I know a couple of weeks ago I posted a message recommended a person not learn REALBasic for their first language. I still believe in this very much, but we do apparently have a couple of people on this list that work with REALBasic. In my spare time I spend time helping multiple open source projects - one of them being OpenAL. I don't know if many of you are aware of this project, but more information can be found here:

http://www.openal.org

A person is currently trying to "port" openal to REALBasic. I am assuming this means a wrapper around the API. At any rate he is running into some trouble. I don't know enough to help him, nor do I have time to dig deep into this issue. If you are interested in helping out with this you should look at his webpage:

http://www.maui.net/~mauitom/openal.html

and his post:

http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2005-March/thread.html

which can be found there once the archives catch up. The linux implementation is not without flaws, unfortunately I found that it is difficult to get patches into the sample implementation. This should not dissuade us from providing help.

If you know REALBasic, have a moment and would like a project ... think about helping out. I don't ask because it is going to help me, but because I think it is just a good thing (tm).

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