I just wanted to say thank you to Epic for acknowledging the Linux community, and spending time on a port that will make alot of people very happy. My peers on/. have overlooked this, in their eagerness to start flame wars, denounce the quality of your games, etc, etc. I think that these things don't matter, I think what's important is that you are going to give us the port we've asked for for so long. I can only hope that in the future you'll repeat this with other games, and perhaps one day your fellow developers will follow the lead of Epic and id. Despite how it may appear from the other comments, your games are very welcome in the Linux community, and you will have my money as long as this becomes a trend. Once again, thank you!
They will not be able to find the airports when there are no lights on, no electricity to power the radios on the ground, or any of these things that electricity provides both in and out of the free world.
I'm fed up with this whole thing, between Ion Storm, Firaxis, G.O.D. and all the other start ups of supposed gaming geniuses that got sick of the corporations they worked for. These guys must get written up and interviewed so many times that they seem to believe they are the most important people on earth and that we care where they are developing their games. Come on, they're just games, it's your JOB, if you're not happy than oh well, it's a JOB. Had Romero and his ilk stayed at their original development houses, they could've created several games by now, and I don't think that any of those games would be significantly worse than the games that they've spent the last three years developing.
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I have a Sony VAIO that i bought for some god unknown reason about a year and a half ago. This was before they went to the cases that were 4 or 5 inches tall (thank god) but still it was pretty slick looking. PROBLEM #1 (three months after purchase) the CD ROM they installed broke, so I had to replace it. I discovered that with the fancy case I had to take the whole thing apart to get it out. So I added the new CD ROM below it and let it sit there.
PROBELM #2 Now that my computer was hideously ugly and mismatched, I kept the door slid up constantly. But the doors and mecahnisms they use on these cases SUCK, so soon the door snapped and no longer slides up, stuck half way looked even tackier, so I had to remove it.
PROBLEM #3 Not enough bays: I bought a CDR a few months later. But there were not enough drive bays with the irremovable CD ROM, so I had to take it apart to get it off, and cut my thumb open pretty good doing it.
PROBLEM #4 I put in the new CDR in the stop slot once i finally got the fancy Sony CD ROM out, and discovered that the front of the Sony was one plastic piece that was attached to the floppy. I had to remove that piece in order to replace the CD ROM, so now my floppy is this ugly piece of black plastic that doesnt match anything. You can also peek into the computer through the area surrounding the floppy due to odd case construction.
OTHER PROBLEMS In addition to this, I spilt soda in the keyboard and had to replace it with a standard Logitech one, which does not match the case either. Compounding the ugly mess is the wheel mouse I replaced the tiny one that came with it. I will never a buy a non-beige case again.. Maybe these cases will allow for better upgrades, but I won't risk it until I can be sure everything looks sexy and sleek together.. You just need to run Enlightenment and no one will look at your ugly case
hz = times per second. Evidently, your mouse only sends to the computer a certain amount of times a second (with serial) by default. This isn't usually a problem, but with the speed of games like quake you might be going at 70 fps while your mouse is only sending 20 times a second, causing a bit of chopiness. I haven't used a USB mouse, but I think you'd have to be REALLY anal to notice the difference I think. Anyways his program makes his serial mouse update as often as a USB mouse.. I read that you can tell the difference if you bind some keys to look up and down, and then compare that to moving your mouse. the keyboard isnt limited like the mouse.. i think it's all horse shit.. just get a good mouse pad and a Logitech:)
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I just wanted to say thank you to Epic for acknowledging the Linux community, and spending time on a port that will make alot of people very happy. My peers on /. have overlooked this, in their eagerness to start flame wars, denounce the quality of your games, etc, etc. I think that these things don't matter, I think what's important is that you are going to give us the port we've asked for for so long. I can only hope that in the future you'll repeat this with other games, and perhaps one day your fellow developers will follow the lead of Epic and id. Despite how it may appear from the other comments, your games are very welcome in the Linux community, and you will have my money as long as this becomes a trend. Once again, thank you!
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They will not be able to find the airports when there are no lights on, no electricity to power the radios on the ground, or any of these things that electricity provides both in and out of the free world.
I'm fed up with this whole thing, between Ion Storm, Firaxis, G.O.D. and all the other start ups of supposed gaming geniuses that got sick of the corporations they worked for. These guys must get written up and interviewed so many times that they seem to believe they are the most important people on earth and that we care where they are developing their games. Come on, they're just games, it's your JOB, if you're not happy than oh well, it's a JOB. Had Romero and his ilk stayed at their original development houses, they could've created several games by now, and I don't think that any of those games would be significantly worse than the games that they've spent the last three years developing.
I have a Sony VAIO that i bought for some god unknown reason about a year and a half ago. This was before they went to the cases that were 4 or 5 inches tall (thank god) but still it was pretty slick looking.
PROBLEM #1 (three months after purchase) the CD ROM they installed broke, so I had to replace it. I discovered that with the fancy case I had to take the whole thing apart to get it out. So I added the new CD ROM below it and let it sit there.
PROBELM #2
Now that my computer was hideously ugly and mismatched, I kept the door slid up constantly. But the doors and mecahnisms they use on these cases SUCK, so soon the door snapped and no longer slides up, stuck half way looked even tackier, so I had to remove it.
PROBLEM #3
Not enough bays: I bought a CDR a few months later. But there were not enough drive bays with the irremovable CD ROM, so I had to take it apart to get it off, and cut my thumb open pretty good doing it.
PROBLEM #4
I put in the new CDR in the stop slot once i finally got the fancy Sony CD ROM out, and discovered that the front of the Sony was one plastic piece that was attached to the floppy. I had to remove that piece in order to replace the CD ROM, so now my floppy is this ugly piece of black plastic that doesnt match anything. You can also peek into the computer through the area surrounding the floppy due to odd case construction.
OTHER PROBLEMS
In addition to this, I spilt soda in the keyboard and had to replace it with a standard Logitech one, which does not match the case either. Compounding the ugly mess is the wheel mouse I replaced the tiny one that came with it. I will never a buy a non-beige case again.. Maybe these cases will allow for better upgrades, but I won't risk it until I can be sure everything looks sexy and sleek together.. You just need to run Enlightenment and no one will look at your ugly case
hz = times per second. Evidently, your mouse only sends to the computer a certain amount of times a second (with serial) by default. This isn't usually a problem, but with the speed of games like quake you might be going at 70 fps while your mouse is only sending 20 times a second, causing a bit of chopiness. I haven't used a USB mouse, but I think you'd have to be REALLY anal to notice the difference I think. Anyways his program makes his serial mouse update as often as a USB mouse.. I read that you can tell the difference if you bind some keys to look up and down, and then compare that to moving your mouse. the keyboard isnt limited like the mouse.. i think it's all horse shit.. just get a good mouse pad and a Logitech :)