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This looks neat, but have you seen BFRIS? It's been out for over a year now and has linux and windows demos. It even runs well on low-end 3dfx cards and 28.8 modems.

Greetings,

Just saw the note on linuxgames about UT not making it to the retail CD at GT's
request... An interesting sort of side-note is that a different division of GT
Interactive, GT Value Europe, *did* include Linux binaries of our game BFRIS on
the retail CD in Europe as part of the "GT Select" line. BFRIS just began
selling in Europe and we recently received a copy of the English/Italian/Spanish
version, which does include linux binaries on the CD along with the win32
binaries. I know that BFRIS is also selling in Germany and Holland, but don't
have details (yet) about where else in Europe it might be available on store
shelves. Keep in mind that GT "main line" (which is distributing Unreal
Tournament in the US) is a different division from GT Value Europe, but I
thought it was interesting that GT Europe was apparently willing to tackle the
support overhead.


That said, I can sympathize at least with GT's UT concerns: 90%
of the support calls and emails for BFRIS are from linux customers -- this
isn't a dig against linux users, but more due to the constantly changing
nature of linux kernels, libraries, OpenGL standards, hardware driver
development, etc. As we were doing all of our own support (and linux is the
primary development platform) we can field the questions and it's not a big
deal, but I'd hate to try to train a bunch of win32 people on how to answer the
various linux-related support questions.

Greetings,

Just saw the note on linuxgames about UT not making it to the retail CD at GT's
request... An interesting sort of side-note is that a different division of GT
Interactive, GT Value Europe, *did* include Linux binaries of our game BFRIS on
the retail CD in Europe as part of the "GT Select" line. BFRIS just began
selling in Europe and we recently received a copy of the English/Italian/Spanish
version, which does include linux binaries on the CD along with the win32
binaries. I know that BFRIS is also selling in Germany and Holland, but don't
have details (yet) about where else in Europe it might be available on store
shelves. Keep in mind that GT "main line" (which is distributing Unreal
Tournament in the US) is a different division from GT Value Europe, but I
thought it was interesting that GT Europe was apparently willing to tackle the
support overhead.


That said, I can sympathize at least with GT's UT concerns: 90%
of the support calls and emails for BFRIS are from linux customers -- this
isn't a dig against linux users, but more due to the constantly changing
nature of linux kernels, libraries, OpenGL standards, hardware driver
development, etc. As we were doing all of our own support (and linux is the
primary development platform) we can field the questions and it's not a big
deal, but I'd hate to try to train a bunch of win32 people on how to answer the
various linux-related support questions.

Greetings,

Just saw the note on linuxgames about UT not making it to the retail CD at GT's
request... An interesting sort of side-note is that a different division of GT
Interactive, GT Value Europe, *did* include Linux binaries of our game BFRIS on
the retail CD in Europe as part of the "GT Select" line. BFRIS just began
selling in Europe and we recently received a copy of the English/Italian/Spanish
version, which does include linux binaries on the CD along with the win32
binaries. I know that BFRIS is also selling in Germany and Holland, but don't
have details (yet) about where else in Europe it might be available on store
shelves. Keep in mind that GT "main line" (which is distributing Unreal
Tournament in the US) is a different division from GT Value Europe, but I
thought it was interesting that GT Europe was apparently willing to tackle the
support overhead.


That said, I can sympathize at least with GT's UT concerns: 90%
of the support calls and emails for BFRIS are from linux customers -- this
isn't a dig against linux users, but more due to the constantly changing
nature of linux kernels, libraries, OpenGL standards, hardware driver
development, etc. As we were doing all of our own support (and linux is the
primary development platform) we can field the questions and it's not a big
deal, but I'd hate to try to train a bunch of win32 people on how to answer the
various linux-related support questions.

The second Linux game was BFRIS.
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