LÖVE

Hey guys! I'm a newbie at Löve here and i'm making something in Löve – a platformer – since i alreday got some experience at GM. Anyway, a lot of the other programs out there had old versions of their binaries for legacy support, I really liked Love since it supported my comp (with a pretty old TNT2 card) in 0.8 until i installed 0.9 which is a little more beefy at best whn using HW, so it crashed on me. I was hoping if there are copies of a zip verion of 0.8 around, so that i'll fiddle around with it for a little while longer...

I'll still might going to be posting a tad more here (I'm off work now for xmas vacation) and i'm going to be showing my progress about my platformer. Thanks once again!

~CRxTRDude

PS: if some of you would ay that i'll just upgrade my card, i don't have the budget yet and even if the comp is pretty dated, running on Win XP, i'm already satisfied by it (for now)

CRxTRDude wrote:I was hoping if there are copies of a zip verion of 0.8 around, so that i'll fiddle around with it for a little while longer...

Sure.

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EDIT: Removed links, just use the official builds.

The official downloads for 0.8.0 (and newer and lower) are all here: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads

Nice! Thanks a bunch! I was wondering if there would be support for older cards like mine or you guys are going to the HI-Powered HW route?

Anyhow, I really loved this thing, i think i would stick around here for a very while longer

BTW just a suggestion, it would be nice to put the bitbucket link on the main site though ... For some people's sake (Or is it just me) ....

EDIT! Rubber piggy works, but dragdropping a folder to love exe doesn't work, how come? Used the zip. Prior to that though, i installed 0.9 (as i said) I don't know if it broken something or placed registry or ini to the system...

EDIT on second thought, it's my bad. I didn't made changes regarding 0.8's changes from 0.9's (specifically drawq). SORRY GUYS.

CRxTRDude wrote:I really liked Love since it supported my comp (with a pretty old TNT2 card) in 0.8 until i installed 0.9 which is a little more beefy at best whn using HW, so it crashed on me.

The TNT2 only supports DirectX 6 and OpenGL 1.2, apparently. That's below what LÖVE is designed to run on most of the time, but I had actually thought I'd made 0.9.0 more compatible with older GPUs compared to 0.8.0, not less. Regardless, I don't think the next versions will have lower system requirements than 0.9.0 unless the cause of your issues is a bug which affects more modern systems.

(see also: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issue/7 ... red-opengl )

Does it crash all the time in 0.9.0 or only in specific circumstances? If you make a completely empty game (empty main.lua file), does it still crash? Maybe we could narrow this down.

the TNT2 card is nearly older than me.

slime wrote:Does it crash all the time in 0.9.0 or only in specific circumstances? If you make a completely empty game (empty main.lua file), does it still crash? Maybe we could narrow this down.

Well, when i jsut open love without a file, it crashes, so i think all the time. Tried to run my modified code, it also crashes.

CRxTRDude wrote:Well, when i just open love without a file, it crashes.

Right, but what about if you make a completely empty game and open that? The no-game screen crashes for you, but does a game which doesn't draw anything or create any graphics resources?

I'll see that, after i'll get my hands on my comp (my dad is using it and i couldn't interrupt him)

EDIT:

slime wrote:Right, but what about if you make a completely empty game and open that? The no-game screen crashes for you, but does a game which doesn't draw anything or create any graphics resources?

@slime: You're right. It works with a blank main.lua... Sorry bout that.

Sorry for reanimating this thread, but slime - could you maybe add a link to the old version to the download section on the main page?

I keep on searching for them - this was the third time I think - and it always takes a while till I end up on the bitbucket site. Just an "older versions" Link on that page would be great.