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Quake2 Engine In Java

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-long-to-shoot-'em-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ok, so the game is old and there was a really poor web version some years back, but some guys at Bytonic Software in Germany have done a full source port of the Quake2 engine from C to Java. It's cross platform, performs just about as fast as C and has room for further improvements according to the developer. Also, there was another game engine that ran Q3 maps that was shown recently at JavaOne. Are first generation Java games that far behind?"

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  1. Re:Java != Slow by zangdesign · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    but Java isn't the turtle everyone makes it out to be.

    Until you run it on a 500-mHz iBook, don't make that claim.

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  2. Re:Java != Slow by An+El+Haqq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe this will lay waste to claims that java is slow, bloated, and sucks.

    Well, it may lay waste to claims that Java is slow, but I think it's hard to argue that it's not bloated. And, of course, Java does suck for rapid prototyping. However, it doesn't suck so much in other contexts.

    Mostly, I just wanted to type the word suck.