive media specialist<br>zen graffiti studios<br>naz@zengraffiti.com<br>_______________________________________________<br>OLPC-Philippines mailing list<br>OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org<br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines<br></blockquote><br><p>