Posted by
michael
on from the chopping-off-heads dept.
nicku writes: "According to this email to retailers that was leaked, LokiGames is closing on January 31. I'm sad to see them go, I own 3 of their excellent ports..."
Re:This is what happens....
by
Ramadog
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· Score: 1, Redundant
When new games here cost $90 - $100 and I have never seen any titles that I want for linux why buy them?
I would not call stingy not wanting to pay good money for unwanted games.
Dosent fit all. Wholly open source and popular-commercial-gaming just dont seem to go together.
Carmack is right, Linux gaming isnt a viable market. As asthetically displeasing as it is to the faithfull crowd, Windows holds the market on the gaming market. Hopefully this will accelerate the development going on in WINE and other API abstraction layers out there, so one day we can run most any Windows game reliably on Linux. That will be better IMO than Loki (or another company) scrabbling to port a subset of Win games to Linux, after the fact.
It is just plain more efficient for all involved, after all.
-- Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.-John von Neumann
Re:opensourcing everything
by
alsta
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· Score: 1, Redundant
They won't. The reason they won't is because they don't own the rights to the games which they have ported. It's not their source code to do with as they please.
Microsoft releases source code to select customers which it deems may need it. But just because you have somebody else's source code doesn't mean it's open source.
Sorry.
-- Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. -Ayn Rand
Re:Use operating systems for what they're good for
by
HanzoSan
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· Score: 1, Redundant
Actually, PCs werent designed for games so lets all head back to the consoles
-- If you use Linux, please help development ofAutopac
Re:I'm glad they are gone.
by
HanzoSan
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· Score: 1, Redundant
Well Starcraft is alittle slow right now but they just completed optimization for 2d and it should be 100 percent normal speed in the next release.
Sound is also not 100 percent, it literally was in slow motion.
While games arent optimized, I believe they can get to about 80-90 percent of the Windows version and in some case run better than the windows version.
Right now we need to make a choice, do you want slightly slower but working games in linux, or no games in linux?
-- If you use Linux, please help development ofAutopac
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When new games here cost $90 - $100 and I have never seen any titles that I want for linux why buy them? I would not call stingy not wanting to pay good money for unwanted games.
Dosent fit all. Wholly open source and popular-commercial-gaming just dont seem to go together.
Carmack is right, Linux gaming isnt a viable market. As asthetically displeasing as it is to the faithfull crowd, Windows holds the market on the gaming market. Hopefully this will accelerate the development going on in WINE and other API abstraction layers out there, so one day we can run most any Windows game reliably on Linux. That will be better IMO than Loki (or another company) scrabbling to port a subset of Win games to Linux, after the fact.
It is just plain more efficient for all involved, after all.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.-John von Neumann
They won't. The reason they won't is because they don't own the rights to the games which they have ported. It's not their source code to do with as they please.
Microsoft releases source code to select customers which it deems may need it. But just because you have somebody else's source code doesn't mean it's open source.
Sorry.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. -Ayn Rand
Actually, PCs werent designed for games so lets all head back to the consoles
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Well Starcraft is alittle slow right now but they just completed optimization for 2d and it should be 100 percent normal speed in the next release.
Sound is also not 100 percent, it literally was in slow motion.
While games arent optimized, I believe they can get to about 80-90 percent of the Windows version and in some case run better than the windows version.
Right now we need to make a choice, do you want slightly slower but working games in linux, or no games in linux?
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac