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Thanks for all the tips. I found some useful info. Most important lesson for me was to understand how long journey I have to go before I can think of writing any sort of demo. By reading some pouet topics I found out that some people use SDL (and some takes it also quite religiously). I see the point in using SDL but for now I'm going to do everything as low level as I can. Somehow high level apis would take the fun(and the whole point) out of it (IMHO).

BTW, I don't care about the window. I just want to output to the display. So I did some googling about running opengl without X. It's possible but in the end X is easier. Doing it without X requires some other libs anyway.. I also found this useful http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7014&page=1

At this point I do not have a project yet. I just wanted to narrow down the technologies I want to use. I think I will use alsa for sound (the way hellfire suggested) and OpenGL as directly as I can (without any helper libs like GLUT or SDL). Thanks again for your insight. I will get back here when I get something pulled together and/or have more questions


BR, steeni

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and and have no experience of demos. I'm exited about 4k and now I'm planning to implement something small on my spare time as a hobby.

I have understood that no particular libraries can be assumed to be found in the machine that is running the demo. Everything should be in the 4k executable, Am I right? If I'm writing a project that uses OpenGL can I statically link it into executable and still get it all fit into 4k? I'm going to work in linux environment and don't have a clue of what to use for audio. Any suggestions, pointers and tutorials for 4k demo in linux environment are greatly appreciated.

Thanks, steeni