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Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the flawless-victory dept.

inotocracy writes "At John Carmack's Quakecon 2005 keynote he promised that the Quake 3 Arena source code would soon be released-- turns out he wasn't just pulling our leg! Today it was released, weighing in at 5.45mb, it makes for a quick download and a whole lotta fun. Developers, start your compilers!"

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  1. Ha ! Bit late uh. by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Releasing the source several years after the game is released, how lame !

    Take a look at VALVe, at least they released the source of Half-Life 2 before the game was released...



    Ohwait...

  2. My first hack by daserver · · Score: 5, Funny

    #define cdkey_correct 1

  3. Re:porting by ciroknight · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dunno about you, but I'm firing up the compiler on my toaster just as soon as I get home.

    --
    "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
  4. Re:What can be done with it? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I see that you're trying to write a letter. Would you like me to..."

    baaa-WHOOOM!

    CLIPPY has been killed with a RAILGUN!

  5. Gotta love grep by zeno921 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Results of `grep -ri fuck *':

    1. //NOW close the fucking brush!!
    2. i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
    3. // fuck, don't have a clean cut, we'll overflow
    4. // since the cmd formatting can fuckup (amount of spaces), using a dumb step by step parsing
    5. // fuck, don't have a clean cut, we'll overflow
    6. // vm fuckage
    7. // vm fuckage
    8. //FIXME: this is a fucking mess
    9. Note: Unix CR/LF in *.dsw/*.dsp fucks up MSVC++.
    10. How the fuck did this happen?
    11. some files, and between their revisions and ours we fuck this up.
    12. break; // dragged backwards or fucked up
    13. // FIXME: this code is a TOTAL clusterfuck
    14. {"rem", "Less than half a fucking man."},
    15. {"rem", "You're fucking dumb! Suck it down."},
    16. // cleaning up after merging and thinks badly fucked up
    17. this could fuck up if you have only part of a complex entity selected...
    18. // FIXME: this bend painting code needs to be rolled up significantly as it is a cluster fuck right now