One such needy package was the burgerspace game. I found some minor makefile quirks that needed fixing to get it and it's companion game library libflatzebra to build. So I patched them up and hoped for the best. Nope. Apparently nobody ever noticed it required a 672x520 SDL window. How did that ever work on the nanonote? I believe that's where the original openwrt package came from. Anyhow, I verified it worked just fine at 640x480, so all we needed to do was cut everything in half for the 320x240 screen on the zipit. So that's what I did. I chopped out half the raster lines, and half of the pixels in the lines that were left. It worked, but you couldn't read the instructions or the score. That's no fun.
Fortunately I remembered some old raster tricks from days gone by and did a quick search for fast color pixel averaging. Yeah, that's the trick I had in mind. I overloaded the SDLflip function in libflatzebra, pasted in the code, and voila! It works.
I love the sound it makes when chef gets bonked by the sausage.
You can read the score without too much trouble, and if you squint real hard you can almost make out the rest of the text. Now I just need to find some more 640x480 SDL games to convert, quickly before I forget...
The packages in mozzwald's openwrt-zipit repository are up to date, so you can install it on an openwrt zipit with opkg. I also made an IZ2S build.
burgerspace-iz2s.zip
* By the way, the title of this post is indeed a nod to perhaps one of the greatest record album covers, ever. But I'm sure you knew that already.
Listening to "The Problem" or the last two minutes or so of "The Party" always brings back a flood of memories from weekends at engineering school. Heh. So long, Rick.
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