After being offline for about a day or so, this weblog is now back on-line. I’m currently reconfiguring stuff to get its functionality back to 100%. Since the webserver has moved and I forgot to backup any of the old database entries, I don’t think there’s a chance we’ll get them back.

In that case I’m happy to welcome you to the new weblog ;-)

I just discovered a bug while trying to get Orbit-Hopper to run on another notebook. If you are familiar with C++ compiling (or even if you aren't but know how to install make, g++, and the sdl development libraries), the following small change in Game.cpp (located in /source) will fix a crash during game start:

Move the line "glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT,0);" up a few lines, right after the "applyBloom();" call and before the closing "}"-bracket.

Your Game.cpp file should look somewhat like this:

...

        applyBloom();
        glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT,0);   
    }

   
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);         
    glLoadIdentity();
    glColor3f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f);

 ...

Save and recompile to enjoy Orbit-Hopper on machines without shader support.

I will upload a fixed version of the binaries in a couple of days once I get home.