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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. Hooray by Shinglor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now you can have the eye candy of Quake 2 with the speed of Doom 3!

  2. Re:0.9.2 version released by FFFish · · Score: 4, Funny

    German effort, eh?

    I guess that's why they didn't port Wolfenstein.

    [FFFish waves good bye to his karma...]

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  3. Re:Java != Slow by macrom · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've only recently started doing heaving Java programming

    I hear ya, man. I did Java programming once and it made me heave.

    :^)

  4. Turtle language by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sure, straight C is faster, but Java isn't the turtle everyone makes it out to be.

    No, that is Logo.

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