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  1. Mirrored at Open Source Gaming by prezkennedy.org · · Score: 4, Informative · on Total Annihilation Remake Released

    If you don't feel like dealing with BitTorrent, you can download the full version or the source from Open Source Gaming.

  2. Mirrored at Open Source Gaming by prezkennedy.org · · Score: 4, Informative · on Total Annihilation Remake Released

    If you don't feel like dealing with BitTorrent, you can download the full version or the source from Open Source Gaming.

  3. Mirrored at Open Source Gaming by prezkennedy.org · · Score: 4, Informative · on Total Annihilation Remake Released

    If you don't feel like dealing with BitTorrent, you can download the full version or the source from Open Source Gaming.

  4. Re:Follow-up questions on the above by prezkennedy.org · · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Project Management for Beginners?
    I've been actively following open source game (it's been linked to from Slashdot a couple times) development for awhile and might be able to provide you with some useful pointers.
    • You could get a Linux maintainer, or you could attempt to use the compile features at Slashdot, they have many different types of boxes and operating systems for you to choose from. If you want to support all Linux versions, definitely see about getting a helpful maintainer to keep the source working and be able to compile something that works for a majority of the distributions out there.
    • SourceForge is the largest community, but BerliOS is nice as well as it has SVN, CVS, and most of the other nice features that SourceForge has. Admittedly, the community is much smaller so you'll receive less traffic if you go there (but that didn't stop me from signing up my project).
    • Make an AUTHORS file in the root of the source code and give them credit for what they did. You could also have a credits option in your game and list contributors.
    • Someone else mentioned the meanings of the different terms so I won't go into that. You can however, have as much leeway as you wish when it comes to numbering conventions. Just be consistant!
    • Wikis can be useful for OS projects as BZFlag will show you.
    • If you have legal questions, first look through the licenses at the Open Source Initiative to see what they have to offer. It's a good idea to use your common sense for most things, but if you have really pressing issues you might be able to ask the folks at the FSF (they have some very brilliant minds at work there), or you may have to find and befriend a lawyer. ;-)
    Hopefully that helps you out a little bit, development is one of those things that you can run yourself. Just don't abandon your work after a few months. I hate when people make a page on SourceForge and then don't go anywhere with it. It wastes my time and their resources when I go through trying to find the latest game projects.
  5. Re:Oh Gawd! - mentifex kook has escaped usenet asy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual


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    eGovOS Open-Source Government Reference Book includes Mentifex AI

    Free Software Donation Directory: Mentifex AI Project

    Nanomagazine interviews Mentifex on independent AI scholarship

    Redpaper archive of Mentifex documents on artificial intelligence

    AI has been solved.

    Agents Portal selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

    GameDev.net selling Mentifex AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence

    GreatMindsWorking selling Mentifex AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual