Frag: A Quake3 engine in Haskell

https://wiki.haskell.org/Frag

by moomin • 11 years ago

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mlitchard• 11 years ago

I love frag. Have you seen Nikki and The Robots? https://github.com/nikki-and-the-robots/nikki

willvarfar• 11 years ago

Screenshots etc?

egeozcan• 11 years ago

http://www.indiedb.com/games/nikki-and-the-robots/images

oxryly12• 11 years ago

Frag is a decade old. Does it still run?

codygman4• 11 years ago

I'm guessing it still runs on GHC 6.8, maybe GHC 7.6.3? It uses HOpenGL-2.0 and the current version is OpenGL-2.12.0.1 (with a name change apparently).

I'll try to compile it.

codygman4• 11 years ago

Whoa... I'm surprised this is building (using ghc 7.8.3). I just did:

    darcs get http://code.haskell.org/frag
    cabal sandbox init
    cabal install

It's still building right now. I'm expecting some failures soon, but then again I wasn't expecting to get this far.

update: Their cabal file doesn't have any bounds... easiest method would probably be to add bounds and use an older ghc. It depends on Data.HashTable from base 4.2. However I'm wondering if this is the only thing and if I can just use the hashtables package on hackage.

salamynder• 11 years ago

if there are problems compiling, it worked for me with this unrust-patch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-hask...

codygman4• 11 years ago

LOL, and I spent all that time getting it to compile. Do you know if this compiles with GHC 7.8?

codygman4• 11 years ago

I've gotten it compiling! Though I'm not as excited after just now noticing salamynder's comment:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-hask...

I basically have the same modifications, though I use a StoreableArray instead of an IOArray so theirs is probably faster.

I'm very satisifed I was able to fix all of these things so easily thanks to following the types and using ghci.

thinkpad20• 11 years ago

"Darcs is the standard revision control system of the Haskell community."

Hmm, was that the case in 2005?

ansible• 11 years ago

IIRC, yes. Back then git was one of many of a new crop of DVCSs, and didn't have nearly the developer mindshare it has now.

creichert• 11 years ago

Yes, Darcs predates Git by a few years and was used by GHC, XMonad, Happstack, and several other well-known Haskell projects.

dons• 11 years ago

git was first released in April 2005. We (Haskell community) were using dvcs through darcs for about 2 years prior to that. dvcs made a lot of sense to the Haskell open source world back then, as we didn't have servers, so central repos (like CVS or SVN) were out of the question. It had to be p2p to get off the ground.

kungfooman• 11 years ago

How slow is it, since it's using Haskell?

Frag: A Quake3 engine in Haskell

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