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Duke3d in Linux
Obiwan Kenobi writes "So it took four days, but Duke3d now runs in Linux, courtesy of Icculus.org. Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released. Features include full sound support, hi-res video modes (aka VESA modes for those familiar with DOS), saved games, full screen or windowed viewing, and even the BUILD editor works (to a degree). No mouse, demos, or networking just yet, but the basic gameplay is there and now that the BUILD engine has been ported a win32 version is soon on the horizon."
Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum!
Posting useless rant since 2003.
Basic gameplay is there, but the fun stuff doesn't work...
What doesn't work/known bugs:
* Windows port doesn't exist yet, but is probably just a matter of getting it to compile (the engine itself is already ported).
* Networking/modem/multiplayer at all.
* Resampling of audio is broken, so sometimes duke sounds weird.
* Mouse/joystick input isn't working yet.
* Demos are broken (they are broken in the initial source release, too).
* Probably other stuff. Do NOT consider this stable and complete yet!
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Having two computers on-hand rules too. Now if I could just find the game files...
Interesting case for buying games instead of warez'ing them. In 5 years when the game source is GPL'd, the box with all of the game data will be sitting on your shelf.
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS:
Tough luck. Do NOT contact us with bug reports at this time. Do NOT contact us if you can't get it to build. Do NOT contact us for copies of the game.
Don't you love the support you get with Linux software?
Right, now lets start getting this ported to every system on earth. Duke3d for Dreamcast, PalmOS, and JavaVM everyone!
...but is a Mac OS X port feasible? I know Duke3D used to run on OS9, so whatever mac-specific code it needs is extant. Was that released along with all the x86 stuff?
- CVS to check out the code.
- SDL Libraries for graphics and sound.
- An original Duke Nukem CD to get the configuration files and game data
- A DOS box or DOS emulator to install said CD
- Make and other compile tools to put it all together
I'm missing items 3 and 4. Anybody have a working binary they can put up for download?Unless you have a copy of the CDROM Duke Nuken: Atomic Edition, you can't use this. The shareware version doesn't work.
:(
This leaves me pretty much out in the cold..
"Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released."
Ironically, Duke3d has been running on win32 operative systems since the beginning. The tweaks to get the it working has been around about as long.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
hehehehe double reference jokes are funny.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Most of the conversion I tried back then (VOC to WAV) were rarely done properly, though. The programs I tried seemed to presume my original sampling rate was a multiple of 11025. :/
Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released.
They're probably too busy playing games released this decade.
General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Browser Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Duke of Nukem. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my isp connection has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring Duke to Linux has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the code into the memory systems of this x86 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this boxen safely delivered to the free people running free software. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, ObiWan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to call Microsoft to help me find out why their software isn't functioning right. I'm sure the pricing plans are reasonable.
Duke was fun as hell, anyone else remember "Cases' Ladder" an early online gaming rank ladder? and Kali?? LOL I feel old!
And please.....resist the burning urge to insert some obligatory "Tux" or "Linus" hidden room or some shit in it! Please!
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
a Win32 port HAS been released. Check this thread on the 3drealms forum. It supports all versions of duke (except the shareware), and you don't need to install it, you just need the .grp file and the .cons that were released with the source.
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We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
...right?
3drealms (late apogee) released the source and has a very large mention of this linux port on their frontpage.
The win32 port here was released several hours before the linux port.
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It was with a PC Gamer mag some time last year I think, the only reason I picked up the mag, didn't even read it.
1.3 support will most likely be in CVS soon anyway.
VESA is a standards orginization.
The VESA local bus was one (short lived) standard, as are the VESA 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 compliant display modes.
"VESA display modes" is absolutely correct. Try using google next time you want to sound like a techno whiz kid.
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IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS:
Tough luck. Do NOT contact us with bug reports at this time. Do NOT contact us if you can't get it to build. Do NOT contact us for copies of the game.
People are already grousing about this and saying it's a fault of open source. But the thing is, they probably have a list of their own planned updates/fixes, and accepting a slew of bug-reports from every linux-newbie who wants to run duke3d would just be distracting from (the above) more important things. I expect they'll accept feedback once we're past the current beta-type stage of coding.
I wonder about some of the original duke3d bugs too. Nothing worse than just about fragging somebody in deathmatch only to get munched by a closing door...
let me be the first to say "huh?"
Notice that icculus weren't the ones that posted this to slashdot (or any other major news site). They finished the first stage of the port, got the DOS game to run on Linux using SDL (which the game was not written in) and then were cool enough to allow us to try it out.
Isn't the whole point of releasing the source so that people can dabble with it? It's not like they're releasing Duke3d Retail, they took four days to make a port of it to linux (and they're even trying to port it to windows too if you read their page).
I'm pretty much 100% certain that a Duke3d linux port that they took four days to work on which isn't perfect yet won't turn people off to the linux desktop.
Maybe you should be happy that someone with the talent to port it to linux (and windows) is working on it at all.
remove -Werror... you know that if you quit complaining and hack a little, it goes a long way.
remember the authors' notes that there is no support for this game *unless you contribute code*
SIGERR: laziness exceeds quota
In the current trend of free software, "release early, release often" is actually the thing to do. They don't force anyone to use their code, they just released it.
;)
Plus, one needs some overkill hacker spirit to perform such a feat, it's been only four days since source code was released after all. The kind of people that do such things go for score first, and perfection second, because that's what it takes to endure the lack of sleep
So let's say, good job, wait and see ?
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While it was used for video cards, that has nothing to do with the posible video resolution.
Sorry, you're wrong. One of the VESA standards certainly does define some standard video modes. Vesa 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 defines a set of video modes and the Vesa BIOS Extension (VBE) which provides a standard way to access and use them. VESA modes are are one level up from standard VGA/XGA modes, but offer no accelerated drawing functions (E.g. all you get is a framebuffer, and the VBE which lets you configure that framebuffer).
As another poster pointed out, try using Google next time.
Now if someone would like to port this to OpenGL with the Nvidia XFree86 Drivers now that would be cool. I would never have to boot back into windows to satsify my gaming twitch
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I wunder if the good old nukem 3d cheet codes still werk. Funny thing is i still remember em! :)
God Mode = dncornholio
All Items = dnitems
All guns = dnstuff
C:\earth\humans\del *.m0ronz
Actually, it was done with the BUILD engine, which is at http://www.icculus.org/BUILD/ . Looks like they have several of them working, including both Redneck Rampage and Redneck Rampage Rides Again.
anyone working on a zaurus port yet?
Blah.