NekoEngine Classic

Description

Cross-platform game engine for older systems.

Supported platforms:

• Windows 2000 and newer
• Linux on x86_64 & arm64 (ppc64 should work too, but i can't test it)
• Mac OS X 10.4 ppc
• Xbox

Supported rendering APIs:

• Direct3D8
• Direct3D9
• OpenGL 2.0+ (the 1.5 implementation in Mac OS X 10.4 has all the needed functionality)

This repository is a mirror which is not frequently updated.

Build instructions

Windows

Prerequisites

• Visual C++ 6
• Microsoft Platform SDK February 2003 (latest Platform SDK to support VC6)
• DirectX 9.0b SDK or DirectX 8.1 SDK

Build

1. Clone the repository
2. Clone the data repository found at https://github.com/nalexandru/NekoEngineClassicData in SOURCE_DIR\bin\Data
3. Open NekoEngine.dsw
4. Build NekoEngine and one of the drivers

*nix

Prerequisites

• gcc 4 (3 might work but it's not tested)
• X11 & OpenGL development files
• autoconf
• automake

Build

1. Clone the repository
2. Clone the data repository found at https://github.com/nalexandru/NekoEngineClassicData in SOURCE_DIR\build\Data
3. Run the following

autoreconf --install
cd build
../configure
make
mkdir -p Data/Shaders/OpenGL
cp ../Drivers/OpenGL/Shaders/*.* Data/Shaders/OpenGL/

Notes

• It has been tested only on Linux on:
  • arm64: Raspberry PI running the 64-bit version of Raspbian
  • x86_64: Ubuntu 20.10

Mac OS X

Prerequisites

• Xcode 2.4

Build

1. Clone the repository
2. Clone the data repository found at https://github.com/nalexandru/NekoEngineData in SOURCE_DIR\build\Data
3. Build NekoEngine.xcodeproj

Notes

• It has only been tested on Tiger running on PowerPC machines (a G4 and a G5)

3rd Party libraries

• PhysFS - https://icculus.org/physfs/
• Lua - https://www.lua.org/
• cgltf - https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf
• Jsmn - https://github.com/zserge/jsmn
• stb_image, stb_image_write, stb_vorbis - https://github.com/nothings/stb
• glad - https://glad.dav1d.de/