SQRXZ Port for our Lynx ?

[lynxianer]

Since years i play a very cool but not easy game with the unspokable name "Sqrxz". It is a Jump and Run with difficult puzzling and it makes so much fun. 4 parts are available.

Sqrxz is available for many many different platforms. Many of the ports are Homebrew. More infos are available here at Retroguru http://www.sqrxz.de

 

A Lynx port is missing ! What about a port for our lovely handheld ? Unfortunatley I am not a coder.

[jum]

Hi lynxianer. Sqrxz would be nice on the Lynx, but very difficult to port for many reasons:

 

- Sqrxz uses SDL for its many ports. There is no SDL for Lynx. (ie: Sqyrxz assumes a more powerful system)

- Sqrxz is designed for 320x240 resolution. Lynx is 160 x 102.

- Sqxrz uses MOD tracker music. Lynx may have some kind of MOD tracker, but not enough to support Sqrxz music / effects properly.

 

Better to create a game that is designed specifically for the Lynx.

[lynxianer]

Thanks for your analysis. Sounds absolutely technically plausible. I thought if already exist as many ports it might be possible . Too bad that it is not feasible.

[Nop90]

Found this old post... after 4 years this wish seems not so impossible. But it remains not simple at all.

[KevinMos3]

It would be great to see it ported to the Lynx, but only if it wouldn't set back other projects of yours too much.  The ones you have in the pipeline are pretty exciting.

[spspspsp]

Back in the late 90s I played the heck out of a port of SQRXZ written for the Ti-86 graphing calculator. It is still available from ticalc.org. Black and white, and no sound, but I thought it was great.

 

With some compromises, the Lynx could host a serviceable port, in my opinion.

[Nop90]

2 hours ago, spspspsp said:

Back in the late 90s I played the heck out of a port of SQRXZ written for the Ti-86 graphing calculator.

The TI-86 version is not from Retroguru, it's a clone of the same PC game that inspired the Retroguru port.

 

Porting the Retroguru version to Lynx will require to maintan it as close as possible to the original: compromises must be reduced at minimal and it is not so trivial.