FooBillard Ports Page
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FooBillard (official home page: http://foobillard.flockaroo.at) is a free (libre; licensed under GPL2) OpenGL
billiard game for Linux by
Florian Berger. This is the page for ports
of FooBillard hosted on SourceForge. At
the moment, a Win32 port is hosted here. The official page has an
OS X port and older Win32 ports. There is also a Polish version, see below for
more information.
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| Eight
Ball (56KB JPEG, FB2.9) |
Another
view (57KB JPEG, FB2.9) |
Closeup
(51KB
JPEG, FB2.9) |
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| Snooker
(60KB
JPEG, FB2.9) |
View
of cue (58KB
JPEG, FB2.9) |
Stereo
view (78KB
JPEG, FB2.9) |
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| Rendered
reflections (62KB JPEG, FB3.0) |
Rendered+fresnel
reflections (50KB JPEG, FB3.0) |
Cloth
texture and reflections (66KB JPEG, FB3.0) |
Click on the pictures to download
larger versions of the screen shots. These are from the Win32 port,
versions 2.9 and 3.0.
Please see the official page
for more screen
shots. Do play
the GNU/Linux version in
order to experience the original FooBillard. The rendered display with
high-quality settings is very nice
if you have a fast Nvidia card.
Foobillard summary information can also be found on Freshmeat and FSF's Software Directory.
Win32 Port (Version 3.0 Release 2, 2007-09-25)
FooBillard is best played on Linux
with
a GeForce2 class or better graphics card and OpenGL libraries
with 3D acceleration. Ported by Kein-Hong
Man, using Msys+Mingw and SciTE. FooBillard uses SDL, FreeType 2, libpng, zlib, and libgw32c from the GnuWin32 project. This
port would not have been possible without GNU
tools.
- FooBillard's Ports SF Project Summary Page
- Win32 port Version 3.0 Release 2 file list
- Link to download the Win32 Version 3.0 Release 2 binary (zip archive 1586KB)
- Piotr Potera has Polish a version at http://www.foobillard.er.pl/
Application Notes
What has been fixed in Win32 Release 2 for FB 3.0 (versus Win32
Release 1 for
FB 3.0):
- Configuration file now goes to the APPDATA path, per the normal practice for Win32 applications.
- Recent display drivers have a glitch displaying the 'fb' texture due to a texture clamping parameter, fixed.
- Some network code fixes from Filip Konvička; network play improved, but still needs more work.
- Libraries updated to latest versions, now dynamically linked.
What has been fixed in Win32 Release 1 for FB 3.0 (versus Win32
Release 2 for
FB 2.9):
- Most of FooBillard's features works, with some quirks.
- For non-Win32 specific changes from 2.9 to 3.0, please see the official page.
- Enabled multitextures (cloth effect) for cards with OpenGL drivers that support it.
- Rendered+fresnel reflections works on Nvidia cards that can handle vertex programs.
- Bump mapping should also work on suitable Nvidia cards, but I
haven't tested it. (Update: works on later Nvidia cards.)
If your graphics card and its Win32 OpenGL driver does not support
advanced visual effects, then FooBillard should ignore the high-quality
display settings and still work correctly. Older Intel graphics may
fail to render the fancy modes. Please see README.win32 in the
distribution for the details. The port is quite (but not
perfectly) stable. Network play has not been tested, you're welcome to
troubleshoot the networking code. As maintainer of the Win32 port, I
don't have any big plans; I'm barely familiar with OpenGL, and I
usually play FooBillard very casually, mainly for relaxation.
If you wish to give us a monetary contribution, please send
your donation to the Free
Software
Foundation. If you like FooBillard, please convey your words of
appreciation, encouragement or worship to Florian Berger. ;-)
Last
Revised: 2013-08-16