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Doom 3 for Linux Released
edawg writes Linuxgames reports that "the Linux edition of Doom 3 has been released by ID Software. Although it didn't ship with a Linux version on the install CD, its still nice to see they release Linux binaries around the same time as their first game patch. Here is Information directly from ID Software."
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.
Seems that you should have taken another example...
Trolling using another account since 2005.
This ought to go a long way towards legitimizing Linux as a gaming platform. It's Doom 3, for god's sake. Hard to get bigger than that. As long as they're able to standardize installation across some of the most popular distros.
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Please forgive my ignorance, but would I have to buy a seperate version for Linux, or does my serial number for the Windows version somehow allow me to download the Linux binary?
Not that this question isn't entirely academic, because my Linux box isn't capable of running Doom 3 anyways, but I am just curious how they are handling this.
-Arthur
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Let's suppose for a moment that your points are true; and that because of Doom/Quake/etc, 100 people have been killed worldwide in events like the one you menton.
Now, let's suppose that Carmack worked for "the US military" instead. He could have developed a new incredible cluster bomb, that was first tested en masse in Iraq and killed 1000s of people.
Never forget the Butterfly effect. You can NEVER predict what your actions may trigger as a result. I'm sure Einstein didn't see it coming when his nuclear research was used to build the nuclear bomb and killed 100,000 people in Japan during WWII.
It's pretty sad that when you say something even slightly critical of linux, you feel the need to defend yourself from the moderators by parading your linux qualifications to prove that your really truly one of the cognoscenti.
(Beowulf Boy, this isn't a criticism of you, but the mentality of moderators)
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
time will tell, and maybe these things will come, but most of the time these things loose steam as the team loses motivation and counts $$$.
you say that like it's a bad thing. ID is a business, not a charity. The economics are probably very simple. The Windows version will likely turn a profit several orders of magnitude larger than a linux version.
If I worked for ID I know which version I would concentrate on.....
id have ALWAYS used OpenGL for the graphics rendering. But they use DirectX for sound on windows, which is what will take time to convert to *nix..
I've heard this said before and wondered why they don't use a combination of SDL/Alsa/OpenGL to keep it cross platform. I've been doing that and have a single code base that compiles to Linux, Windows, and Mac with no nasty piles of #ifdef'ed code.
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That's the way the system works. Say nothing critical of Linux, Acknowledge nothing positive in Windows, and you take your chances when making a comment on OSX. That is of course because you never know which moderator you're going to get. It might be the Apple zealot or it might be the guy who's so sick of Apple zealots that he slams you down for daring to mention it.
..."all your Beowulf clusters in Soviet Russia belong to us for Profit!!!" may be the only truly safe ground in here.
At least with Linux and Windows you know where you stand.
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If it wants to verify the disc is copy protected it can do it during the key validation. Thereafter it should really make no difference.
Besides copy protection is a joke. It takes literally a few hours at most for someone to crack a game - I'm sure Doom 3 is already available over P2P in cracked versions - and I know there are cracks on GameCopyWorld. But I'd rather trust ID to produce a CD-free version that Joe R00t. If
As I see it, copy protection at play time is a pain in the ass, especially as so many games require a key or serial number to play.
Isnt it easier to develop for Linux, and port to windows? This way everything works in Linux, and if it works in Linux it cant be that hard to tie into windows? Easier said than done, sure, but easier than porting from windows to Linux.
Uh, why? Why should Linux to Windows be easier than Windows to Linux?
I'm glad they provide a bittorrent for it, their FTP server has been full for a while!
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I will beleive ATI will release decent drivers when I load the driver on my machine and it works.
X.org V6.8 has been out for how long now, and in pre-release for how long, and yet, ATI does not have a build of their drivers for it. All the major distros have gone to X.org over XFree86, and yet ATI is not supporting the current release of X.org - this would be like them not supporting DirectX 9 for Windows.
Their drivers do not support the tuner subsystem on their cards, nor is it possible to get the GATOS stuff to work with their drivers. Y'know, the tuners that are one of the big differentiators between the ATI cards and the nVidia cards?
In many ways, the only thing worse than no support is support which hath only one buttocks, to paraphrase the Boomer Bible. If you know you will get NO support, you can at least eliminate them from the list of cards you will get. But half-assed support makes you think that, just perhaps, if you give them another chance, they might just support you enough this time - like victim of spousal abuse giving their partner "one more chance because they really do love me, honest!"
It is truly unfortunate - you have the choice of binary-only support from nVidia, binary support from ATI, or source support for old cards.
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Yeah so tell me, why do so many EXTREMELY Linux-critical posts on Slashdot get modded up? Even posts that claim that Linux-critical posts will get modded down, are modded up. You are either very ignorant, or lying.
"(shame on id for yielding to MS and dropping win98 support!)"
Why? Win98 is ancient and deserves to be dropped - the sooner the better.
All it means is that ATI sucks for 3D Linux gaming of any sort. For example, my printer spews out random ASCII characters every time I try to print from it in Windows. That doesn't mean that Windows sucks for printing, it means the printer's driver sucks.
Being closed-source has never stopped NVidia's drivers from being great.
Well, if Linux only has shitty drivers for one brand of cards, that kind of diminishes the suitability of Linux for games. No matter who makes the drivers.
Monkeys. Lots and lots of monkeys with high UIDs. And mod points.
No Doom 3. ZING!
I much prefer going to a big computer retailer and asking for Linux software.
Not because I like paying Electronics Boutique prices, but because it makes them tell the publishers "we're getting requests for Linux software".
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