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Tux Vs Clippy - New XBox Game

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-if-it-has-explosions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just submitted on the XBox developers list, a new Xbox game (iso) is available. 'The battle for world dominance is raging. And now, you can play the game on your xbox(tm). Choose alliance with either Tux or Clippy, and finish the mother of all disputes right here and right now. This game is free (as in beer), and will run on any xbox that has been modified for use with the GNU/Linux operating system. The game runs on top of xbox-linux from Sourceforge's xbox-linux project.' The game features include: Industry heroes like CLIPPY, TUX, BIL, STV, RMS, LNS; Battle cries, each unique to the in-game characters, ranging from "Developers! Developers! Developers!" to "GNU!"; Anti aliased alpha-transparency graphics; Explosions." I have no idea if they're serious, and it doesn't matter.

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  1. Link to the ISO by Drunken+Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a link to the ISO. /. away!
    Dl'ing at 100 KB/s now- probably not for long.

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  2. Re:Modified XBox by PineGreen · · Score: 5, Informative

    What does one have to do to modify an XBox to run stuff like this?

    Pretty much any working mod chip would do. The only thing you need is to run unsigned applications. This CD is a live linux distribution that boots Linux on Xbox and starts the game executable... Pretty cool!

  3. Re:Modified XBox by kableh · · Score: 5, Informative

    The homebrew version is a total PITA, a friend tells me. 29 wires from chip to board, and a couple of jumpers.

    A better idea would be to nab one of those new no-solder chips, that just screw in. Better hurry, before M$ sues them into oblivion!

  4. Re:Not all free OS games are lame. by Bartab · · Score: 5, Informative

    Falconseye is a graphical overlay on Nethack, if you want the pretty graphics (and explosions and other sexy stuff)

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  5. NO SOLDERING NECESSARY! by cybercomm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually there is another chip on the market now..it requires no slodiering at all, only patience (you have to arrange some contacts in right order before attaching it...but nothing serious). You can get it for 59$ @ easybuy2000.com... More info here

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  6. Re:Can't be too hard to make it run on a PC by tubabeat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even if he hadn't trademarked it other actors wouldn't be able to call themselves Leonardo di Caprio, because Equity (the actors union) doesn't allow more than one actor with the same stage name. Thats why Michael Caine isn't acting under his real name of Maurice Micklewhite (or something like that!) there was already a Maurice Micklewhite out there!

    I'd guess trademarking his name was more to do with controlling and profiting from the merchandise business for Leo.

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  7. For all you PC users by bug_hunter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a simular game my friend and I made sometime ago for X11
    http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
    It has network code (should probably only be used for LAN), and a large selection of characters.
    The cruel thing is we made the game to get on slashdot more than anything else (the game even includes a slashdot level) and now this comes along. My friend is going to be pissed :)

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