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Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 4, 2013 @12:49AM from the play-you-will dept.

hypnosec writes "Activision and Raven Software game studios have open sourced a couple of their games so that people can play as well learn from the code. The gaming companies have released the source code of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast through SourceForge."

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Re:Version control: You're doing it wrong! by rbowen · 2013-04-04 02:16 · Score: 4, Informative

I've been talking with the developer in question this morning, and he'll be putting the code into Git this evening or this weekend, as he has time.

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Re:List of 'fuck' in Jedi Academy by safetyinnumbers · 2013-04-04 03:33 · Score: 5, Informative

\code\game\q_math.cpp(545): i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
That''s part of the Quake III fast inverse square root.