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Tux Vs Clippy - New XBox Game
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.
Or can it? I want this on my desktop.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
This is quite possibly the nerdiest thing I have ever heard of. Dorkahedrons unite!
He could whip all their asses... and would do it happily no less!
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
What does one have to do to modify an XBox to run stuff like this?
that the penquin is shooting X-Box logos to destroy Clippy. It should be shooting copies of Outlook around if it wants to cause some damage.
So, anyone got some better links? The one provided is pretty slim on details.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Here's a link to the ISO. /. away!
Dl'ing at 100 KB/s now- probably not for long.
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
As usual, the best games are only released on a console...
Hate me!
This post is in anticipation of all the Tux Racer flames etc....so for the nay sayers who mock OS games, I invite you to try NetHack.
If you've never played this game before you will notice that the graphics are a bit...dated...but just try it for a few hours. You might very be surprised.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
If you press down-left-down-right and then press X three times rapidly, clippy will grow to ten times his normal size and say:
"IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE WRITING A LETTER!"
Tux will then explode into tiny little fragments.
Am I a hipster-doofus?
Can I get the Mozilla lizard versus Netscape Lizard versus rotating Earth from I.E. versus AOL spinner in a WWF smack down limited edition?
grep >= ! == $your
Is xbox-linux binary compatible with Linux on a standard x86 pc? I guess I'll mount the iso loopback and see, as soon as the damn thing finishes downloading...
Arrraarrrrahhhh!!!!
Developers developers developers developers
sig.
Not only have they created an unauthorized X box game. They've done so using Microsoft's mascot.
I wonder how many minutes until the cease and desist letter.
If you choose to paly as Clippy, does it tell you:
"Are you SURE you want to play as Clippy"?
surely that'll give clippy home ground advantage, and where's clippys motercycle.....? maybe clippy is the sort of thing linux is lacking, an animated tux that will on click do something pointless and unnecessary and waste some nice proc cycles. i miss clippy in open office..... do you think he'd run independantly uisng wine? anyway, tux would kick clippys ass, cos he's got the power of free software
dybia felly dwi a hampster (i think therefore i am a hampster)
How is the hacking on the new xbox going? I wouldnt mind to get on just to put linux on it.
I didn't use the preview button, so get over it!!!!
Mike
ok. no offense to the game writers (it looks like a cool game), but if I so much as glimse a clippy then my blood pressure rises, and I see quite clearly how someone can suddenly turn into a psychopathic killer. Which may help me playing the game of course, but then again, I might finally lose it. :)
Nevrar
Would this game work if you did? Do you need MS dev tools, or what? Slashdot wants to know.
If it's a one-time cost, I bet the funds could be raised to do it. There must be a way to drive a truck through the Xbox business model with this sort of think.
By the way, I think this is very cool, but I don't have or want an Xbox, so I don't care that much.
Would you like some help with that?
Does anybody else find it strange that there is so much devopement of GNU/Linux software/mods for the Microsoft X-box?
I tried playing the RMS character, but I couldn't figure out if 'Escape-Ctrl-Shift-S Ctrl-Alt-Escape-T' meant "Shoot Target" or "Highlight Region and Step-on Toe".
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
nuff said. And with TV out I might add.
Theo deRaadt? Yay, I know why he isn't in.
He's biking and doing other physical stuff all day
when other people sleep, thus he's fitter than the
rest (RMS stumbling over his beard, or TUX just
fatly waddling around, waiting febblemindedly(sp?)
grinning for the daemon's fork to impale him.
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And
Woohoo, not much longer till Microsoft pulls out of the console industry that they're destroying hand over fist. TechTV interviewed the marketing director the other day, they are losing $150 per XBox sold, AND they need people to buy over *10* XBox games before a single system becomes profitable for MicroSoft. Can you say DOOMED? Haha..
I hope this is the easier port. Since it runs in Linux on the Xbox, does that make a native Linux port easier than the Windows port? I don't game much, but I need something after I get bored with xbill.
Actually there is another chip on the market now..it requires no slodiering at all, only patience (you have to arrange some contacts in right order before attaching it...but nothing serious). You can get it for 59$ @ easybuy2000.com... More info here
Live for the present, learn from the past, and dream of the future!
Yeah, based on Microsoft's cash position, they can only lose money on the XBox for roughly 1000 more years, before they'll be forced to pull the plug.
Is here: http://mirror.emerus.com/tux_vs_clippy_021006.iso
/me cringes.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
"then there will be an unauthorized mirror to get the game ;)
after 'official' site goes down"
That or somone will come out with a P2P client for the X-Box. =]
Here's a mirror.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
Only problem is it will released on Mac 6 months later with no multiplayer or level editing capabilities. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Finally all the MS haters will have another game to play, I would guess that they were getting pretty tired of xBill.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
No, they are both mallardjusted.
ed(1) is the standard editor.
This sig no verb.
I think it shows that the community knows how to have fun and laugh at itself. This is a good thing. Coolness is not all about flashy looks and high frame rates. Besides, I'm sure these things can be improved. Is it free source as well as being freely available?
Who mediates your information?
We need the playstation version for us who are so ardent against MS that we won't by an XBox!
-- Many men would appreciate a woman's mind more if they could fondle it
<i>I mean, this game is pretty poor if you need to bring it out on the xbox.</i>
..." I see, the less I want to take the linux "community" seriously. Face it: you're (personally) a fringe element. Nobody's listening to you, and for good reason: you don't matter.
Your idiotic arguments do more to belittle the linux community than silly games ever will. The more of this useless "Nobody will take linux seriously unless
Furthermore, industry <b>does</b> take the linux community seriously. MS has publicly admitted that Linux is it's biggest competitor. Larger and larger installations are going on around the world (just search slashdot).
There's nothing belittling about a silly game. Windows has it's share of silly games. There was a fucking flight simulator in MS Excel, for logic's sake. Is that silly? Does that discredit Microsoft? Hellshit no.
The real linux community, the developers, is not immature. The only immature ones are the "community" that tries to associate itself with linux by spouting the benefits of open-source and free software and unix and whateverthefuck else. These people are just as ignorant and incoherent as the people they claim to be better than.
In conclusion, shut up you dickfaced assgoblin.
http://saveie6.com/
Some of those names are obvious, but who are STV and LNS? (and should BIL have 2 Ls, or is that yet another name I don't know?)
I hope i can put some life into it by posting here
The game!
It looks lame and silly to begin with, and you play a few rounds with a casual "Oh what's the harm" shrug - and before you know it, sunlight makes you blink, your girlfriend has dumped you, you have no friends, no job, no life, and you're gibbering in your sleep about invisible stalkers and the horror of Demogorgon.
When you have dreams in ascii (I speak from experience), with a solitary "@" surrounded by h and & and D and L and you're running low on your ! and / and ?, and you wake up in a cold sweat, you'll realize it's not worth it. If it were simply the best strategy / role playing game there was, that would be one thing, but Nethack is an addiction.
"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."
I can't wait till the fallout from this game shows up on userfriendly.org.
That's the sad thing, they just recorded a bloody profit again. I suppose that's the advantage of using multiple industries to float your company. Oh and the $40 Billion wouldn't be too bad either ;)
I honestly don't think that they're losing yet, I mean they just bought Rare, plus the exclusive deals with PC game makers (e.g. Epic), their XBOX live service - let's face it they're spending $2 Billion on it. They're almost paying you to take them, and that's all they care about. They just want an installed user base which they can use.
That's the point - It is mainly a PC inside, that's why it has so many oppertunities for modding, such as this Linux project on it now.
Its more of the point then anything else. I have enough PCs.
I didn't use the preview button, so get over it!!!!
Mike
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.
Note to the people who think this is plain microsoft bashing: it is not. This game is totally symmetrical, there is no advantage of playing tux over playing clippy, and it pokes fun at both sides
Isn't the fact that you have to run linux on the Xbox somewhat of a bash? Or is it equivilent because you are using MS hardware and Linux O/S?
The programmers *must* have put some anti-MS easter eggs in there though, how could they resist?
Does clippy have the patented MS "Blue Screen of Death" attack? - phorm
if you go here: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870, 2882328,00.html
you'll see that microsoft has already been hard at work to kill any chance of homebrew games for their system.. heh, okay okay, just mod-chips
How the hell did it get modded up?
I doubt Ballmer is the type of guy to blow money on the XBox and not make any back. ...though it might be just me.
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
I know MS is losing money on the X-Box, but then again, their $40 billion rainy day fund (which is 10 times that of many US states' rainy day funds), is very useful to write off any losses. But then again, maybe the X-box is just MS's beta period for their next big project - complete total control of your living room. Maybe.
Isn't it kind of ironic that the same company we all love to hate is benefitting from increased sales of customers wanting to run Linux on the Xbox.
So someone can now kill clippy by paying Microsoft for their hardware to run the game.
All that aside, game sounds cool. Rock on.
This is October... You were supposed to post that on April 1st :)
Is that....Ballmer's head? Well, that explains where all of his quotes came from...
Upgrade your grey matter, cause one day it may matter
Yeah, but SEGA was in a lot worse financial shape than Microsoft has been since, oh, say 1982.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
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
It's turtles all the way down.
Maybe in the US - but in a lot of countries the Xbox is 1.5-3 times cheaper than an equivalent PC depending on what parts of a PC are the most interesting for your needs.
it's in my head
Well the point is that once you get the XBox to do normal PC things, what you have is a really cheap multimedia PC. So it kinda makes sense.
Or send hair dye/sunglasses/salon manual to two of the three guys, asking them to make it easier for you...
An AC wrote:
> The Nintendo GameCube is easily the most powerful
> gaming console available for homes.
Well, if it isn't now, it should be come October 29th. That's when Godzilla will be lending his sizable nuclear power to the platform.
If you have a GC and don't want to mess with mod chips, you can still pit Microsoft vs. Linux (and destroy a few cities in your spare time). Get "Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee".
On the one side, we have the one true king:
Godzilla 2000, King of Monsters, Champion of the Mac, Open Source, and My Custom OS (Linux, see "Godzilla X Megagiras"). He may hate us humans, but dammit, this is his world and he will not tolerate any rival to his crown!
On the other, we have the challenger:
Orga (aka Millenium, aka Microsoft), the All Embracing and Extending, All Assimilating, Controller of All Systems, Evil Alien! He's been asleep for thousands of years, woke up cranky, wants to make a home for himself (and rule it all, natch), and wants Godzilla's body and his crown in the worst way possible!
In the movie ("Godzilla 2000 Millenium") Godzilla won, but in the game, it is up to you.
"Godzilla's coming"
Io, "Godzilla 2000" (US version dialog)
G Countdown: 22 days (www.godzillaoncube.com)
If you don't have an Xbox and want to fight out the battle for world dominance, just get xbill!
They lose 150$ per XBox? So they're selling XBoxes for less than it costs or what? In this case, this procedure has a juridical name, I think it's ``dumping'' but not sure.
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Woah! I didn't eve n know I had this installed on my machine. :)
Damn redhat's menu's suck.
I am now very amused
Life is too short to proofread.
the horror of Demogorgon.
Is there a Repugorgon to make the pair?
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
They tried. It was called Indrema.
Oh, wait, they failed, while Microsoft actually put hardware in my living room... silly me for betting on MS seeing this through.