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Animate Quake2 Characters On Your Desktop
Ant points to the new release of amor, called: amorMD2, "Amusing Misuse of Resources -- MD2 edition, which "reads Quake 2
character files and makes them dance around your desktop for your amusement. It will run on any Posix system which has KDE/Qt installed (ie, most Linux distros, BSD's, etc)."
But he may like it better than the unsolvable geometric algorithm I used to slow down the server before.
I just heard the sad news on CNN. Country music legend Waylon Jennings was found dead in his home this morning. Even if you never liked his work, you can appreciate what he did for country music and the TV show "Dukes of Hazzard." Truly a country music icon. He will be missed and I claim FP for him. :(
With all those spoogetards posting to the Malda-PandaHuggles story, the server was too slow to respond to my post request. Therefore, I no longer have the first post. Fuck me.
No replies yet and the site is already down.
Is that a new record?
Casual Games/Downloads
Quake2 is for niggers. Please don't use it. Please use counterstrike instead!
i suppose the next step will be to make the dancing be interactive? before you know it, we'll have a game on our hands!
Now when I try to delete files, they fight back! Damn, now I gotta practice my railgun skillz.
Move over Bargain Buddy... it's Sarge!
AntiChristX
Daring to remain below 5 karma indefinitely
Now if I can only figure out to get it to not only dance the characters around, but also play those "hot" female death sounds.
Hey, its lonely today!
...to do a lap dance Ill be set!
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Here is cached google page.
Yes but every time I try to see it your way, I get a headache.
So can we get rid of 'its funny - laugh' it just insults the entire slashdot readership.
I realise I may be moderated as off topic. I would remind potential moderators of the moderation guidelines.
thank you
Is it the 5th grade dance hall shuffle you did? Or is it the sexy-stripper-on-a-pole-get-your-$20-out style?
Geeks wanna know!
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Seeing as I'd have the most fun having these guys dance around while I'm at work, I must ask when a possible WinPort is available (I can't change my work OS, so don't bother asking why)? I'd read the site, but it got bombed in like 2 seconds of the posting.
Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now? Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The Files are Here if you'd like them.
"Madness and Genius are separated solely by Degrees of Success." -Unknown
I have visions of "Neko" with a railgun....
I am not amused.
I will stick with my girlfriend for Valentine's day.
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mjones/amor/index
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Any chance they would shoot the sheep which are runing around my desktop at the moment ?
I'd rather have any character from Quake 2 on my desktop than Clippy the Paperclip!
Now all my job has to do is ditch Windows 2000 and install Linux...
I'm not afraid of falling, it's the sudden stop at the end that frightens me.
BSD is still alive, it is linux that is dying.
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Yes but every time I try to see it your way, I get a headache.
"It looks like you're trying to frag someone."
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I don't know where the project's homepage has disappeared to, but here's amorMD2's home on Freshmeat.
Must Do 2? Magic Dust 2? or "Mate? Excuse me? Can you think of a good anacronym for our Desktop application? It's the sequel by the way..."
Well, I guess it will finally be time to go out and download those nude models that my friends were talking about. This certainly is incentive enough for me. =P
-- Posting without karma bonus due to the relative lewdness of my comment
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Sounds like a fun replacement for #$%^& clippy (for those unlucky guys that still have to deal with M$ and don't even get to choose _not_ to have that productivity killer installed)
Amusing Misuse of Resources
Could this term also describe the slashdot effect?
I remember playing Quake2 online against a friend of mine and he was using a skin called "Crack Whore" not something I want to see dancing on my screen.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Yeah, I saw this one. Definitely a keeper. Since the site is down, check out the apps.kde.com info page. It has screenshots and all.
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This site will be notified to remove all pictures from Microsoft.
Thank you.
Now if they would only go after the other annoying bits in my computer...
make Linux, not Microsoft. sin(beast) = -0.809016994374947424102293417182819
Ooo. Dancing Q2 models. Soon we'll have to feed them, play with them, punish them, and clean up their little piles of crap, or they'll revolt and take over the desktop.
"I wasn't sniffing your spicy brains."
So I'm thinkin' most of the /. crew went drinkin' to celebrate cmdrtaco's new news?
... well, thinest yet. :)
Cuz the articles got pretty thin after that... and this was
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times. --skunkpussy
Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs, and, from what I understand, Mac OS X is a relative of those.
Lets see, i can lose cpu performance to make things dance on my desktop with this thing...
;-)
or i can lose brain perfomance by maken 'em dance the ol' fashioned way...
Not any more--Clippy is dead! Woohoo!
I get half of a model... The right half is invisible, chopped right down the center.
bummer... Is there a bugzilla.amorMD2.org?
...Microsoft Bob, err...
...I mean Microsoft Office Assistance, ummm...
...I mean Microsoft Agent, uhh...
It really is a shame how much linux users want to make there enviroment more, and more like windows.
Sorry guys, I was playing around with my Apache config -- believe it or not, the site going down for a few minutes had nothing to do with slashdot (actually, I didn't know it was posted there until a few minutes ago).
;)
This Ant guy has been running around the web posting amorMD2 to every software index site around. Thanks, I think
Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs
No. Mac OS X and FreeBSD use completely different GUI architectures. Mac OS X uses Quartz/Aqua, whereas FreeBSD uses X11/KDE. Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.
Will I retire or break 10K?
But Dammit the joke is worth it...
Can anyone post a Mirror of this in a WINDOWS version?
/duck
Razzious Domini
I could be a GREAT KARMA WHORE if I could just shed the few morals I have left.
it was a closed-source Windows program! *rimshot*
Really. I'd like to see something like this for Windows (yeah, I'm a heathen, deal with it).
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.
True, but you can run rootless X alongside Aqua and they coexist quite peacefully. Heck, I'm doing it right now. I don't know about porting amor md2, but since OS X is an honest-to-god BSD it shouldn't be that hard. One of OS X's big selling points is the easy porting of *nix software.
If you're interested in running X11 apps on OS X, check out the XDarwin project. Here's some screenshots. Very cool stuff.
This
hmmmm...
Is submitting spurious bug reports to OS projects considered 'l33t trolling?
--- billg@micrsoft.com
Gee, first time reading below (score: 1), eh mate?
Eagerly awaiting version 2.
Liberate your mind in two clicks or less.
Have a look at this guy:
Home Simpson Doll
and the linux SW to run it!
Now, THATS cool.
These characters could be integrated into a fully 3-d environment, and used as monsters in a game. The player would navigate this environment from a "first-person" perspective, and try to shoot the monsters. Who's with me on this?
I'm the stranger...posting to
Hrm, if this is a Qt app, it should be easy to port to Windows, then you could have your Q2 character fire a rail slug through Clippy whenever he pops up!
just about as soon as you can get the MSOfficeAssistant on KDE. As far as I know, Microsoft still hasn't released Office for Linux, though I could be wrong.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
"Would you like help in fragging someone?
0 Railgun
0 Rocket Launcher
0 Shotgun
0 Please tell me how to turn this feature off"
Forget all your problems with clippy -
someone should port this to win32 with a plugin that lets it fsck up the purple monkey. I know quite a few NetAdmins who would pay to be rid of that damn thing.