Lite-C

History

The lite-C language and compiler was originally developed in 2007 by Conitec, Inc. for Atari, Inc., with the focus on creating computer games by non-programmers. Since 2010, lite-C is also used for defining automatic trade algorithms in day trading software.

Features

Lite-C has the following differences to standard C:

• Native multitasking and multiplayer support
• On the fly compiling
• Supports external classes (OpenGL, DirectX, Windows API)
• Implementation of the A8 rendering engine
• Function library for display/manipulation of 3D models
• Function library for rigid body physics
• Function library for vector and matrix functions
• Function library for GUI objects
• Function library for playing sound and movie files
• Remote control of arbitrary Windows applications
• Native support of DirectX 9 functions
• Small footprint - ca. 15 MB with compiler, IDE, debugger

Lite-C supports rudimentary classes and function overloading, but does not support advanced language concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, or operator overloading.

Examples

The following lite-C program prints "Hello World", then plays a movie file and exits.

void main()
{
   printf("Hello, World!"); // message box
   screen_size.x = 400;
   screen_size.y = 400; // resize the window
   int handle = media_play("greetings.mpg",NULL,50); // start a movie in the whole window at volume 50.
   while(media_playing(handle)) wait(1); // wait until movie was finished
   sys_exit(NULL);
}

The following lite-C program opens a 3D window and displays a spinning sphere

void main()
{
   level_load(""); // open an empty level. you can use NULL instead of ""
   ENTITY* sphere = ent_create("sphere.mdl",vector(0,0,0),NULL); // create sphere model at position (0,0,0)
   while(1) {
      sphere->pan += 1; // rotate the sphere with 1 degree per frame
      wait(1);  // wait one frame
   }
}

External links

• Official website
• Lite-C download page
• Lite-C user forum