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Scorched3D Takes Classic Series Crossplatform

Posted by simoniker on from the artillery-elevation-never-gets-old dept.

Dave_B93 writes "Scorched3d (a Scorched Earth clone that features a 3D Environment, plus LAN and Internet play) has just released an update, to Build 35. It's now cross-platform (Win32, Linux, Solaris), and includes Server side bots, batteries, fuel, napalm, sand hogs, diggers and leapfrogs in addition to all the previous weapons. It's also been open-sourced under the GPL. You can find the SourceForge project here (Scorched3d was mentioned previously in this article.)"

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  1. Re:Why Gnome by AndyBusch · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll grant that sometimes people link to the GNOME libraries when they don't need to (e.g. grip only uses a couple calls from GNOME libs). But, it's not like you have to *run* the environment to use programs like this. I run straight Sawfish, but use GNOME apps all the time, just having the libraries and whatnot installed.

    I have a larger problem with the odd KDE app I want to run, as they often start up the session management, and all sorts of odds and ends that slow me down.

  2. game over by darkmayo · · Score: 4, Funny



    90degree + full power + deaths head = friends who are going to slug you in the arm for killing everyone.

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    "I am a kernel in the linux army"
  3. Re:This is fantastic news by Jouni · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Scorched Earth was amazing, I loved it so much that I wrote a shareware tribute for it on the Palm OS some three years ago. :-)

    Sure, mine was just black and white, but at least it beat playing snake on the cell phone...

    Jouni

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    Jouni Mannonen | Game Designer, Consultant
  4. Full version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A bit offtopic, but does anyone know where you can get the *full* version of scorched earth 1.5? I know you can get the shareware version..but I want to be able to use the tank that shoots 3 missiles!

  5. Very nice! by madmaxx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Holy crap batman, it's scorched earth ... but in 3d. All of the old weapons are there, as is the collab play. It even plays like the old game, mostly. Now I have to convince some ppl to install tonight, and I'll kick their collective asses.

    I remember looking at this project a year ago, and it was closed (afair), and not very far along. But now ...

    It relies on 3d accell (read binary NV drivers for X folk), WxWindows, and SDL, but it builds on my two recent systems fine. It runs well at 1280x1024@24 on my P3-667 + NV G4mx.

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    mx