Wesnoth for other platforms

[Deathlance]

What about made wesnoth for other plattforms like ds?
(Just an crazy idea)

[Weeksy]

Wesnoth for iphone is a possibility that has been considered. It would most likely take some heavy recoding to get wesnoth to work on standard consoles.

[cool evil]

It will be crappy if it ever made it to iPhone, i have not seen a single free-game available on commercial gaming consoles that at least interested me a bit. Speaking of free, i do not know any legal free games on the playstation system, any game that is not bought for a fee or played on a disc is considered homebrew(hacked).

Wesnoth hasn't got a chance in a million, in order to be legal, it needs to be on a disc, to be on a disc it needs to be commercial, which would violate the ultimate rule of open-sourceware.

The only games that i've seen besides the ones that the commercial studios make, is those of really small size and bad quality, like a pac-man game for the psp, only a few hundred kbs.

[Dave]

Wesnoth hasn't got a chance in a million, in order to be legal, it needs to be on a disc, to be on a disc it needs to be commercial, which would violate the ultimate rule of open-sourceware.

Huh?

There is plenty of open source software that is both commercial and available on a disc.

David

[Dveman115]

Actually, thats completely wrong. The Iphone SDK is out (or will be soon), so you can develop for the I phone all you want. Same with the Ipod, and I think there may be an SDK for the PSP (not sure though). So yeah...

[Aethaeryn]

Actually, thats completely wrong. The Iphone SDK is out (or will be soon), so you can develop for the I phone all you want. Same with the Ipod, and I think there may be an SDK for the PSP (not sure though). So yeah...

The SDK has been out for a few weeks now I think, so Wesnoth can be made to run under the iPhone using the tinygui. It probably wouldn't be that bad, either, though an updater/patcher that could be accessed within the GUI would probably be a good thing to be added before making it run under the iPhone, especially if you were made to pay a small amount to get the version on the iPhone store. Wesnoth updates a lot!

[cool evil]

So, dave, if i get this right, you can make wesnoth for the playstation platform?

If so, sign me up on the wish list, because theres nothing like a good old free strategy game on a commercial console.

[Dveman115]

No, your not right. You said that open-source software couldn't be on a disk. Dave never said that the disc would be a playstation game. However, if you could get a hold on a dev kit for playstation, then yes, we could distribute wesnoth for PS (However, it would take a lot of work to re-write the code and such to get it to work with the platform).

All dave said is that OS software could be on a disk (read the GPL).

[Jetrel]

No, your not right. You said that open-source software couldn't be on a disk. Dave never said that the disc would be a playstation game. However, if you could get a hold on a dev kit for playstation, then yes, we could distribute wesnoth for PS (However, it would take a lot of work to re-write the code and such to get it to work with the platform).

All dave said is that OS software could be on a disk (read the GPL).

And sold. For Cash.

OSS means free as in speech, but doesn't mandate free as in beer. Would people be willing to pay $5-10 for the convenience of running the game on a console, and to support our dev team? Quite possibly.

[daodizzyF]

How i can compile BFW on PSP????

[beetlenaut]

How i can compile BFW on PSP????

It's a rather involved process. First, you get the developers the software development kit. That currently sells for $10,250 from Sony. Next, you convince some of them to learn it and start recoding the game for that platform.

We're several steps away from compiling at this point.