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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.
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?
As usual, the best games are only released on a console...
Hate me!
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!
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 >= ! == $your
The homebrew version is a total PITA, a friend tells me. 29 wires from chip to board, and a couple of jumpers.
A better idea would be to nab one of those new no-solder chips, that just screw in. Better hurry, before M$ sues them into oblivion!
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"?
Would you like some help with that?
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."
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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- Download the iso
- mount -t iso9660 -o loop tux_vs_clippy_021006.iso
/mnt/loop
- mount -t iso9660 -o loop
/mnt/loop/rootfs /mnt/loop2
- cp -r
/mnt/loop2/usr/local/xgame /usr/local
- export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/xgame/lib/xgame
- chmod 777
/usr/local/xgame/run/log (or run it as root, but that's not really a good idea)
- /usr/local/xgame/bin/xgame
You're on your own after that point, sorry.Would you really want to? I mean, this game is pretty poor if you need to bring it out on the xbox. I mean MS are already annoyed about it being chipped/linux'd. But what do we do? Instead of making ourselves look mature and putting out a decent game, we have to bring out silly games like this that give the whole linux scene some very bad light. Now if the game tuxracer was made to run a decent frame rate on the xbox then great, but this game is just another 'wait until we grow up .. we hate m$... we are leet..'
Stuff like this really shows the immaturity of some of the linux community.
Lone Ranger (pressing his ear to the ground):
Kemosabe:
While you have a good point about the merits of this game, your attitude is one the main reasons that corporations such as MS have problems dealing with "The Linux Community". The community is not a single entity with a central steering committee. In other words, we did not release this game.
And besides, do you really think that Linux users are the only ones to release games displaying poor taste or immature humour? What about all the really silly Flash games (or whatever they are) that crapflood mailboxes the world over, like the Frog in a blender game? Do you believe that anyone really thinks that those games are released by "The Windows Community"? If not, then why would anyone think that the Tux Vs Clippy game is release by the Linux community?
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
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."