retro-demoeffects

Classic demo effects using software rendering

Prerequisites

To build the demo programs, you must first install the following tools:

Install dependencies

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install ninja gcc-c++ libSDL2-devel

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt install ninja-build g++ libsdl2-dev

Windows

Manually download and install MSYS2.

Run View advanced system settings from the Start menu and add a PATH to C:\msys64\mingw64\bin.

Run MSYS2 MSYS from the Start menu. Update the package database and base packages with pacman -Syu.

Run MSYS2 MSYS from the Start menu again. Update the rest of the base packages with pacman -Syu.

Install the development tools with pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2.

Close the MSYS2 MSYS window and run MSYS MinGW 64-bit from the Start menu.

Clone the git repository with git clone https://github.com/johangardhage/retro-demoeffects.git.

Finally, to be able to build the demos on Windows, edit the file build.ninja and uncomment the line # command = $cc $in $windows -o $out..

Build instructions

To build the demo programs, run:

$ ninja

A build directory will be created, containing the demo programs.

Usage

Usage: demo [OPTION]...

Options:
 -h, --help           Display this text and exit
 -w, --window         Render in a window
     --fullwindow     Render in a fullscreen window
 -f, --fullscreen     Render in fullscreen
 -v, --vsync          Enable sync to vertical refresh
     --novsync        Disable sync to vertical refresh
 -l, --linear         Render using linear filtering
     --nolinear       Render using nearest pixel sampling
 -c, --showcursor     Show mouse cursor
     --nocursor       Hide mouse cursor
     --showfps        Show frame rate in window title
     --nofps          Hide frame rate
     --capfps=VALUE   Limit frame rate to the specified VALUE