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QWCD Quake Bootable Linux CD Released
Ozh writes "QuakeWorld players will want to try this interesting light Penguin-powered 'live distro' : QWCD provides a ready-to-frag nothing-to-install QuakeWorld installation, playable from the bootable CD. It includes popular Quake clients FuhQuake and MWQCL, comes with an up-to-date Kernel, and every piece of software a player should need (ATI and nVidia drivers, internet connexion and browser, IRC client...). Has Quaking at the office ever been easier?"
I can't wait for pc games to be officially released in LiveCD format. It would definitely give a much needed boost to PC gaming. Making it easier to make games run and not having to configured crazy drivers and such makes it better for all gamers.
Not only that, but having the game be the only thing occupying your system gets rid of a whole heck of a lot of useless overhead and can help to crank up the fps and such on lower powered machines. Lower system requirements means more potential customers. No software dependency means linux and windows users will both be all over it.
Maybe Carmack will make a Doom 3 livecd, we can only hope.
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Don't people like to say how older games are usually more fun than recent ones? Wouldn't that then imply that older games are more valuable then their newer counterparts?
They did do this, they were called custom boot floppies and they were a pain in the neck to setup. I think gaming has become much less of a hassle now that those days are over.
Why not fork?
hrm I guess this quake install that I just did should be impossiable seeing as I have XP:) yes the dos version of quake (the orignal) probly did require dos but their was a quake pack released with the expansions that had winquake and glquake (which runs at > 200 fps on todays machines. Which installs just fine under windows XP