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Warp Pipe On Linux, Mac Versions, Future Plans

Posted by simoniker on from the further-down-the-warp-pipe-hole dept.

Thanks to the Warp Pipe website for recent updates announcing downloadable Linux and Mac OS X Alpha/Beta versions of their GameCube tunnelling software, following the release of the Windows Beta a couple of weeks back. The Internet-play enabling LAN hack already works for Kirby Air Ride and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and the Warp Pipe site also notes that "development on our next release is coming along nicely. New versions (Windows, Mac, and Linux) will support [latest LAN-compatible GC title] 1080: Avalanche."

4 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. How does Warp Pipe differ from a basic VPN? by Leknor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does Warp Pipe differ from a basic VPN?

  2. Answer, etc. by the+morgawr · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I see no reason VPN wouldn't work as well. It might even work better, since you don't have to do anything to the packets.

    However, these games were designed for the low latency of a LAN, I'm not seeing how they manage to work all that well over the internet.

    Also isn't warp pipe the idiots who put their stuff on sourceforge and then tried to say it wasn't open source? Or was that some other group?

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  3. Why trust it? by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why trust them? Look how the have acted in the past before you trust this software.

    This isn't a dig against closed source software, as I have quite a few closed source linux apps on my systems that I have paid for.

    Just look at this projects past behavior.

  4. Runs as root? by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have to run the warp pipe as as root. I am not sure how smart that is, after all these are the people who didn't realize that anon cvs allowed anyone access to their code.