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Scott Draeker Interview About Loki's Demise

Posted by timothy on from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "News forge is running an interview With lokigames president Scott Draeker. Looks like the leaked email wasn't a hoax after all. A very sad day for Linux. AOL? Redhat? IBM? someone please help these guys."

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  1. No Mac gaming companies? by Dephex+Twin · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you want a perfect example of the difference, just look at Mac gaming. There are many games available for the Mac put out by several great Mac porting companies. But no one develops new games for the Mac.
    What about Ambrosia Software?

    mark
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    If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
    1. Re:No Mac gaming companies? by beerits · · Score: 2, Informative

      Or Pangeasoft

  2. Re:What about IP concerns? by MisterBlister · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are talking about support products..Namely the Loki installer, I'd guess since the majority of Loki's APIs and such are already Open (SDL, OpenAL). Of course they can't release the source to the games they ported, but they can release a lot of the Linux-specific framework they set up to port those games in the first place.

  3. Loki discounts. by PrimeNumber · · Score: 2, Informative

    Draeker: We've been working with our resellers to make sure they have adequate supplies of products and anticipate they will continue selling Loki products. I don't think there will be any huge discounts right away -- maybe in six months they'll discount whatever is left.

    I think he is mistaken on this one. I bought Loki Heretic II today for $5.00 at Microcenter.

  4. Re:Loki Uninstall tool by MEGASTeP · · Score: 2, Informative

    All the installation / uninstallation infrastructure from Loki always was open-source (GPL). You can still grab all the source code from their CVS repository: http://cvs.lokigames.com/.

    I'm planning to continue supporting the Loki installer, so it probably won't stay a dead project.

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    Stéphane Peter
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  5. Total BS by Vicegrip · · Score: 3, Informative

    I bought three of Loki's titles and NEVER did I need to do any tweaking.

    Alpha Centauri and Kohan being my favorites out of the three.

    And another thing, gaming companies drop like flies all the time. Dynamix, Looking Glass and other big names were no exception. Loki lasted pretty long all considering and did some very good work.

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  6. Re:AOL, IBM, RH by chavo+valdez · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mandrake does have a gaming edition. Mandrake Gaming Edition. It's basically a standard distro with The Sims and TransGaming's Winex, but it could be a step in the right direction for gamers.