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art is in the eye of the observer

Right.
That's why photography can be art.

And here is a nice piece of unintentional computer-generated art: I call it bugart.

True, but quick and simple tools are also valuable.
I'm a newbie in this area, but I miss something straighforward like Fruit Loops, on which I created a (rather bad) song using only unedited Quake 3 sounds.

In fact, I tried many Linux trackers, but Fruit Loops was the only one I was able to easely understand and use, though I have not tried really hard.

Way to go, Chim-Chim!

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.

This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.

Exactly.
I heard rumors the Palito team is going to re-activate their Free TA-inspired (not clone) project soon...

I have been using these features since phoenix0.5 days.
Quicksearches I use:

fm http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=%s&section=projects
man http://linux.ctyme.com/cgi-swish/linuxdoc.cgi?quer y=%s&sort=swishlastmodified&reverse=on
cpan http://search.cpan.org/search?query=%s&mode=module
w http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
e2 http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s
dic http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

google:
g http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s
l http://www.google.com/linux?q=%s
img http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
def http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A%s

Also, when on a text console, I made a script to perform similar function: google.sh.
Tip: symlink it to different names to make your life easier.

Just use this handy script.

Both the Racer binary (couldn't compile: "ar: q3ddlg.o: File format not recognized") and TORCS (compiled fine) freezed my X completely, and I had to hard-reboot (ctrl-alt-backspace does not kill X on my cheap mobo, the machine enters sleep mode instead). Ah, and it's a GeForce2 (nVidia driver 1.0-5336), kernel 2.6.6.

An other (unrelated) problem I have here is that many OpenGL apps seems to run in software mode (< 5fps, depending on the game). Note that, for instance, Quake3Arena runs with decent (> 50) fps.

The only racing game for linux runned ok for me was carworld, that suffers the same from other Free games: the guts of the game are working, but the game is far from complete, not even playable. They seem to have a tendency to stagnate at this (production/polishing) stage.

Anyone knows a Linux program that looks like Fruity Loops?
I had fun with Fruit Loops 3 once (made a song out of QuakeIIIArena sound samples), but when I tried to do the same with Linux I coundn't find a program I could understand (I'm not used to trackers).

Some guys are trying to make an open-source game inspired on TotalA.
Check their homepage: http://palito.9hells.org
They even have a nice feature comparision table
It looked promising, but unfortunatly the project seems stalled for some months.. volunteers?

Some guys are trying to make an open-source game inspired on TotalA.
Check their homepage: http://palito.9hells.org
They even have a nice feature comparision table
It looked promising, but unfortunatly the project seems stalled for some months.. volunteers?

There is an open-source effort to create a game similar to TotalA. It's a bit stalled, looks like the developers took a little vacation, but it's not dead at all .. just resting ;)

If you like Total Annihilation, perhaps you would like to know Palito, a free RTS game being developed by fans of TotalA.

It's still very imature, the graphics are kinda crappy (they're focusing more on the engine for now), but looks promising.
They have a nice feature comparision table with TotalA and other RTS games.

If you like Total Annihilation, perhaps you would like to know Palito, a free RTS game being developed by fans of TotalA.

It's still very imature, the graphics are kinda crappy (they're focusing more on the engine for now), but looks promising.
They have a nice feature comparision table with TotalA and other RTS games.

Nice to see there is someone else that love TotalA here.
You may like to know palito, a free RTS game made by TotalA fans.

I see people saying TotalA is can be modded, but I think it's way too limited. Just creating new units and maps, and changing the rules a bit is not enouth.

I (and my TotalA friends) have some great ideas for modifying the game, but it's closed, and we don't have the chance. I'm even considering creating a new RTS game from scratch.

How hard it would be to try to get access to the code of TotalA? Certainly those enthusiasts out there already have tried.. Any ideas?