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Yesterday I did some more work on the Principia for Windows XP builds. libcurl is now built with mbedtls meaning it supports the modern security stack required by the community site, and an up-to-date CA store is also bundled with the game.
I also made an […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Also available on #PeerTube, as with every other level showcase video:
https://tube.fediverse.games/w/jBz37AtvDrXkeivqZB5dDH
#opensource #gaming #robotics #video
Principia successfully runs on Windows XP again!
Recently I compiled the game and its dependencies with a custom built mingw-w64 toolchain targeting Windows XP, but as my virtual machine did not have hardware acceleration I could not actually test if it worked […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
New quick level showcase video on the Principia YouTube channel today, showcasing Running Droid Legs by Rubicon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJS6BlRNWIA
#foss #opensource #sandbox #video #youtube
Feeling gaslit into believing snprintf maxlen should be len-1 because of Principia's codebase
Principia 2026.06.06 is now out! It is primarily a maintenance release with all the bugfixes and other improvements that have accumulated since last year, but there is also a new user data directory location and structure.
Linux users can rejoice as ~/ […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
The build uses the Dear Imgui backend as GTK3 almost definitively does not support XP, and if it does I don't want to build their entire dependency tree from source. Usabiility would be a bit limited but at least you could play levels on an XP machine.
...Well, cURL is also built with SChannel […]
After getting Legacy Update and installing some more drivers and updates, I could finally do the thing I needed XP for anyway... Testing the Principia build I had made earlier with my toolchain targeting XP.
I moved it onto a thumbdrive, copied it over, and […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Yesterday I built my own GCC-based mingw-w64 cross-compiler toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows XP to compile Principia along with its dependencies.
The resulting build runs under Wine as a smoketest and the executable and libraries manage to execute under XP […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
