###########[ Things Currently Not Possible in LoveDOS ]#################

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Last updated: 2022/11/01

The following is a list of things you probably will not get working with
the current version of LoveDOS. HOWEVER, if you do happen to figure out
a work-around, please let me know.

-------------------[ Camera following player ]--------------------------

If you have tried to, or are thinking about having a setup in which a
camera follows a player, similar to that of a top-down RPG, in LoveDOS, 
you may want to consider forgetting about it unless you know how to edit
LoveDOS's source code. This is because the 'love.graphics.setScissor' 
function does not work.

For your project, you may also need to be able to run a few of the 
following:


    love.graphics.pop
    love.graphics.push
    love.graphics.translate
    love.graphics.rotate
    love.graphics.scale
    
However, in LoveDOS, these are also currently not possible. So, this 
either means that you need to be content with having the player run into
the screen edges as a trigger to load another area of a map or make a 
point-and-click game. It may also be possible that instead of moving the
player, perhaps everything else moves instead.

----------------------------[ SVG Images ]------------------------------

You will most like not get SVG graphics working in LoveDOS because of
missing functions like 'love.math.newBezierCurve'.

---------------------------[ > 256 Colors ]-----------------------------

You cannot have more than 256 colors and LoveDOS is very picky about
those colors. The easiest solution that I have found for this is to use
GIMP to switch an image to indexed color mode and use its included "Web"
palette. You may also want to use GIMP's "Colors --> Dither..." option
if you are not happy with the dithering options when switching to 
indexed colors.

--------------------------[ Partial Alpha ]-----------------------------

You cannot have images with partial transparency; they either must have
pixels with full color or be completely transparent, sort of like how 
GIF and 8-bit PNG images are.

---------------------[ Run batch (BAT) scripts ]------------------------

I know; LoveDOS is made to create games. But, what if you wanted to use
it to create a graphical user interface (GUI)? The "os.execute" function
will not run batch (BAT) scripts; HOWEVER, it will run EXE's. Something
to think about if you have the RAM for it.

---------------------------[ 3D games ]---------------------------------

You are not going to get 3D games working with LoveDOS, especially
since the first hurdle:

    love.graphics.newShader
    
...does not work. You will have do a bunch of pre-rendering if you 
really want a 3D-like look to your game but there will likely be no
"Wolfenstein 3D" or "Doom"-like games using LoveDOS anytime soon. Best-
case scenario, you may be able to use pre-rending to create top-down 
"Diablo" or "Age of the Empires"-like games, though you still will not
have a camera following the player; see "Camera following player"
section.