What are you developing on?
by Joshua "RegularX" Birk · in Torque Game Builder · 04/22/2005 (5:53 am) · 24 replies
Out of curiosity, what's everyone using to develop w/ T2D?
I broke my AMD box a few weeks back and ended up getting a Mac Mini to hold me over until I can proper repair it, so I've been using OSX with nothing but XCode and Pixen to get started. When I get something playable, I'll probably revive the PC for porting (and to catch up on all those games...)
Sadly my only Linux box these days is an old Thinkpad with Xandros on it.
I broke my AMD box a few weeks back and ended up getting a Mac Mini to hold me over until I can proper repair it, so I've been using OSX with nothing but XCode and Pixen to get started. When I get something playable, I'll probably revive the PC for porting (and to catch up on all those games...)
Sadly my only Linux box these days is an old Thinkpad with Xandros on it.
About the author
#2
P4 3.2GHz
1GHz DDR400 RAM
GF 6800 GT
2x80GB SATA HDD
Win XP
I'm thinking of having a change around though, as that's also my main machine for doing everything else on.
04/22/2005 (6:18 am)
I guess by todays standards, it's a fairly average machine:P4 3.2GHz
1GHz DDR400 RAM
GF 6800 GT
2x80GB SATA HDD
Win XP
I'm thinking of having a change around though, as that's also my main machine for doing everything else on.
#3
Linux: Athlon 1GHz, ATi 9600 pro, 1GB DDR333 RAM, 120GB WD HDD, Fedora. Currently doing duty as a UPS WorldShip server for wife's business, so I may not get it back :-)
Windows: I'm using my gaming/modding machine for development, so it's probably a bit of overkill :-)
Watercooled parts (all using Danger Den blocks):
Athlon 64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum mobo
BFG 6800GT perma-clocked at 440/1.1GHz
Watercooling core:
Danger Den 12V water pump
Danger Den dual bay acrylic reservoir
Black Ice 2x120mm radiator
Other components:
1 GHz Corsair Twin3200XL DDR400@2-2-2-5 RAM
2x73 WD 10K Raptors cooled/silenced by CoolerMaster CoolDrive 6s
CoolerMaster CM Stacker case w/Antec TrueControl 550W PSU
NEC dual layer DVD writer
04/22/2005 (7:20 am)
Mac: iMac Graphite SE 333 w/DVD and 512MB RAM.Linux: Athlon 1GHz, ATi 9600 pro, 1GB DDR333 RAM, 120GB WD HDD, Fedora. Currently doing duty as a UPS WorldShip server for wife's business, so I may not get it back :-)
Windows: I'm using my gaming/modding machine for development, so it's probably a bit of overkill :-)
Watercooled parts (all using Danger Den blocks):
Athlon 64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum mobo
BFG 6800GT perma-clocked at 440/1.1GHz
Watercooling core:
Danger Den 12V water pump
Danger Den dual bay acrylic reservoir
Black Ice 2x120mm radiator
Other components:
1 GHz Corsair Twin3200XL DDR400@2-2-2-5 RAM
2x73 WD 10K Raptors cooled/silenced by CoolerMaster CoolDrive 6s
CoolerMaster CM Stacker case w/Antec TrueControl 550W PSU
NEC dual layer DVD writer
#4
04/22/2005 (7:53 am)
I'm on an AMD AthlonXP 2800 (Which is around 1.2ghz actual processor speed), with 1gb of RAM, ATI Radeon 9600, and an SBLive! card. Runnig Debian Linux with KDE and using KATE for file editing and good ole make for compipling :p 
#5
Laptop
Win XP Pro
2.2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
64 mb Radeon 9000 mobility
512 mb SDRAM
40 GB HD
Desktop at home
Win XP Home
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
512 MB SDRAM
160GB HD
Another Desktop (this is where I do 90% of my tutorials =/)
Win XP pro
600 Mhz Intel Pentium 3
256 MB SDRAM
Intel 32MB Integrated Video =/
40 GB HD
04/22/2005 (8:13 am)
I use three machinesLaptop
Win XP Pro
2.2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
64 mb Radeon 9000 mobility
512 mb SDRAM
40 GB HD
Desktop at home
Win XP Home
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
512 MB SDRAM
160GB HD
Another Desktop (this is where I do 90% of my tutorials =/)
Win XP pro
600 Mhz Intel Pentium 3
256 MB SDRAM
Intel 32MB Integrated Video =/
40 GB HD
#6
1 Gig Dual Channel Hynix memory
5900 Nvidia
160GB SATA WD
RAIDMAX Scorpio case
04/22/2005 (8:23 am)
2.8 Prescott1 Gig Dual Channel Hynix memory
5900 Nvidia
160GB SATA WD
RAIDMAX Scorpio case
#7
PC: WinblozeXP Pro (Athlon 2400@2GHz, 160GB, 1.5GB RAM, ATI 9800 128MB)
04/22/2005 (8:28 am)
Mac: Powerbook 15" (1.33GHz, 80GB, 1GB RAM, ATI 9700 Mobility 64MB)PC: WinblozeXP Pro (Athlon 2400@2GHz, 160GB, 1.5GB RAM, ATI 9800 128MB)
#8
2 megs of memory
5 1/4 inch disks. (2 of them!)
CGA monitor.
10 meg hard drive
OS Dos 1.2 running Xtree Gold
I know that I am running way above todays standards for machines but I don't want to brag too much
04/22/2005 (8:57 am)
Genuine IBM 8088 proc2 megs of memory
5 1/4 inch disks. (2 of them!)
CGA monitor.
10 meg hard drive
OS Dos 1.2 running Xtree Gold
I know that I am running way above todays standards for machines but I don't want to brag too much
#9
04/22/2005 (9:10 am)
I am so jealous Charlie! 
#11
04/22/2005 (10:46 am)
Melv, I bet you wish I wasn't :)
#13
Win XP Pro
Intel Prescott 3.6Ghz
2GB DDR Ram
3 x 300Gb Sata HDD
Asus 6800 Ultra
Sony 23" Widescreen LCD.
Laptop
Win XP Pro
Dell M70
2.13 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
1GB RAM
15.4" Widescreen LCD.
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 256MB
60GB HDD.
Other Dev-Machine
ZX-Spectrum 48K
Zilog Z80A 3.54Mhz
48K Ram
Tape Recorder
256x192 Pixels (8 Colours).
I'm trying to port T2D over to the spectrum but it's not going too well.
- Melv.
04/22/2005 (11:17 am)
Desktop at homeWin XP Pro
Intel Prescott 3.6Ghz
2GB DDR Ram
3 x 300Gb Sata HDD
Asus 6800 Ultra
Sony 23" Widescreen LCD.
Laptop
Win XP Pro
Dell M70
2.13 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
1GB RAM
15.4" Widescreen LCD.
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 256MB
60GB HDD.
Other Dev-Machine
ZX-Spectrum 48K
Zilog Z80A 3.54Mhz
48K Ram
Tape Recorder
256x192 Pixels (8 Colours).
I'm trying to port T2D over to the spectrum but it's not going too well.
- Melv.
#14
Me, i mostly sit on my couch and tap away on my toshiba laptop:
celron 2ghz
half gb ram
40 gb hdd
Debian unstable
When i need to sit down and really churn out code/work on art related stuff, i have a POS windows machine:
700 mhz celron
192 mb ram
3 gb hdd
its there for a general purpose 'desktop', but its the weakest machine i have running.
Also, my home server, which i use as network storage (via smb):
AMD Tbird 1.1 ghz
768 mb ram
300 gb hdd space
debian testing
I also have an xbox running XBMC to watch my tv shows streaming from the server, and another htpc in another room. Its a nice little setup, but probably overkill (4 computers and xbox frontend for media for one guy?! heh)
04/27/2005 (10:02 am)
Ha, nice one melv.Me, i mostly sit on my couch and tap away on my toshiba laptop:
celron 2ghz
half gb ram
40 gb hdd
Debian unstable
When i need to sit down and really churn out code/work on art related stuff, i have a POS windows machine:
700 mhz celron
192 mb ram
3 gb hdd
its there for a general purpose 'desktop', but its the weakest machine i have running.
Also, my home server, which i use as network storage (via smb):
AMD Tbird 1.1 ghz
768 mb ram
300 gb hdd space
debian testing
I also have an xbox running XBMC to watch my tv shows streaming from the server, and another htpc in another room. Its a nice little setup, but probably overkill (4 computers and xbox frontend for media for one guy?! heh)
#15
1.5GB RAM
140GB internal HD
17" CRT Display
GeForce 3 64MB
Old, but hey it still runs most games :P
04/27/2005 (11:36 am)
Mac G4 Tower 733Mhz1.5GB RAM
140GB internal HD
17" CRT Display
GeForce 3 64MB
Old, but hey it still runs most games :P
#16
Dual P3 750 (Supermicro P6DBE)
512 megs PC100 ECC RAM
10 gig HD (System), 80 gig (everything else)
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128 megs DDR (AGP 8x which is great with my AGP 2x mobo)
Windows XP SP2
dual Nokia 21" monitors
(it runs World of Warcraft just fine, thank you very much! I LIKE 15fps)
Laptop:
iBook G4 800mhz
640megs RAM
ATi Mobile Radeon 9200 (9600? I dunno)
30 gig HD
OS X 10.3
Webserver (currently doing nothing, I gotta get busy)
HP LH4R Netserver
Quad P3 Xeon 500
1 gig ECC SDRAM
12 x 9.1 SCSI drives
OS: Probably Ubuntu Server running LAMP setup
Wish list:
Apple Dual G5 2-2.7ghz based machine and relegate Windows XP box for testing only
What about applications?
Hash: Animation Master (generate sprites)
Blender (ditto)
Photoshop 6.0 (image processing, texture creation, composition)
Reason 2.5 (music, sfx)
NI's free Carbon synth (ditto)
No sequencer yet, but I'm working on that... can't decide... Might just end up using garageband and making loops. :)
XFrog 3.5 (plants and stuff, I don't have this, but have worked with 3.02 a little bit.. this would save quite a bit of modeling time if I had $300-$400 to blow on it)
MojoWorld 2.0 (this is just fun to goof with)
Is there a Torque2D eclipse plugin yet?
04/27/2005 (12:37 pm)
Desktop:Dual P3 750 (Supermicro P6DBE)
512 megs PC100 ECC RAM
10 gig HD (System), 80 gig (everything else)
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128 megs DDR (AGP 8x which is great with my AGP 2x mobo)
Windows XP SP2
dual Nokia 21" monitors
(it runs World of Warcraft just fine, thank you very much! I LIKE 15fps)
Laptop:
iBook G4 800mhz
640megs RAM
ATi Mobile Radeon 9200 (9600? I dunno)
30 gig HD
OS X 10.3
Webserver (currently doing nothing, I gotta get busy)
HP LH4R Netserver
Quad P3 Xeon 500
1 gig ECC SDRAM
12 x 9.1 SCSI drives
OS: Probably Ubuntu Server running LAMP setup
Wish list:
Apple Dual G5 2-2.7ghz based machine and relegate Windows XP box for testing only
What about applications?
Hash: Animation Master (generate sprites)
Blender (ditto)
Photoshop 6.0 (image processing, texture creation, composition)
Reason 2.5 (music, sfx)
NI's free Carbon synth (ditto)
No sequencer yet, but I'm working on that... can't decide... Might just end up using garageband and making loops. :)
XFrog 3.5 (plants and stuff, I don't have this, but have worked with 3.02 a little bit.. this would save quite a bit of modeling time if I had $300-$400 to blow on it)
MojoWorld 2.0 (this is just fun to goof with)
Is there a Torque2D eclipse plugin yet?
#17
512Mb, 80+120Mb HDs
ATI 9800Pro 128Mb
Hyundai ImageQuest Q17 LCD
OS: Win2K
Canon IP4000 printer, (just new) Aiptek 8000U tablet
Beebem Acorn/BBC emulator to mimic my old BBC which is still in Holland (boots in 1 second and never crashes...who has the specs to beat that!!) ... Also left behind there are my 2 other PC's together with three old Eizo 21"s...
05/08/2005 (5:53 pm)
AMD Barton 2700+, NForce2 MB512Mb, 80+120Mb HDs
ATI 9800Pro 128Mb
Hyundai ImageQuest Q17 LCD
OS: Win2K
Canon IP4000 printer, (just new) Aiptek 8000U tablet
Beebem Acorn/BBC emulator to mimic my old BBC which is still in Holland (boots in 1 second and never crashes...who has the specs to beat that!!) ... Also left behind there are my 2 other PC's together with three old Eizo 21"s...
#18
WinXP
P4/2.4 ghz
512 RAM
Geforce2 w/128 VRAM (my gf4/4200ti burned out)
Secondary dev machine:
Mac OS X 10.3
G4/1.2 ghz
512 RAM
ATI something or other w/32 VRAM
Also test on:
Win ME
Celeron/800 mhz
128 RAM
Some OEM graphics card w/64 VRAM
05/08/2005 (7:20 pm)
Primary dev machine:WinXP
P4/2.4 ghz
512 RAM
Geforce2 w/128 VRAM (my gf4/4200ti burned out)
Secondary dev machine:
Mac OS X 10.3
G4/1.2 ghz
512 RAM
ATI something or other w/32 VRAM
Also test on:
Win ME
Celeron/800 mhz
128 RAM
Some OEM graphics card w/64 VRAM
#19
Linux (SuSE 9.3)
Athlon MP2400 x2
1GB RAM
nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 w/ 128MB
Secondary dev machine:
Win2k
Athlon XP3200
1GB RAM
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128MB
File server (NFS/Samba):
Linux (SuSE 9.1)
Athlon 1600 (I think, had to replace the chip at one point)
768MB RAM
no graphics card
80 GB RAID-1 (2 drives)
160 GB RAID-1 (2 drives)
DVD-RW (for backup)
daily snapshots of select directories using tar & bzip
Software:
GIMP 2
Photogenics 5
PageStream 5 (for docs and vector graphics)
Eclipse (just set this up for Torque)
Wacom tablet is indispensible (at 6" x 8" it isn't huge, but its large enough for me)
(I used to have UAE w/ JIT set up for running Amiga software -- and that loaded very fast, even on the 800MHz Athlon I was using at the time. A friend has a Pegasos 2 and that boots incredibly fast.)
05/08/2005 (8:15 pm)
Primary dev machine:Linux (SuSE 9.3)
Athlon MP2400 x2
1GB RAM
nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 w/ 128MB
Secondary dev machine:
Win2k
Athlon XP3200
1GB RAM
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128MB
File server (NFS/Samba):
Linux (SuSE 9.1)
Athlon 1600 (I think, had to replace the chip at one point)
768MB RAM
no graphics card
80 GB RAID-1 (2 drives)
160 GB RAID-1 (2 drives)
DVD-RW (for backup)
daily snapshots of select directories using tar & bzip
Software:
GIMP 2
Photogenics 5
PageStream 5 (for docs and vector graphics)
Eclipse (just set this up for Torque)
Wacom tablet is indispensible (at 6" x 8" it isn't huge, but its large enough for me)
(I used to have UAE w/ JIT set up for running Amiga software -- and that loaded very fast, even on the 800MHz Athlon I was using at the time. A friend has a Pegasos 2 and that boots incredibly fast.)
#20
Dell inspiron 8600
15.4" WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
128meg GeForceFX 5650Go
1.7Ghz Pentium-M
Bluetooth/802.11a/b/g
120gigs HD + 4x DVD+R writer
Desktop machine:
Athlon 64 FX55
2 gig Corsair pro-series ultra low latency ram
GeForce 6800 GT OC
1.5TB disk space (400GB Raid 0 SATA boot array)
4x Sony DVD recorder
16x Sony DVD recorder
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
And more other goodies than you can shake two sticks at.
05/09/2005 (1:29 pm)
Laptop machine:Dell inspiron 8600
15.4" WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
128meg GeForceFX 5650Go
1.7Ghz Pentium-M
Bluetooth/802.11a/b/g
120gigs HD + 4x DVD+R writer
Desktop machine:
Athlon 64 FX55
2 gig Corsair pro-series ultra low latency ram
GeForce 6800 GT OC
1.5TB disk space (400GB Raid 0 SATA boot array)
4x Sony DVD recorder
16x Sony DVD recorder
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
And more other goodies than you can shake two sticks at.
Torque Owner Hans Sjunnesson
I'm basically on a dual P3 866, with half a gig worth of RAM (with three out of four memory modules which are faulty), struggling by on some sixty gigs of HD space, and using gentoo-linux, vim and gcc 3.4.3 to do my bidding.