[Freeciv-Dev] Zaurus port

[Rob Fisher <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've joined this mailing list because I have started porting Freeciv to the 
Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA.  This PDA is a rather nice Linux box that fits in 
your pocket.  I don't actually own the PDA yet but I have ordered one, and I 
have the development environment on my PC so I've started work.

The server should require no porting at all as it's text mode and should 
cross compile nicely.

In the client the gui is rather beautifully seperated from everything else, 
so the task seems to consist of filling in the stub functions, and 
implementing the dialogue boxes and the display using the QT library.  I 
already have the connect dialogue box working, including the meta-server 
table updating, and am slowly - I have a real job, too ;-) - adding features.

So I thought I would introduce myself!

I also have a few questions:

1) Is anyone else working on the same project?  I'd hate to finish the job 
only to find it has already been done!

2) Is the structure of the client likely to change in a big way very soon?  I 
am currently working with version 1.12.0

3) Are there any non-isometric tile sets?  The map drawing code in the 
existing clients seems to cater for isometric and non-isometric.  A top down 
view with small tiles may be more suitable for playing on a small PDA screen.

Any comments welcome!

Rob.
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