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Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced

Posted by Hemos on from the frag-your-friends dept.

SithLordBill writes "Looks like there will be another Quake3 test due in mid-September. This one will include single player bots as well as the Virtual Machine (written to interpret game mods). Anyway, Carmack will be releasing the VM and its modules (as well as the modified compiliers, LCC and q3asm) will be open-source as to give mod developers a head start. Check out his most recent .plan update -- there's a bunch of cool stuff there. "

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  1. Re:... by calc · · Score: 3

    John Carmack is helping out with the open source community quite a lot. He is currently helping write the matrox g200/g400 glx drivers. Also, remember what the first real linux game was? Doom! So please do not complain when companies can not completely open the source to their main source of revenue.

    Thanks John for your support!

    -calc