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Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming
An article on CNet questions the viability of using games as part of a strategy to increase Linux adoption. It points out a blog post by Andrew Min which suggests:
"... Linux companies also need to start paying attention to the open source gaming community. Why? It's lacking. However, gamers can get excited about free games. They just have to be up to par with commercial games. The problem is, commercial companies pay hundreds of employees to build a game for several years, while many competing gaming projects only last several years before the developer moves on. It's time for open source developers to start getting paid for their jobs. Who better to pay them than the companies that benefit most?"
but not as interesting as deep dicking my booty buddy. But feel free to sit around, pulling your puds white you talk about a fucking operating system 99% of the world doesn't care about.
I am 31. I got my first (Dad's) computer, a Commodore 64 in 1982 and then a Compaq Portable in 1983. I first started connecting to BBS's and then to run my own BBS. I _am_ a hard-core gamer.
Now I play Eve-Online, and am involved in stackless development and clustering solutions for the masses. Don't get me wrong, I don't play WoW, Everquest, and other cheap and easily created crap that only a couple thousand can play at a time together - but the kids today don't care about being able to play with their friends and neighbors! Not like we used to care.
Get off my LAAAAaaaWWWWWWWWWWnnn!
I'm a bit young to have first-hand experience writing DOS games, but I've talked with a few people who have. Writing DOS games was a pain because you had to write your own drivers for everything. That's why older installers card whether you had an SB16 or a Roland something-or-other or Disney's craptacular card - DOS provided no support.
You idiot. That's because the operating system didn't have any support for something as idiotic as sound or relatively advanced graphics.
That just shows how limited the early operating systems were!
With open source systems, you don't have to have any kind of secret knowledge or code to produce to an amazingly flexible target.
Also, please at least try to have some information straight. 3D sound (and even more in graphics) has been around a LOT longer than you'd think. Creative, Roland, Turtle Beach, or other hardware based sound platforms were behind the times even if they did it first. Just look up GEnie and CyberStrike, opened in February 1993, and had 3D sound soon after. As soon as any kind of idiotic and insipid hardware was there, people were capitalizing on it almost from the first.
btw: The guy that wrote the sound routines for CyberStrike also did the same in Syndicate. I hung out with him quite a bit at the time, he was awesomely knowledgeable regarding sound design and programming in general.
Don't compare with Vista.
It's a broken OS.
The writeup is pretty funny... headline makes you think it's about linux adoption, but then it goes all commie pinko... Give me money. waaaah....
All of the people making commercial games are making them instead of open source, free games, because they want to get paid. Also, who the hell wants to pay to play crap games like Tux Racer - the pinnacle of open source gaming.....? I mean really......
I know a lot of minor league baseball players who want to get paid like players in the majors... but those underpaid players are in the minors for a reason. Same goes for commercial vs open source games.
What a useless pack-a'-stoats the lamers are. And just when workingmans *nix had driven Debiolian and Slackmolian coderz to buugerbuuger.land ICE-CAVES. It took a decade! Linux is now just about ready to do a mans-work every day. But, now lamrs arise ... like stinky living_dead without the transit coin stuck up their lifeless buttz. Gawdsakes keep them lamers on WinBlow$ where their IQs match system UpTime in seconds. 51 ... 52 ... 53 ...