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Kingpin client for Linux available

Posted by Hemos on from the download-and-run-a-crime-run dept.

philgross writes "Foul-mouthed ultraviolence is now available for the Linux community with the port of Kingpin." Grab the rpm or the tarball of the file. Almost as much fun as Grand Theft Auto.

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  1. It's here by Tet · · Score: 4

    The correct URL is
    http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=25 4&time=19990716050110.

    --
    "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
  2. 3d Graphics Cards for Linux - a run down by listen · · Score: 3

    3dfx - binary only drivers - optimized for full screen - not particularly great for OpenGL, but get it if you feel like programming for a proprietary API that is guaranteed to die.

    Matrox - Released specs for everything but the on board triangle calculator for the G200. People (including Carmack of id Software fame) are working on a GLX driver. Works reasonably well, and the G400 should be even better. It is currently indirect rendering ( meaning that GLX commands are passed down a standard X communication channel, be it a socket, pipe or mit shared memory) to the X server, which uses a staticly linked Mesa to rasterise this with hardware assistance from the card. Software fallbacks from Mesa will be used if it doesn't support some OpenGL1.2 feature.

    Nvidia - released open source driver, no hard tech info though. strange. based on the GLX work with the G200. Works pretty well, and reasonably fast.
    Will be merged into DRI.

    Permedia 2 - supported in alpha form by MLX, which is like GLX but is non standard so will probably go away (AFAIK). Should be easy to transfer to DRI apparently.

    Precision Insight, funded by Red Hat and SGI, are working on a Direct Rendering Infrastructure(DRI)
    for XFree 4.0. This will allow apps to negotiate with the XServer for a direct channel to the graphics hardware, via Mesa. This will make everyhting faster as it doesn't have to pass through the X commucation channel. I think it will be that stuff for the GFX card is put in a special SHM then DMA'd to the GFX card by the kernel.

    SGI are also going to making an OpenGL ( not mesa) implementation for linux on their Visual Workstations.

  3. what gall by jslag · · Score: 3

    As usual, another dumb game that requires a 3d accelerator card. Does it depend on having mesa installed as well?

    Yeah, how dare they go and release a contemporary (not 2-3 year old) game for linux!?! I thought publishers knew that the sophisticated Linux gaming crowd prefers to wait a few years to make sure that a game is worthwhile, before going to the trouble of downloading it.

    And if they're going to be so rude as to release it, the least they could do is throw in a software renderer that would generate 5-10 fps on one of those prototype K7's that is floating around...