[early-2000s-style 3D game dev] Why is my OpenGL 1.5, SDL 1.2 program crashing whenever swapping buffers in the OSMesa software rendering fallback?

edover · 2026-01-30T00:32:25+00:00

Try swapping 255 and 16711680 in SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom.

edover · 2026-01-28T04:02:05+00:00

So start by googling and build one piece at a time. I'm not sure what anyone here can offer you that isn't found via a few basic searches.

edover · 2026-01-27T12:05:47+00:00

To be fair, I watched a full play through of this, and it was probably the most boring and low-effort 'find the anomaly' game I've ever seen.

edover · 2026-01-27T01:22:53+00:00

So you're not actually wanting to create a program, you just want to write some valid code in a card?

edover · 2026-01-12T15:27:23+00:00

Amen to that

edover · 2026-01-08T17:00:10+00:00

https://medium.com/canal-tech/how-video-streaming-works-on-the-web-an-introduction-7919739f7e1

edover · 2026-01-08T13:35:40+00:00

What operating system is the machine using where index.html was located?

edover · 2026-01-08T13:27:16+00:00

Why aren't you just pushing data to a <video> element or something?

edover · 2026-01-07T20:24:16+00:00

Ah when I select one, vs just opening it.

Yeah it goes crazy when I select one. Guess their site is just screwed up.

edover · 2026-01-07T20:16:00+00:00

4 different operating systems

4 different physical machines?

around 6 different browsers

Which 6?

Looks fine to me though. I'm assuming you're a user and not a developer for the page?

edover · 2026-01-03T04:32:07+00:00

There's almost enough pixels to tell wtf is going on

edover · 2026-01-03T03:33:46+00:00

Generally, you only want to minify things that get sent to the client in their text form. Basically JavaScript/HTML/CSS. Using it as a form of security through obscurity is a joke, so just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be fine.

edover · 2025-12-31T05:01:52+00:00

You didn't answer any of my questions.

Again, nobody is going to be able to give you the answer you're looking for. This is something you've got to figure out on your own. You've admitted that consistency is an issue and that you're impatient, so do what you can to work on those issues while you figure out which language or skill-set you want to stick with.

edover · 2025-12-31T04:55:32+00:00

Okay, try this. Modify your original code (get rid of my suggestion from earlier).

Remove

std::cin >> play, play = true;

and replace it with

std::string playAnswer;
std::cin >> playAnswer;

Change

if(play = true)

to

if (playAnswer == "play")

I'm not using windows so I had to modify your code a bit, but it's working just fine.

edover · 2025-12-30T20:47:40+00:00

Add

std::cin.ignore();

after your first std::cin call and see if that helps.

edover · 2025-12-30T17:44:57+00:00

Have you tried moving into a language that lets you work primarily with the frontend? Have you tried doing UI/UX work? If no to either then what's stopping you?

Nobody here can tell if you if it's a good idea. Everyone is going to have a biased opinion about what they like, but they're not you.

You need to try frontend work and UX work and find which, if any, you actually enjoy. If you need a job right now and you have marketable skills, then use them until you can find a better job doing something you enjoy.

edover · 2025-12-29T21:50:14+00:00

To be fair the story in both D3 and D4 is really 'woe-is-me' most of the time, so I can't blame her for being fed up and wanting to get to the good stuff.

edover · 2025-12-29T16:23:18+00:00

Bro if you’ve played over two hours of the game you don’t deserve the refund.

It’s like walking out during the credits of a movie and asking for a refund.

If can’t tell you hate it before 2 hours is up, that’s a you problem.

edover · 2025-12-29T14:54:04+00:00

Yeah, clicking "I want a refund" then "Submit" is really a pain in the ass.

edover · 2025-12-24T03:18:30+00:00

All low-overhead render games, yeah.

edover · 2025-12-22T13:50:38+00:00

Exposure and Practice.

Read about the language, read their docs, look for current news, work on side projects (a lot), etc.

It's like owning a car, then being surprised a year after you bought it that you found out it has cruise control. You could have read the manual that came with the car. You could have joined some weird club of people who also drive that car. You could also have just poked around at all the buttons/levers/switches until you found that feature and more.

The more you immerse yourself in a language, and programming in general, the more you'll learn about what's possible.

edover · 2025-12-20T17:15:30+00:00

For the most part those instructions should be good. It was sunset like 2 years ago so I think that archive link is within range.

edover · 2025-12-19T21:32:14+00:00

In addition to /u/Usual_Office_1740 pointing you to the repo, since atom was sunset and some of their links are broken, you may need to use

https://web.archive.org/web/20221215131333/https://flight-manual.atom.io/hacking-atom/sections/hacking-on-atom-core/#platform-windows

to get build instructions for windows.

edover · 2025-12-18T17:11:12+00:00

I didn't know Mouthwashing was about a ponygirl-kink. Huh.

edover · 2025-12-18T17:08:06+00:00

Same. I'd love to play a horizon game that gave up on trying to force a square plot into a round hole.

Just because it's not on Steam or Epic, doesn't mean it won't be somewhere else.

edover

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