Hi all,
right on time for the 1st January 2016, I finished the first part of the major update of www.FreePascal-meets-SDL.net. That’s an excellent start of the new year, isn’t it? đŸ™‚
At the same time I’m happy and proud to announce that www.FreePascal-meets-SDL.net exists for ten years now! It has been originally established on 20th July 2005 and got 34,000+ views by now. It helped a lot of people to get familiar with Free Pascal and SDL or SDL2 and got a lot of positive responses.
I would like to thank all of you readers and supporters for your responses and encouragement in the past ten years, since I’m sure, without this, www.FreePascal-meets-SDL.net wouldn’t exist anymore today. A special thanks goes to Cybermonkey (developer of the amazing SDL based EGSL Engine) who made many helpful and encouraging comments and to the whole Pascal Game Development Community where a fruitful affiliation has been established for many years.
For the new year and the ten years anniversary I decided to improve the website’s design since the old design is classic yet outdated in many ways, not only from an aesthetic point of view. I would like to allow for more interactivity, e.g. allow for comments directly to a certain tutorial page. Additionally the site is mobile-friendly now. Also I stopped using third-party forum software or a third-party visitor counter, which was suitable back in 2005. Just to name a few aspects, expect even more improvements and changes to come. At the moment the forum is gone completely, anyway, I’m not decided yet, if I re-introduce an own forum again.
All the seven chapters of the SDL 2.0 Tutorial have been corrected and extended and a completely new chapter consisting of two parts has been added. Step by step I will update the content (e.g. SDL 1.2 Tutorial) for the new design. Until I’m finished with transferring and making up the content, there is a link “Old Website” in the menu which will link to the old Website. So you can still access all the old resources.
The download area will be gone for now, since all downloads there are just related to the SDL 1.2 Tutorial and furthermore it would be more convenient to have them directly within the chapter page that is related to them. The tables section is also gone for now, no need for having them anymore.
And now have fun exploring the new site and functionality. By the way, you should be able to log-in via several social media services (e.g. Twitter), so you are not in need to create a new account.