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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)."
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Is that a new record?
Casual Games/Downloads
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.
...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.
Is it the 5th grade dance hall shuffle you did? Or is it the sexy-stripper-on-a-pole-get-your-$20-out style?
Geeks wanna know!
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Seeing as I'd have the most fun having these guys dance around while I'm at work, I must ask when a possible WinPort is available (I can't change my work OS, so don't bother asking why)? I'd read the site, but it got bombed in like 2 seconds of the posting.
Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now? Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The Files are Here if you'd like them.
"Madness and Genius are separated solely by Degrees of Success." -Unknown
I will stick with my girlfriend for Valentine's day.
Any chance they would shoot the sheep which are runing around my desktop at the moment ?
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Yes but every time I try to see it your way, I get a headache.
"It looks like you're trying to frag someone."
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I don't know where the project's homepage has disappeared to, but here's amorMD2's home on Freshmeat.
Well, I guess it will finally be time to go out and download those nude models that my friends were talking about. This certainly is incentive enough for me. =P
-- Posting without karma bonus due to the relative lewdness of my comment
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Sounds like a fun replacement for #$%^& 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)
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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MD2 is the Quake2 model format.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Now if they would only go after the other annoying bits in my computer...
make Linux, not Microsoft. sin(beast) = -0.809016994374947424102293417182819
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
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.
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
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?
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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.