Gentoo Games

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Posted by michael on Friday May 16, 2003 @02:04AM from the compile-your-own dept.

TheSurfer writes "Today, Gentoo announced the creation of Gentoo Games, 'a gaming technology company created to deliver innovative Linux-based game technologies to the public'. They also released a GameCD with the full version of America's Army. For more information, see the threads in the forums here and here."

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Games on Linux by flokemon · 2003-05-16 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

There's just nothing as good as the BSD game collection :)
*goes for another round of mille bornes*
1. Re:Games on Linux by hazyshadeofwinter · 2003-05-16 08:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > It's the American Way. (The American Way apparently consists of lots of violence along with minimal sex.;)
  
  And which country's way involves minimum violence and maximum sex? I may have travel plans...
  
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2. Re:Games on Linux by buck_wild · 2003-05-16 10:18 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I can speak for Amsterdam.
  
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The first /.-proof website? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 02:13 · Score: 1, Funny

It's not like their server has to work hard to send out that page...
1. Re:The first /.-proof website? by stratjakt · 2003-05-16 02:31 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No, like a true linux website, the image is stored in multiple pieces in a MySQL database, and is dynamically created by a 400 line PHP script every time you hit it.
  
  Because for some reason linux folks can't bring themselves to using static content.
  
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But Gentoo? by Hatta · 2003-05-16 02:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Gentoo is great, but I don't particularly care to 'emerge ut2006' and wait 6 hours while it compiles. ;)

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1. Re:But Gentoo? by Realistic_Dragon · 2003-05-16 03:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Just 6 hours to reach into the future and compile UT2006? Hell, where do I sign up!
  
  Perhaps I can download other classics from the distant future, like Doom 4, Red Alert 7 and Duke Nukem Forever...
  
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2. Re:But Gentoo? by Binestar · 2003-05-16 03:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Doom 4? No problem, our "Way-Forward Machine" will handle that.
  
  Red Alert 7? Childs Play, the "Way-Forward Machine" has that too.
  
  Duke Nukem Forever? Sorry, we're still waiting ourselves...
  
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3. Re:But Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 04:24 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  There is no luck involved in having an nVidia card. You see, they sell them in these things called stores. I also hear that you can buy them online.
Re:America's Army by fobbman · 2003-05-16 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Totally agree. I've had a problem with the lack of reality in games ever since that giant ape took my girlfriend captive and started rolling barrels at me.
Mirror in case of slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Gentoo Games, Inc.</title> </head> <body> <center> <img border="0" src="gentoogames.png"> </center> </body> </html>
But you miss the point... by nastro · 2003-05-16 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Which, of course, is:

Yrma Eht Nioj!

All that game needs is belly dancers to sing it ad nauseum.
1. Re:But you miss the point... by His+Nastiness · 2003-05-16 02:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Strangely, after reading this post, I REALLY want to join the AMRY! Hmmmmm....what the hell is the amry?
Re:The description is very vague by Dark+Lord+Seth · 2003-05-16 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Are they planning to aggressively port popular games to Linux?

How the hell does one port "aggresively"? Like this?

Programmer: COMPILE!!! COMPILE YOU WHORE!!! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I WILL MAKE DUKE3D RUN ON LINUX, YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF INTEL SHIT!!! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR PROCESSOR OUT AND PISS ALL OVER YOUR CHIPSET IF YOU DON'T COMPILE SUCCESFULLY THIS TIME!!!

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Re:Give credit where it is due: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 02:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Thanks for noticing :)

Ryan.
Re:gentoo? by gpinzone · 2003-05-16 02:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Gentoo what??

Gesundheit.
Re:The description is very vague by ecc0 · 2003-05-16 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't think GCC has support for that yet. I've tried it several times with different software, no luck.
Re:Give credit where it is due: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 02:58 · Score: 1, Funny

free reyes
completeness by rodolfo.borges · 2003-05-16 03:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Just create a mod for q3a that turns quake console into a shell terminal, make a boot CD with it, and I'll use nothing else. :P
Please, I *need* this mod!
Re:Possible legal problems? by supergiovane · 2003-05-16 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

We hope Nintendo is fair enough to respect the queue.
Yours sincerely,
The SCO Group

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Re:Possible legal problems? by secolactico · 2003-05-16 03:40 · Score: 4, Funny

imagine a 'flat' Gamecube logo ;)

A GameSquare? Ouch! Sorry, couldn't resist. Please mod down accordingly...

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Re:The description is very vague by Punk+Walrus · 2003-05-16 03:58 · Score: 2, Funny

How the hell does one port "aggresively"? Like this?
In my experience, passive agressive works best:
Programmer: Okay, you don't have to compile. It's not like anything you do will impact anyone anyway. You're just Linux, a geek-coder's OS, I understand... no no, I am not angry. Far from it. You are open source, you can do whatEVER you want... and if you don't want to let people play fun games on you, hey, who am I to judge? It's not like I can compile. I am sure that you feel not compiling games is what's in your best interest. [in baby talk] Besides, running X-windows on mommy's little poopsie-woopsie 'puter must have tired iddums out. Yes it did! Oh, you have decided to compile now? Okay... whatever you want, it's not my choice...
Mod that to funny? Don't bother. I really have had sessions like this while compiling my own code. I need to go lie down now...
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Re:The description is very vague by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-16 04:04 · Score: 1, Funny

You have, eh? Parents must have raised you on a healthy diet of modelling glue.
Re:Recruiting Tool by den_erpel · 2003-05-16 04:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Seems to be a cunning ploy of the US Army to indoctrinate todays youth in the fun and games of killing people for your country. How wonderful technology is.

Baldric^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoghran, you wouldn't recognize a cunning ploy^H^H^H^Hplan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'.

I just know this Blackadder quote would come in handy some day :)

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Re:Excellent! by ryanvm · 2003-05-16 04:07 · Score: 3, Funny

He was even providing basic support for total newbs.

Suhweet. All this Perl and Python stuff is killing me. We're finally going to catch up with Microsoft when we get our BASIC interpreter for Linux.
Re:The description is very vague by SomeoneGotMyNick · 2003-05-16 04:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Gamers aren't going to go through the mind numbing process of installing gentoo when they can install windows by pressing enter twice

You mean I never needed to type in that activation code?!? All this time, all I had to do was hit Enter?
Re:Possible legal problems? by CleverNickName · 2003-05-16 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Their logo looks very like the Nintendo Gamecube logo.

Yeah, well, as long as they don't call it "firebird" they should be fine.
Re:eh? by seri+goo · 2003-05-16 10:39 · Score: 2, Funny

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