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Originally Posted by The Lopen
I saw in many threads that pbchess worked quite well up to a certain firmware and hasn't received updates since. Is there currently a replacement?
If not, I know some programming and would like to try making a replacement for Kobo. Are there guides on how to go about doing that?
Thanks for any and all help.
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You could try vlasovsoft's suite. The chess does work on my Clara HD, and it seems like a real quality program. Some doubt about on the Libra 2:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=352542
I played a quick game to reonfirm 22.5.19 works on my Clara HD.
Even later version:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...85&postcount=6
To make your own, in addition to the rust Plato spinoff mentioned above, e.g.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=348481
If it's not arcade-style games Mavireck for example commented on python performance on kobo.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...70&postcount=2
If you know C++, you can check rmkit's performance in the input_demo and animation_demo.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=359125
If you know, C++ AND Qt, Szybet gave detailed guide.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4402333
If you want to see how viable games are in a chroot:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=55
* And of course, one of the INFRASTRUCTURE development projects, that elevate the entire dev and user community, maybe without us giving it much thought.
FBInk, for cross-device framebuffer support, or just getting something up on your display:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=299110
Besides C, there are bindings for Go, Lua, and Python.
See:
NiLuJe/FBInk
https://github.com/NiLuJe/FBInk
In fact sheep_wizard used py-fbink and the python from kobo-stuff to make a minesweeper game just this month,lol.
Kobo Minesweeper
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=358170
SheepWizard/kobo-minesweeper
https://github.com/SheepWizard/kobo-minesweeper
Yet another telnet/sshd & misc tools package...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=254214
It looks like someone implemented an immediate-mode library on their kobo.
https://github.com/embeddedt/lv_port_kobo
I'm not sure if it would be better to port a generic Linux implementation to FBink, while just using this project to consult.
** KOReader offers a plugin API that can be scripted with lua!
https://koreader.rocks/doc/index.html