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Wolfenstein Linux Binaries Available
gurb writes: "Acording to Christian Antkow's plan (finger xian@idsoftware.com or see webdog.org) linux binaries for the latest installment of Wolfenstein are out.
Grab it all over at id's ftp server, enjoy!"
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Yes. Finally!!!
Where is Loki?
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I got a mirror of it up...go to:
r un
http://shaz.dhs.org/~joe/wolfmp-linux-1.0.b2.x86.
I look forward to seeing my bandwidth die.
JoeLinux
cool! ;p
the only prob is that I know have to upgrade my hardware
Return To Castle Wolfenstein Linux Binary Released - Tuesday Nov 27 23:30:38 2001 - Updated by Michael
id Software has released the multiplayer Linux binary for Return To Castle Wolfenstein. The announcement was made in Christian Antkow's .plan file. Big ups to Timothee Besset.
The 4.57M download is available at:
ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/wolf/linux/wolfmp -linux-1.0.b2.x86.run.
Disclosure: I am an employee of Activision, Inc.
Here are the install notes:
I never get to karma whore!I really hate Dan Patrick.
- but will it run on Linux?
As if I didn't have enough to do with MGS2, Super Monkey Ball, and $50 dreamcasts with dirt cheap games... now this.
And Final Fantasy X just around the corner...
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Kein Verständniss für die deutsche Sprache... zzz...
"Ich bin ein Binary" muss es heissen...
stay xund ppl...
if you explain what it is I can tell you if I've done it..
Most Linux users have a Windows box for other games, word processing, financial applications, web browsing with IE, and looking at porn, so why not just use that for Wolf too?
Location: http://realityx.net/wolfmp-linux-1.0.b2.x86.run
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\ Christian A Strømmen
when will you learn not to link to ftp url's from slashdot?
Big productivity low down all over the Linux world ! :)
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nico
Nico-Live
Someone? Are they at least planning a single player binary?
This release isn't quite as nice as some of iD's past Linux offerings. First, this release only works for the multiplayer portion of the game. The single player portion is said to be supported in a later release, but who knows how long that will take. Second, you must use either wine or an actual windows installation to install this thing. Apparently it has to do with how the CD was put together, it's just one big EXE from which all the PAK files are extracted. So you must run the windows installer under wine so you can get the PAK files, so you can finally install the Linux binary. Seems like quite a hassle to me, I would really hate to install wine just so I could run one game natively under Linux. Apparently the people at Tuxgames are working on setting up some sort of linux installer. But what options do they really have? The way I see it they could either set up some sort of mini-wine distribution on their installation CD to extract the data from the EXE, or find out the compression scheme that this EXE uses and hack together some native linux program to get the PAK data out. Either way, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
Linux Castle Wolf rocks, but be aware of the following limitations:
1) The current binaries are multiplayer full version only. No single player.
2) The game must be installed under Wine or Windows. Which sucks...
Now for the interesting bit:
Everyone will love you if you fix this piece of software (or make your own) to work with modern Wise Installer archives.
The Wolf3D CD contaisn a 500MB win32 setup.exe file in which the necessary pak files for the linus install go. Thsi is in wise installer format, which is similar to zip with different headers. Coders - if you can work out a way of extracting this archive under Linux, you have my external respect and the love of Linux Gamers everywhere. It should be pretty easy from my research (the software mentioned is non free qmail license source code) for someone with the skills, but I'm still teaching myself Kernighan and Ritchie.
Can you use this to run the demo, or is that single player only? If so, is there any way to demo it under Linux yet?
It iz ze Americaaaaaan !
wouldnt it be lightyears better if they actually usued pure-deutch voice samples ? ( kinda like DOD mod for HL ).
NO, i am NOT in an SS fanclub.
:)
I have to admit I don't know a lot about Loki (I'm not a Linux user), but weren't Loki in very dire conditions business wise not very long ago, that might make working on Wolfenstein not an option for them?
The Lokigames site shows their latest two works as Postal and Heavy Metal FAKK 2 - neither are 'big names', highly sucessful or new releases.
I found another mirror, FTP and HTTP. Enjoy it, 'cause WolfMP on Linux is a real killer - I mean it works very well :) I hope the SP part will be avaiable soon !
u x- 1.0.b2.x86.run
x -1 .0.b2.x86.run
Here's the mirrors :
http://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/rtcw/wolfmp-lin
ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/rtcw/wolfmp-linu
"This release doesn't contain the single player binaries of the game. The menu command to switch to single player is present in the interface, but it is completely inoperant. "
Plus you have to install the bugger on a Win partition.
People who are interested in video games look for video gaming news on "video game based boards". Just because a new update to a video game is released doesn't really warrant it as "breaking news" or "stuff that matters". But still, it gets posted here. And I read it here first. I'm a moderately advid gamer, and I get all my news from slashdot, what does that say?
Go ahead and mod me down, I'm still asleep and am opt to ramble anyhting at this point.
-> you its scheissendreckscheissendreck scheissendreck
It should read something like the following...
Dear Sirs,
I humbly bow down at your feet, for thou hast graced upon we humble followers of the Linux faith, another one of the greatest games of all time.
We of the Linux faith understand that you will be compensated in no way whatsoever for your efforts to provide we few with the pleasure of playing your games, so I must reiterate how greatful we truly are.
Sincerely,
Whiny bitch
P.S. And if you have time, do you think it would be possible for someone to write an installer? But only if you're feeling really generous. If not, that's ok, I'll just use wine to install it, I am an intelligent Linux user afterall, so it's no problem for my whiny ass.
P.P.S. My humble thanks again.
And if they still don't write an installer, you STFU and use wine to install it and thank the Linux Gods that there are people on this earth who do things even when it doesn't help them in any way. And do so quickly before you anger the Linux Gods and the folks at ID for being so unappreciative.
Damn... you'd think people could appreciate things once in a while...
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
'cause I don't plan on downloading, but I'd just like to give a little thanks to id and Raven (didn't Raven develop RTCW?) for being such good supporters of the Linux commmunity. I do believe id is the only game development company in the world that will make a game readily available to Linux users without the game first being a huge hit (although I'm sure RTCW will be a huge hit, at least in sales).
It means a lot that they are this willing to put in the extra effort. Thanks, id.
My sigs always suck.
"There is no market for Linux games, no matter how many posts you see on /."
Hmm. No market even if we ask for it.
how do we win?!?!
Graeme, where are the Mac OS X binaries? :) I took my iBook to the parents' for Thanksgiving and really wanted to play some Wolfenstein on it. Unfortunately, the harddrive on my mother's E-machine didn't have enough free space to install Wolf. :(
I have a website. It's about Macs.
RMS=JUDE
It may suspiciously look like Quake except the monsters will have crudely edited nazi helmets and machine guns.
I can now go out and buy the game :) I wasn't gonna get it until a Linux port was avaiable. I played the multi-player test for a while, which got boring, becuase I played it everynight for a month :)
:)
I have read some people complaining about the installation. Yes, it sucks, but at least they ported it. Durring the initital talks about RTCWS, they said there wouldn't be a Linux port. Not even the current binary download.
Be happy they changed there minds.
If ID Software is saying they just barly broke even on Q3A for Linux, why don't they have both versions on the CD ? Then just have the server browser detect the OS its running on for stats and what not. I think that in it self would help move more people to Linux.
Games on Linux is a large reason why people aren't switching. Loki games has done a *VERY* good job at it so far. There installation program that they GPLed, is being used in some cool places. For example, all Borland products released on Linux use it
If they would only port Everquest to Linux, you would have a swarm of people switching to 100% Linux.
At any rate, thanks ID and (Gray matter is it ?) for the Linux port.
until (succeed) try { again(); }
I bought the Windows version last week and I played so much multiplayer over the weekend that I just about hurled on my monitor.
Yesterday I showed some friends multiplayer RTCW under Linux and for many of them I think it was the first time that they have ever contemplated Linux as a gaming platform.
The game rocks. I'm your humble servant!
i mean, watching thousands of people you dont know
die on tv has got to be hard on a guy, and what
better way to deal with ones problems
than jerking off to queen amidala?
maybe this is why he kept the banner ads up all through the
week. even though every major news network
had no commercials, even MTV. a hell of alot of websites didnt either.
but seeing as how he was passed out on the toilet, i guess
i can understand why he didnt take down the banner ads.
how the fuck can i respect your ass?
you are nothing but an uncle-moderator.
you bastard.
I suspect it might be linked to the fact that RTCW seems to request both the server port (which is normal) and a specific client port (which is rare). Ie- port 27960 on both client and server. This might be interferring with ip masquerading. I'm not sure. Anyone get it going?
I've been playing this game using WineX for days now. With the latest CVS they fixed the .05 second sound delay, and it's a welcome improvement.
Get your ass over to www.transgaming.com, download the source, build and install it, then play one of the best games of the year.
See you in the trenches!
John? Who's John?
Hey everyone,
Do what I did (if you are a RtCW gamer). It takes less than 5 minues, and you will feel good about it.
Go to their web site. Go to the "Contact" page, and send them an email thanking them for their contribution. I know if I was a developer, and I got a few emails saying thanks, it would really be a nice thing. So, say thank-you from the Linux community. They didn't have to do this, they chose to.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
I'm john!
See see!! look at my email address!
I read your suggestion and poured White Zinfadel on my CD. It doesn't work now. Should I have used a red?
Believe me, it wouldn't be the same with German speakers ;-).
Does it run under FreeBSD? It would be nice
to have a native binary, but if not, has anyone
tried it under emulation?
Now you can play it on the road too - Wolf 3D has been ported to the PocketPC!
http://www.pocketgamer.org/archives/00000574.shtml
The binaries for ARM devices will be released tomorrow
Hmmm...
According to various reports, RTCW works in WineX quite well (a 4 out of 5, which means that probably is some *minor* at worst irritants. This is also the same rating as a lot of good games such as Diablo II.) This off of transgaming's site... of course, YMMV.
Karma whorin' since 1999
Header on this story:
Wolfenstein Linux Binaries Available
Posted by michael on 06:11 AM November 29th, 2001
from the chaingun-goodness dept.
From my submission queue:
2001-11-28 21:40:39 Linux Binaries for RTCW available now! (articles,games) (rejected)
...you'd think I'd be used to it by now...
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L-fucking-O-L man. Thats all I gotsta say.
wolfmp-linux
Ben
Work Safe Porn
initital = initial
Be happy they changed there minds. = THEIR, come on now!
barly = barely
There installation program = THEIR!
Now you really should be proud of yourself, all of those mistakes (except for misuse of there) could be considered typos instead of bad spelling.
Sie fucking Sohn eines Weibchens.
We germans love zee german accent.
Us mortals in the UK didnt get the full game until today, and when i did get it so far all ive managed to get to work is this linux multiplayer binaries (windows ones just freeze with grey screen)
> the creators, installing junkbuster or even no longer going to certain
> sites that have ads.
I don't believe I've ever blocked an ad that didn't blink at me first. When my 200mhz K6, a fairly fast machine at the time, was brought to its knees by javing two (2) web pages open at the same time (java disabled), I put in junkbuster. Now it's just habit bo block anything that blinks at me.
hawk