It died eh? That sucks. If I end up getting a room-mate soon (I hope so, I just spent $1500 (out of $900 I had to spend on it) on renovating my bathroom and spare room to make it more liveable in order to GET a room-mate) I will buy that device from my neigbour. IIRC its an Android 1.6 Archos device of some kind. Hopefully it'll work with allegro. I think that'd be neat.

I mainly just want to see how setting up the development environment would work with an older device, and test out a lot of the compatibility code (Which will be getting a rework sooner or later. probably rip out most of the current lookup code that checks for methods and fields, and just pass in a bitmap of supported features that the C then uses to check what to do).

Says the guy with a > 1.6 device.

And I don't like that attitude. It's the same attitude Apple fanboy developers have about iOS. Nobody's using previous generation, who cares, just upgrade.

It's not much extra work to support 1.6, in fact it already almost works so why remove support? I have a 1.6 device so I can fix it when I don't have a lot of stuff to catch up on.

The chart only reflects the exact syndrome I was talking about. Nobody wants to support older hardware, so there are few apps, especially new apps, available to older devices so they aren't accessing the market store (what that chart is based on.)

I said "major work" - if it's not much extra work, then do it.

I personally wouldn't spend a lot of time on it, and if it were me, I sure as hell wouldn't buy any 1.6 hardware to do the work. There is also question as to if the hardware is powerful enough to run the ported Allegro games.

Android 1.6 is only a couple years old. There's no reason not to support it. And there's no reason for it to hold back development in the future. Libraries go through changes. Allegro 4 to 5 dropped support for a lot of stuff. If supporting 1.6 would hold us back from some features on newer devices, then 5.4 or whatever could easily be the last version to support 1.6.

I tried from the SVN snapshots but seems outdated. I'm only on my galaxy tab right now, only wanted to peek at the source. I'll see if I can't find it.

I found it the harder way :-) looks good so far, I looked over the source some things were pretty rough but seems good progress. I'll see if I can't pry away from my wife and daughter sometime to test it out, I haven't even played with A5 yet so messing with android may be a bit too much so soon.

Progress is progress

Maybe its time to add it?

I think camera access on android is far more useful than cdrom access

What do you mean with CD-ROM access
What could you possibly want to do with the CD-ROM drive?

Googles...

Ah, for playing music tracks?
Do any new games still do that?