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RTCW Single Player Demo & Linux Binaries

Posted by michael on from the into-the-outdoors-with-penguin-and-chaingun dept.

Ant was fastest on the mouse to report that Id Software has a single-player demo and a set of linux binaries available for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Blue's News has some more information and a mirror.

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  1. RTCW 1.1 Patch for windows Released by DeadBugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those like me who have had problems with RTCW 1.0 you can get the Patch Here

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  2. Tux Games by BadBlood · · Score: 5, Informative

    While not yet posted on their website as of 15:07 Eastern Time, www.tuxgames.com will sell RTCW with a linux-based installer.

    This is for those folks who want to show their allegience to Linux gaming by purchasing from a company dedicated to bringing it mainstream and properly tallying Linux sales.

    I have no affiliation, just a friendly notice. :)

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  3. Re:Novelty or highly demanded and used? by psavo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well one reason could be that Linux performs better on P4/2.2GHz than WinXP does. If more games would perform better. the more people would play on Linux ;)

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  4. Re:But where's the Mac version?!?! by m2 · · Score: 4, Informative
    For those of us about to ROCK...

    If you could enter to the FTP site you could note there's an OSX directory there... but since the whole thing is slashdotted, you can't. I'm really sorry. Just be patient and wait a few hours, by then everyone will have stopped clicking the pretty links...

  5. For what it's worth, I'm a Linux gamer by DG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I live in a Windows-free world, so I guess I'm a Linux gamer.

    The downside is that there's not much in the way of games. The upside is that those that are there are pretty good.

    My "game machine" is a P1-233 with a PCI GF-MX200 in it. Plays Q3 just fine. And I've been making my way through the Loki ouvre and having a ball with it.

    I'm almost finished SOF, and then there's Descent 3 waiting in the wings.

    Am I typical of the bleeding-edge, overclocked, 3000 FPS gamer that Windows seems to attract? Hell no. But I AM using Linux as my gaming OS, and I AM having fun with it, and I'm using a machine that's over 5 years old.

    Which is pretty cool, as far as I'm concerned.

    DG

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  6. In case you're wondering... by dnaumov · · Score: 4, Informative

    RCTW wasn't actually developed by ID Software. ID merely "produced" it. RCTW's multiplayer part was developed by Nerve Software and the singleplayer was developed by some other developer who was recently bought by Activision. Can't remember the name though.

  7. Re:But where's the Mac version?!?! by liquidsin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah?!!?!

    why do us mac users always get shafted on games, and instead only get stuff like photoshop and illustrator that work properly, unlike windows that gets broken graphics apps and all the games? what's with that?

    btw, if you want games, get a ps2...much better than a win box ;)

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