On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Andy Stewart wrote:

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Hi Everybody,

My apologies for the late notice. We do indeed have a WLUG meeting on Wednesday evening, October 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM on the WPI campus.

Our speaker will be WLUG member Tim Keller, and the topic will be Pygame.

Hi All, I wanted to follow up on a few threads from last night's meeting... - I learned from Tim's presentation that Pygame wraps SDL, as well as providing other useful classes and code. I happened to be poking around the Spore installation on my Macbook, and I found that it uses SDL, and even includes source! guinan@macbook:~ $ find /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/ ... /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework/Headers /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework/Headers/begin_code.h /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework/Headers/close_code.h /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework/Headers/SDL.h ... /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app//Contents/Frameworks/SDL.framework/SDL-source-with-transgaming-updates.tar.gz ... Not Linux-specific, sure, but neat that SDL is used in one of the biggest games of the past year. - Possible solution for the broken sound device on that laptop, http://rightsock.com/~kjw/Tech/usb-sound-C-Media.html - Andy and other ham enthusiansts, you might like this podcast, http://soldersmoke.com/ Its mostly about Ham radio, but also homebrew electronics in general, with some amateur astronomy, and in recent episodes he's been doing more and more with Linux. Later, -Jamie