[tetrodozombie]

First Java. I guess there's no reason not to use Java anymore, but I can't help being bitter about the way they handled things in the past. I spent many many long hours ( this is back when I was using FreeBSD ), hacking away trying to get Java to run on a FreeBSD box. Going to sun's site. Give me more time to get over it.

I'm trying to keep things simple as possible. My decision is to use Cairo to program graphics. I'm accustomed to Object Oriented programming and have never tried to use C's procedural programming to implement certain graphical effects like bouncing, 3D, etc.

I'm going to play with it a while and see how it goes.

I hear there's something else called SDL, too. I might look into that.

I want to program graphics on my OpenBSD box, but I don't have time to try everything, so I have to pick something that's got power in it. C is very fast and there is no VM, I like that!