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Does Linux Have Game?

Posted by michael on from the tuxracer dept.

kwpulliam writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting writeup, discussing the difficulties in bringing games to Linux, and the dilemmas faced by the graphics card developers."

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  1. call me stupid by Cynikal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but wouldn't it be the next logical step to make a source code translator to alter win32 code to something that compiles and runs on linux? i mean, doesnt a compiler take a line of code, useless in itself to the OS, and translate it to something the OS will understand? how hard would it be to make a compiler that takes win32 code and outputs it into something linux can use... offer that compiler to the developers for free, and they'd be nuts not to release a linux version of every game they make if it was as hastle free as a few clicks.

    but im sure if it was as easy as i imagine, it would have already been done.

    1. Re:call me stupid by Cynikal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      ok so someone wanna tell me why a post about comming up with a way to make more games available on linux is off topic when the article is about games on linux?

      or was i supposed to just piss and moan like other people about games not being available, and side step the whole "how can we fix it" angle?

      yeah, i know, -1 troll, but you might as well be modding "my mother just died of cancer" posts +5 funny for all the sense it makes.