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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..."
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
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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