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Terminus Demo Released
Geert-Jan writes: "The Linux version of the Terminus demo is now available at Maximum Linux. I also have a mirror up at A Talent For War. The Windows and Mac versions should be out later today at the Adrenaline Vault and Inside Mac Games, respectively."
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The mac version is out, though the main page at Inside Mac Games doesn't show it yet. You can get it over here, or at A Talent For War (direct link).
Hmmm. Strange graphical artifacts. Quit. Hmm. won't quit. Log in from different computer and kill process.
Rerun. Artifacts gone. Goody. Adjust detail level down, since I expect default to be for graphic cards above mine... Start training mission.
Still erratic movement. Almost impossible to centre ship on target. :( Manage to complete 2 training missions, but realise that combat will not be even remotely possible with this behaviour. Log in from other computer and kill process.
All in all: It's only a demo, so I shouldn't expect everything to be fully optimized yet. And also, my old G200 is most likely starting to show trends of getting a little to old for this kind of work.
Todo
Try decreasing X-resolution to 640x480x16 to free up graphics adapter memory.
Fetch Windows-version and try to see differences.
- the Crazy Fraggle
I took the liberty of setting up a mirror (Southeast USA) before the sites get slashdotted. Hopefully you guys won't slashdot mine too heh. Here's the link: Terminus Demo for Linux
Just do a ln -s and ldconfig, dude...
Playing with the mouse sensitivity setting didn't help; the mouse is jumpy and erratic. The game overall is not smooth. If this is anything like the final version will be, I'm not buying it. I tried it on two Pentium II class systems, each with over 100M ram and running nothing but X. One had a Mach64 video card, and the other a Trident975. I suppose its *possible* the video card is at fault, but why would that affect the mouse?
Robots. Lots of robots.
I can run the game and view the various menus and briefing screens, but when it goes to 3d space combat the screen goes black or shows a bunch of garbage. (I assume it is the 3d part from the sound effects that are playing).
on the VV web page it says you need Xfree 4.0, but I am only running 3.3.6 w/ utah-glx. I'm not particularly eager to install 4.0 since I hear it is not very stable yet. I'd just like to know if it works with XFree 4.0 before I try to upgrade. So has anyone got it working?
ftp://ftp.maximumlinux.com/ TerminusDemoLinuxFull.tar.gz to get straight to the file; the article poster got the first 2 links wrong :) And that's http://www.maximumlinux.com/ for the homepage, not http://ftp.maximumlinux.com/ ;-)
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The main page is http://www.vvisions.com/terminus/, not http://www.vvision.com/terminus/.
---- I made the Kessel Run in under 11 parsecs.
Thankfully I downloaded it before the post, I've also played through the training and storyline.
:)
Its pretty good on my tnt2u, with the latest nvidia drivers.
Starting it up and browsing the setup options I noticed it defaulted to 1600x1200 for opengl, and I thought it'd really run like a dog, but it really plays well. I'm going to try and find more absurd options to turn on
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Terminus is a space combat sim featuring newtonian physics, a persistent universe, dynamic economy, a campaign that can be played both in multi- and single player and from 3 differented "perspectives" (Earth Military, Mars Military and pirate/mercenary). Shipping date is June 27th, and it will ship with Windows, Linux (x86 only) and Mac binaries in one box. You can pre-order the game here. More info can be found at the fan site Station Terminus.