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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. who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i'm wondering if there's really that much demand out there to play moh:aa now, since that game was released over a year ago, and i personally haven't heard of any friends playing it lately. insert your diatribe below...

  2. Linux Games Sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if games sales/use for Linux would be greater if the Linux port were released at the same time as the Winodws version. It seems to me many people do not bother with the Linux version or patches because by the time it comes out for Linux they have been playing it in Windows for months and don't feel like moving it over. This was the case for me with NWN.

    If the major games were released for Windows and Linux at the same time though there would never be a need to install on Windows.

  3. Re:Porting games from Windows to Linux by eddy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem seems to be that developers take multi-platform code as an afterthought. "We'll write the windows version and then we'll put some junior dev on porting it".

    Few seem to realize that developing multi-platform from day one is a) not harder, b) shows professionalism and c) is one of the greatest ways to accomplish good bug free code.

    I'm sure Carmack agrees. :-P

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  4. surefire way to get linux into homes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If we're serious about getting linux much more widely adopted, linux needs a killer game that isn't available on windows...

    Just imagine if Doom III was shipped as Linux-Only.

    (hey, one can dream right?)...

    1. Re:surefire way to get linux into homes by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Just imagine if Doom III was shipped as Linux-Only.

      That would do way more to kill Doom III than it would to boost Linux (unless it came with something like Knoppix on the CD, but rebooting is still a pain, and then people wouldn't have to install Linux, which is the point right?)

      Maybe if the Linux port was released like 3 days early, it might make some people try to install Linux just to get the game early, but I hardly think those people would get a good impression. I can hear them now: "KDE? GNOME? XFree86? Partitions? Ext3? ReiserFS? WTF? All I want is to play my Doom III dammit!"

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    2. Re:surefire way to get linux into homes by Peyna · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Just because Linux users install Windows to play certain games doesn't mean that Windows users will install Linux to play certain games.

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  5. Re:If only all Linux ports worked this way by Erwos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, not in the way you're thinking. You need the Windows versions of these games because the Linux port _doesn't_ come with such essentials as sound and texture files. However, if you were to pirate the Windows game and then install the Linux version using those files, it would still work fine. Well, except that you still need the CD-key.

    However, I must add that pirating Windows software for the Linux version of a game is a sure way to kill any future ports of other games to Linux (why port if it _raises_ piracy?). Play it clean - besides, how much is MOHAA now anyways? $20? You're not going to break the bank buying it.

    -Erwos

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