Subject: Re: SimCity like Game (console & X11)
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Tony Houghton <tonyh@tcp.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/05/1998 19:11:27
In message <199801050747.HAA16764@poseidon.tcp.net.uk>
          Peter Berg <berg@mailserv.tu-freiberg.de> wrote:

> > > > BTW when I tried your Thrust game, I got a "can not fork" error.
> > >
> Don't know. I never got feedback for the lib, so I can only say that it works
> on my v1.2 system.
> When is the error message reported ? Do you get the textinfo when you
> start the game (libmultimedia v0.6. ....) ?

I can't remember the exact error, but I'm pretty sure it was something
about "cannot fork" and it came from /usr/local/bin/thrust. There was no
textinfo IIRC, but there was a pause before the error came up.

> I also don't know, whether the console device in v1.3 kernels is compatible
> to the one in the v1.2 kernels.

Could be the problem.

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