Slashdot Mirror

Mr. Carmack has said the later versions of DX (specifically 9) are just as good if not better then OpenGL, OpenGL no longer has anything serious on Direct X. Direct X is no longer the crap it once was.

Here's Johns 2007 Keynote from Quakecon(?) I believe.

http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Rage/Movies/john _carmack-quakecon-keynote-2007.mp3

Here's an exchange from the QuakeCon keynote last Friday:

Audience member:
"I wanted to say thank you for open-sourcing the Quake 3 engine, it's made a huge difference to the community. I wanted to ask your opinion about the future of Linux and open source gaming."

John Carmack:
"I do take a great deal of personal pride and satisfaction with what I've been able to do with getting so much of the stuff out. Sometimes I think about it, and while I know it's not something I'm generally considered for, I may be one of the most prolific open source authors considering all the code that I've written over the last 15 years that I've made open source, or have made open source there. I do think it's very valuable. I'm very happy when I see both user gaming community stuff, or research universities, or people doing simulation tests, or bringing up things. Every new piece of hardware ends up having Doom or Quake titles used as an early form of test application. So I'm very happy to have done that. It's certainly going to continue. I mean I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source. We still make those decisions even today when we're doing the Rage code when we have decisions about "do we want to integrate some other vendor's solution, some proprietary code into this". And the answer's usually no, because eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id, that the policy is that we're not going to integrate stuff that's going to make it impossible for us to do an eventual open source release. We can argue the exact pros and cons from a pure business standpoint on it, and I can at least make some, perhaps somewhat, contrived cases that I think it's good for the business, but as a personal conviction it's still pretty important to me and I'm standing by that."

Source: http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Rage/Movies/john _carmack-quakecon-keynote-2007.mp3 (about 1 hour 25 minutes in)

Beats of Rage uses copyrighted assets, I think. But OpenBOR, a fork, can use custom game packs and there are plenty of cool third party games for it. Super Mario War also uses copyrighted assets, circa Super Mario Brothers.

Quake can use third party assets like OpenQuartz or the official shareware data from id. Transport Tycoon Deluxe requires the original data files, which I happen to be lucky enough to own, but would download if not.

I would like to note that OpenTTD and SMW are two excellent examples of SDL portability, both running on many open and closed platforms.

As to dumping your own SNES roms... good luck with that.

http://www.3ddownloads.com/Strategy/Northland/Demo /NorthlandDemo.run

This is a nice demo of Northland : the best game that Linux has ever had !

Mirrors can be found here and here .
A FreeBSD port can also be found here, made by the guy who helped with the FreeBSD XBOX port.

Mirrors can be found here and here.
A FreeBSD port can also be found here, made by the guy who helped with the FreeBSD XBOX port.

Well, I don't run the site, and it is a 250+MB download, so I can understand their hesitancy to let just anyone use up their bandwidth. ;)

Here's what I found using Google:
Torrent links here
regular download here
and another faster-for-registered-users here

Download the demo here :
http://www.3ddownloads.com/Strategy/Robin%20Hood/D emos/rh-linux-demo-x86.run/

And please some submit the news to Slashdot (I am French, my english is too poor...)

There is an article at epci-interactive website
http://www.epic-interactive.com/Website2004/englis ch/index.htm/

Sorry for my off-topic

AlienSwarm_v1.zip:
Mirror 1 - 3ddownloads.com
Mirror 2 - icculus.org
Mirror 3 - Brody
Mirror 4 - nim-rod.net
Mirror 5 - Fileshack
Mirror 6 - Fileplanet
Mirror 7 - ut2003hq.com
Mirror 8 - extreme-players.de

http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Unreal%20Tournam ent%202004/Mods/AlienSwarm

There's also a Loki Setup-based Linux package here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liflg/alien.swa rm_1.0-english.run?download

Get the Linux demo at:

3D Downloads

And as a last resort:

david.hedbor.org

Try it. It's lost of fun!

"Initri writes "I read a news article (here) on Gamespot that the Freespace 2 source code has been released by Volition. You can download it there, or you can also download it here "

And I said in the story, not on the Gamespot site or any other page.

Sheesh.

Volition released the full source code for FreeSpace 2.

Very cool stuff. They still claim copyright -- they haven't GPLed it or anything -- but as far as I can tell it's free for noncommercial fan projects and such.

All source code herein is the property of Volition, Inc. You may not sell
or otherwise commercially exploit the source or things you created based on the
source.

Can't wait to mess around with this beast (four megs worth of code).

Yes there is a demo. Or multiplayer test I think it's called.

Download here.

Hope that for everyone who didn't get it from id software's ftp site that this link works: http://www.3ddownloads.com/?file_id=152201. That should get you three ftp sites to grab the full version.

Cheers!!
/pj

You can hear Carmack say all the same things, sometimes nearly verbatim, in the recordings of his QC workshop (especially in recording #1). Beware the murky sound quality, though it's a vast improvement over the first attempt to release these .mp3s.

87 Megs

Mirrors:
ftp://ftp.lokigames.com/pub/ demos/sof/sof-demo-x86.run

http://www.3ddownloads.com/s howfile.php3?file_id=87646

Linux
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.linuxgames.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com
MacOS
Mirror provided by www.insidemacgames.com
Mirror provided by www.macupdate.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Windows
Mirror list on www.3dfiles.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com

Here's a list of mirrors, straight from the site since it looks like they're going to get slashdotted pretty soon.

Windows
File size: 18MB
README
Local server (Vienna/Austria)
Mirror list on www.3dfiles.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com

MacOS
File size: 17.8MB
README
Local server (Vienna/Austria)
Mirror provided by www.insidemacgames.com
Mirror provided by www.macupdate.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net

Linux (x86)
File size: 16.9MB
README
Local server (Vienna/Austria)
Mirrorprovided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.linuxgames.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirrorwww.newsbytez.com

Linux
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.linuxgames.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com
MacOS
Mirror provided by www.insidemacgames.com
Mirror provided by www.macupdate.com
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Windows
Mirror list on www.3dfiles.com
Mirror provided by www.atfw.net
Mirror provided by www.gxp.de
Mirror provided by www.newsbytez.com

3D Downloads LinuxGames