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Return to Castle Wolfenstein Test for Linux
jon_c writes: "Id has just released Return to Castle Wolfenstein for Linux multiplayer client test, download here for the full version, or here if you've already installed the windows version."
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Too many ftp users. Already. Surely /. isn't that popular :/
Hmm. Shouldn't this be under "Quake III"? Two articles about the test demo in a little less than a week? What's next? One when the Mac version comes out?
i tend to agree with SilentChris on this one...maybe RTCW should have it's own topic, like quake does.
another "quality" nivelo9 comment
Well, what an idiot...... "LETS POST A LINK DIRECTLY TO THE MAIN FTP ON SLASHDOT!"
/. load IF more people would utilize it.
Maybe someone kind enough to share might want to mirror the linux release. This is crazy that jon_c posted a direct link and michael approved it.
Maybe next time posting the game to freenet first would be a good idea. Freenet is now a stable enough network to handle a
Ever need an online dictionary?
I'm impressed. This games preview is sweeeet. If this is a taste of what's to come, we're in for a treat.
I am Lord Snowbeam. Heed my call!
Go kill this one, too. I have my copy :-)
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/wolf/l
inux/wolfmptest-0.7.16-1.x86.run
GET IT HERE
The link might work if slashcode doesn't kill the html by breaking the line *sigh*
Who wants to bet someone is working on this even as we speak?
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Sweet, 100kbyte/sec comming from cdrom.com. Thnx for the mirror link.
wonder if cdrom.com can now break there previous trafic record (there the holder of the title 'max trafic in a day right?)
All the hubbub has sent me back to Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny, the best ID software games ever. I miss those wonderful grid-based levels, with their unflinching portrayal of Nazis at their evil utmost, and your good old american Joe going out to kill 'em. I reccomend digging up a copy of Wolfenstein 3D, First Encounter though it's not available for linux, if you want to feel some serious nostalgia.
My Karma is so good, I'm the Dalai Lama...or something.
http://wolfgl.sourceforge.net/
It works rather well (I ordered the commemorative edition of Wolf3D Activision released a few years back) with both the original Wolfenstein 3-D and the sequel, Spear of Destiny.
:wq
This is just a test. I played the single player at quakecon. It's real fun. I am sure there will be single player in the demo whenever that is released.
wonder if cdrom.com can now break there previous trafic record ([they're] the holder of the title 'max trafic in a day right?)
I think that fileplanet.com has them beat. They claim to have done over 20TB of traffic in less than one week.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
If you're like me and have added libsafe to /etc/ld.so.preload to watch for buffer overflow attempts (an awesome package, I might add), you'll get the following when trying to connect to a game or host your own, which of course exits the game:
/usr/local/games/wolfenstein/wolf.x86.
Libsafe violation detected on [machinename] at Sun Sep 23 00:25:03 2001
Libsafe version 2.0
Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Terminating
uid=0 euid=0 pid=10151
Call stack:
0x4001b465
0x4001b61e
Overflow caused by memcpy()
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
When they first released the Windows version, I rebooted to Windows (first time in months) to try it out. It was awesome. I thought I wouldn't get anything done. Then Windows crashed. I tried again, and Windows crashed. After 10-15 crashes I decided not to bother anymore. Productivity was restored.
:)
Now that it's available for Linux, productivity is guaranteed to decline. *sigh* Oh well.
...or is Linux only supposed to have closed-source software on one platform?
Oh, wait... perhaps it isn't? Unless you're living under a rock, you'll know that there is overall agreement that the terrorists were professionals who had planned their attack very carefully and thoroughly.
And, as we know, they passed the security checks, no matter how sophisticated (or not) they were. Now, one rather obvious conclusion to draw from this is that terrorists are well capable of striking with surprise. So, simpletons like you may lean back and follow their simple i will not get on an airplane with a towel head on it precautions. But it only makes you look like a moron, it doesn't make your life any safer.
Incidentally, its the same as the Win32 and Mac except its for Linux!! Was this really worthy of a story when the test has already been discussed here?
I can't join any of those server, i got a progress bar and then it dumped me on the main screen? anyone has the same problem?
File Planet isn't a single machine, it's dozens in a multitude of locations. Cdrom.com, which at the time was a lowly, single PPro 200MMX running FreeBSD still holds the record, which I believe was achieved during a previous RedHat release.
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
There is no such cpu as a 200 MHz Pentium Pro with MMX.
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Yeah, but it is also a game in its own Reich. *grin*
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
http://www.bluesnews.com/files/idstuff/wolf/linux/ wolfmptest-nomedia-0.7.16-1.shtml / wolfmptest-0.7.16-1.shtml
http://www.bluesnews.com/files/idstuff/wolf/linux
I just hope that ID has more of a committment to this Linux product then their readme.html would suggest. Have a look at the system requirements, and you'll probabbly seee what I'm talking about.
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" -- Calvin
02:21:55 (193.93 KB/s) - `wolfmptest-0.7.16-1.x86.run.1' saved [67861928]
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
As Linux users/admins, we're usually guessed to posses enough to look past these sort of discrepancies.
;-)
Especially since we all have so much experience with use of BETA software.
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8 bit graphics, chests of cannonballs that end the entire game, and the occasional bottle of Schnapps. Who could ask for more?
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http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Castl
Hi,
Linux gaming. Well it's coming along nicely. It's great that Id & Activision have the foresight and altruism to even bother doing this. I applaud them for that, it's almost brave!
RTCW is a great game & I can't wait for the full version, I've been enjoying it all week.
But I have to ask "Is there anything like the Microsoft Sidewinder Gamevoice for Linux?"
I don't mean the voice-over-ip part. I mean the voice control part. You see, seeing as there are 33 or so radio commands in the game it's a fantastic leap forward to be able to strap your headset mike on and operate them via voice.
Instead of typing v 2 1 to call for a medic all I have to do is say "medic", or "cover me" or any of the 33 commands. If I want to change weapons I say "knife" or "pistol" or "grenade" instead of fumbling around for the 1 2 or 4 key.
So is there any voice control software that would easily slot into a Linux setup to do this kind of work? Naturally it hurts to give Microsoft some $ but you can't warez the usb device!
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Damn sleazyspace must have took it off the server. Sorry 'bout that. 'f you still need it, I can email it to you.
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/bin/file is your friend. use it and check if its an executable. then run.
I even installed a spare 2GB SCSI drive just for Win98. I haven't booted Windows since like February. I think. I thought I'd be consumed by RtCW, and I was for a while. Then Windows crashed. It kept crashing. I got frustrated and yanked the drive out of my box. Problem is that I decided to try and get SiN working on my GeForce2. I spent much more time with WINE than I did with RtCW, which is probably good since I learned something.
I have grave fears that I might not get nearly as much off-hours learning and personal development done now that they have a Linux version. I was just getting bored with Tribes2, and figured that I could play with Tomcat. I don't think I'll get very far with that now...
-B
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The problem with your link is not the slashcode: it is that you don't put your target between "" after the a href=...
Like this!
Anyway thank you for this link...
Baal
First things first: all users need write access to your install dir . Saving individual settings to home dirs hasn't been implemented yet.
Linux wise, its the standard loki install. This util is still too stupid to ask for your root password, so substitute users first. Works happily with Mesa or NVidia/SGIs OpenGL implementation. No KDE / GNOME icons but I'm sure they'll be there in the non-alphas.
The game also occasionally started unusually slow. It was running at my desktop res - 1600 x 1200, and needed to be set down to 640 x 480 on my GeForce2MX (tho apparently these requirements will go down, and one of the weapons has a tendency to increase lag dramatically, which might account for my lack of frames). The game uses a lot of polygons, especially for the outside areas in this demo. The maps feel a little like Quake 3 Team Arena - wide open natural spaces with buildings thrown around them. The map in this demo has a lot of fotifications, including mounted weapons one can take control of.
Gameplay wise: Feels a lot like Unreal Tournament's Assault mode. This multiplayer test is a team game where the allies must storm an Axis beachfront, find some documents, and take them to a radioo room. There's different roles, Lieutenant, Soldier, Medic, and Engineer.
The Engineer has TNT to can blow up walls, can disable other peoples TNT, and has pliers which I think might cut through the barbed wire.
The medic hands out medikits. When you die on Wolf, you lay on the ground and be wounded. You can either sit there and wit for a medic from your team, or die immediately and respawn when the next `reinforcement' interval comes up.
The Soldier has a much wider range of weapons than the other two, including a massive gattling gun and the worlds first realistic video game flamethrower.
Neither I, nor anyone else, played Lieutenant.
Work a laugh: There's no swatikas, and the Allies flag is a US one. They're bowing down to the censorship idiots and offending those who actually fought at the same time. Oh well, its just a game...
If you want something to check your favourite servers with, I suggest XQF CVS.
You also might want to peruse the Linux Wolfenstein FAQ while downloading.
If that doesn't help you, check the Linux Quake 3 Arena FAQ for similar problems.
Check out ioquake3.org for a great, free, First-Person Shooter engine!
I would really like to see a PowerPC version of this. Many companies have released linux versions of their games, however most ignore the PowerPC completely. My linux box is PowerPC, and I would like to be able to run a Castle Wolfenstein server.
Well, there isn't *Windows version*. The -nomedia file is useful when you already installed the *WINE* version.
:wq
You can't actually *do* anything in it... it's locked into 'spectator mode'. This isn't made clear in the article (you do get to watch all the windows users killing each other though).
I wasn't impressed anyway... it's just counterstrike by another name, except it's stupidly CPU hungry - certainly my Dual Proc 800 + Geforce couldn't handle it without grinding to a halt every few seconds.
When I first started the client, it shut down with an error: "...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir". The problem is due to the fact that the NVidia GL lib is located in /usr/lib/GL, with a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libGL.so.
/usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.0.1512.nv_glx /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/libGL.so". A symbolic link in this directory did not work.
Problem was solved by doing a "cp
Although, this port was done by one guy at id, and in just a few days from start to finish, so maybe this particular linux port will generate a better than negative revenue stream.
Hopefully they will release a Linux version of the final product, and hopefully they will have a way to gauge how many people use it, and hopefully everyone who uses Linux and plays these kinds of games will buy it. hint hint, please drop a little money in support of gaming on Linux if you care about it at all ; )
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FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!! Just because a small group of people from one particular religion/ethnic group have performed what is admittedly probably the world's worst act of terrorism, it doesn't mean stupid fuckers like you should start hurling racist abuse at their whole culture!
It is exactly people like you who are causing the problems we face in the world today. Most Afghans/Arabs/etc would never condone what happened, but if people like you mistrust all of them just because some of them are evil, the problems will just get worse.
In the spoon, there is no Soviet Russia!
Wow, 10 hours later and there still aren't any posts +3 or higher. I guess the moderators are too busy playing the game. Way to go id!
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/idstuff/wolf/linu x/
:)
I just downloaded it at 400k/sec, only took ~2 minutes
until (succeed) try { again(); }
The Windows version didn't work right for some reason, maybe because it was running in windows. The Linux version is GREAT, in fact the rendering is faster than it was in windows. I'm looking forward to the full version.
Actually the original Castle Wolfenstein has been forbidden in germany. Not because you shoot germans or general violence, but because of the display of Nazi-symbols which was considered as glorifying them. Don't ask why shooting Nazis means gloriying them, or why Indiana Jones 3 has been shown in german cinemas, there is no logic behind it.
At the time, it was a Pentium Pro 200.
Jeremy
Sure, give it a try.
Most of the key binding will work in Wolfenstein, because that part of the engine is almost the same as Quake 3.
Although you will have some problems with the team-based stufff like the communicator and the limbo menu. Therefore you have to bind these extra keys in the Wolf configuration menu which shouldn't be much of a hassle.
Well it worked after making the usr/local/games/wolf* dir group owned by my user and chmod g+w *...
I got it running fine changed my options and what not but everytime I try and connect to a server I get knocked back to the original screen.
It was a PPro 200 w/ 1 gig ram originally. They said it had power to spare handling 1800 users.
Later, the machine was replaced with a Xeon 450 on a dual board with only 1 cpu and 4 gigs of ram. At that point, the user limit was raised to 5000, though later revised down to 3500 - possibly to reduce bandwidth usage. And it's running David Greenman's modified version of wu-ftpd, which is pretty amazing for that he could squeeze that kind of performance out of it.
This is great, I run a dualboot 800mhz duron box with an asus GF3 and 512 Megs of pc133. Win98se and RedHat 7.1 ( with 2.4.3-12 kernel )
I ran the win32 Test ( with det 4 drivers ) at 1024x768 and 16bit textures. I was getting frame rates in the range of 9 to 32
I ran the linux Test ( with det 3 drivers ) at 1280 x 1024 and 32bit textures. I wasn't getting any frame rate below 45.
I'm going to pin this one up as a victory for linux games. When Wolf comes out, I am going to buy the linux version even if I need to wait for a while. Is anyone else having the same types of results from the two tests?
Math is like sex. People who get it are popular in class, people who don't are not.
I see a version for Windows and a version for Linux/x86, but no version for MAC or LinuxPPC. Curious.
I submitted an article about the Mac OS X version last week. Big deal if there is a Linux version. The point that makes my post "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." is that I quoted Graeme Devine. The Mac OS X version is three times the framerate as that of the Windows version on the _same MHz machine._
OF course, since it wasn't about linux, it got rejected.
Idiots.
It works fine with Wine release 20010824!
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Hypermedia, virtual worlds, human interface, truth, beauty.
But if you're suggesting that I run Windows all the time, then I'd rather "waste" my time playing with Linux. I'm all for the right tool for the job. I'm just not sure what job Windows is right for. Secretarial work, maybe. Whatever it is... I can't take Windows. You don't learn very much trying to get Explorer not to crash.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.