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Platform Independent Gaming?

Posted by michael on from the pipe-dream dept.

klocwerk writes "At the game developers conference, Sun is releasing a white paper on their new "Java Games Profile." Their ultimate goal? To have one CD you could pop into an Xbox, a PS2, a Windows machine, or a Linux machine, and play the same game on them all. If they get full support for it I can finally get rid of that windows gaming partition!" Sun's got an article on their site describing what they hope to accomplish.

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  1. Re:Why bother? by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative
    And, it has the added bonus of being written in a fast language like C++ and natively compiled.

    When running a game, the main overhead isn't the speed at which the instructions are executed by the CPU, it's drawing the graphics. As long as Java can use hardware acceleration with the video card, the speed of the language hardly even matters. Anyway, JIT Java can get pretty fast if well compiled.

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  2. Check This Out by Enonu · · Score: 5, Informative
    This API absolutely rules: GL4Java

    It works on Linux, Sun, and Win32, and it hauls ass to boot! Quake3 in Java? It's definitely possible!.