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Medal of Honor Linux Beta Released

Posted by simoniker on from the honorable-conversion-deserves-medal dept.

DF5JT writes "Icculus has finally released a preview of his current work on the Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault Linux port, in the form of a Beta executable. He says 'It's playable, but the sound is wonky and has other issues.' You'll need an installed Windows version of the game to start the binary."

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  1. Woah by getitconnected · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now wait. Can I run this over SSH on my Red Hat server? Now that might slow down my hosting clients and they might yell but who cares?? It's Medal of Honor. No GUI, No Problem.

  2. Actually... by cliffy2000 · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's $699!!
    [insert SCO-related joke here, along the lines of "In United States, SCO sues YOU!", but funnier]

    Mmm... gotta love the warmth of my karma burning. Feels good on a cold night.

  3. Because they're idiots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because they rely on the installer to have extracted all the funky resource files from the CD.

    See, game companies love to hide all their data-files in propritary containers and put them on the CDs together with a closed source script-interpreting binary to unpack and install them.

    Nobody knows why they continue to do this even though developer after developer has been burned (see also: Bioware). Our best guess is that they're simply stupid.

    You wouldn't believe the stupidity you can find in the source code when it comes to portability issues, but that's another rant.

  4. Re:Port requires installed Windows version??? by Istealmymusic · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you do not "have" windows, then you would not "have" this game, would you?

    Way "to" go, genius.
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  5. Oh No!! by mojo17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the reasons I boot to Linux is to force myself to stop playing MOHAA and get some real work done. I guess this trick won't work anymore. My existence is doomed.

  6. Really Powerful Stuff. by Mulletproof · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You'll need an installed Windows version of the game to start the binary."

    "That's right! Linux-- Bringing up the ass-end of gaming for over a decade!"

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