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Java Technology Demo Showcases Quake

Posted by simoniker on from the earth-shaking-or-cereally-boring? dept.

solarisguy writes "I saw earlier today on JavaGaming.org that Reality Interactive released a non-playable demo of Quake in Windows or Linux flavors, implemented entirely in Java. It runs natively on Linux, 1280x1024 at 60fps on my box with around 65% cpu. Could this be the future of games on Linux?" This ties in neatly to our recent posting on Sun promoting Java for higher-end games development.

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  1. Quake is GPL. Where is the source? by molo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Quake engine is GPLed. I imagine they ported it to Java for this 'technology demo' .. So what I want to know is, where is the source?

    -molo

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