[...] a remake of Duke Nuke 3D with newer gfx, and sound that works under WinXPa remake of Duke Nuke 3D with newer gfx, and sound that works under WinXP [...]
OK. I help you: It's called Duke Nukem Forever. It will surely be a fantastibulous game. Now, you just need to draw a pentacle on the floor of your living-room, light candles, and start muttering incantations to make that game be released (you must be a Necromant level 35+ or a 3D Realms executive to have a chance, of course:-)
Disclaimer: Post written in b0rkenEnglish[tm]. Wi arre notte responsable for speling und gramatikal mistaeks. Thaenks.
Yeah, you can even find e-mail to Minitel gateways (kinda like reading mail with PINE on a VT100, if you want my opinion:-)
BTW, the Minitel terminals make good cheap consoles for Linux. If you happen to be in France, just put a modem with mgetty on your box. You can then access it from any house equipped with a Minitel just by dialing your box's number then pressing the `Connexion/Fin' button (don't forget to switch the terminal to 80-column mode). If nothing else, it makes me laugh when everyone in the room looks strangely at me, probably thinking I've just hacked the Telco's system:-))
I didn't troll about SDL versus other libraries at all, not in one word
And I never said you did. I said Michael Speck did in the interview (the point was that the interviewer should have asked more productive questions). I thought my English was readable enough to avoid misunderstandings. Apparently, that's not the case. I'll reinstate the standard disclaimer at the next post. Sorry.
I don't know what is the reason people are always annoyed when I say something
I don't know, too, since I cannot remember having read one of your posts since yesterday (I don't read most comments on/.). BTW, the things I wanted to make clear is that Mr. Speck is a promising programmer, and one of the most creative on the Linux scene. That makes him enough of a celebrity in my mind... As for you being moderated down, I think you can safely assume that there is a lot of unfair people on/. (they've invented the meta-moderation just to counter that trend, if I remember well). My post wasn't mean to be an attack on you. Sorry if you thought so.
[ BEGIN STANDARD DISCLAIMER : this post is written in b0rkenEnglish[tm]. The speling as been corekted to the beste of our nowlege. Beare withe us if there are stile erorrs. ]
[...] a gifted young hobby programmer learning his way through the SDL
And so ? Have you forgotten how the best game designers started their career ? The ID Software programmers started by coding Commander Keen. And who remember that the authors of Unreal were responsible for z-rated underdogs such as Jill Of The Jungle ? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some day, we heard that the author of the LGames has been hired by a commercial game studio. In contrast, few Linux game programmers have been as prolific, and an awful lot of Linux games are horrendous (crappy or stolen graphics, no sound, early releases with no story or levels, bad gameplay, etc.). The LGames have at least the quality you would expect from a good Windows shareware game, while being free (as in beer, I mean) at the same time. Could you name many other influential Linux game designers that lie in the realm of Open Source ? If you take out the library programmers (Sam Lantinga/SDL, Shawn Hargreaves/Allegro, Jorrit Tyberghein/Crystal Space, Brian Paul/Mesa), the programmers of big (or considered so) projects that are heard of frequently (FreeCraft, FreeCiv, FlightGear, WorldForge,...), there is not many people left. So, I *definitely* think that interviewing people that make fun games is a Good Thing. But the questions should (IMHO) be oriented as to help other prospective game programmers make their games fun, too. That would be more productive than a SDL-versus-the-other-game-libraries troll:-)
France has tried to move into the electronic realm, but the Governmental Idiots botched it. The LaPoste.Net service has no clear advantages over any other e-mail provider, except maybe that you can access your mailbox from a Minitel terminal. But this is no big deal, since (1) France Telecom has ceased distributing free terminals, you're forced to rent one, (2) the service isn't free (a shame), and (3) would you like reading your e-mail on a 40-column VT100 with a 1200bps line ? Oh, and to top that great picture, the morons outsourced the service to a bunch of idiots who made an unsecure site. Fantastic!
Oh, well, this just confirms that a lot of people in the Governements still cannot understand they should try to *think* for at least a minute before spending taxpayers' money in such moronic stunts. And whatever the government you elect, they make the *very same* mistakes... Depressing:-(
I really doubt NetBSD runs on the Atari ST, since that Motorola 68000-based machine doesn't have an MMU (and thus, no memory protection). But it sure can run on the 68030-based Atari TT and the mighty Falcon. BTW, Linux runs on these, too! A special fork of CLinux (the Linux without MMU , aimed at embedded implementations) existed to allow it to run on the original ST line of machines, but has been discontinued. Too bad I'm far from being a kernel hacker:-(
Remember, people: Atari LIVES ! Now, if someone would just make a PowerPC extension for the Falcon, the life would finally have a meaning:-))
You might have a look here. That's a (Free Software|Open Source|Whatever) CMS (licensed under GPL), very professional, and with a host of features. It's very promising (although a bit oversized in contrast to simple blogs like SlashCode or DaCode : you'll need a library, an Apache module, etc.). Still, I haven't had enough time to test it correctly, so I won't comment on how well it fares...
Oh yeah, and it's PHP4, so if you only know Perl, you'll need an adaptation period. But I don't think it really matters: PHP is damn easy to learn, especially if you already know another programming language (really! Two weeks were enough for me to build working sites, and saying I'm not a genius is an euphemism:-)
> The Spanish Talgo is in the works and will do 350 kph (218 mph).
Huh... What Talgo are you talking of ? The Talgo trains are mainly known over here as variable-gauge trains (to link Spain and France, since the two railways use different track gauges) but not as HSTs. The Spanish HST is a licensed version of the TGV known as AVE (Alta Velocidad Española). You could try this page on the Spanish Railways website (warning: MOV file, so Linux users are probably out of luck)...
This must be what Don Bluth wanted to do with Dragon's Lair and its offspring, Space Ace. Too bad they weren't interactive enough. This time, maybe we have got a REAL interactive cartoon. But I hope this kind of game will be done on other platforms, 'cause I don't like Nintendo...
Huh ? I have a 200 MHz Pentium MMX ! With 64 (yes, sixty-four) MB RAM. And still I don't see WTF I couldn't use a browser. I'm sorry to say this but the Mozilla XUL interface is simply a Bad Choice[tm]. They should have stick to another way for making their product portable. Currently, Mozilla is far too bloated and spend all his time swapping on my box (I use the latest nightly builds). I finally felt back on Konqueror ; even though it is horrendous (it doesn't respect any standards. It doesn't even know that a PRE doesn't wrap:-( at least it is fast 'cause I use KDE (note : I use XFCE when I need to use Mozilla to give him a little more RAM) and it has its libraries already pre-loaded. Still, this is symptomatic of modern programmers : they are no more focused on efficiency. Nowadays, all applications are big bloatwares implementing a host of needless features instead of doing just what they are written for. Even Galeon/Skipstone regularly go up in my `top' display because of the bloated underlying Gecko engine. This is awful. But I still have hope. There *must* be a solution. Hem... A browser written in Assembler, anyone ?:-)
Then you should use Google Groups, the sequel to DejaNews that looks specifically in newsgroups archives. Maybe the same should be done for mailing-lists archives. But this would force us to do three searches. Well, I really don't know what would be more efficient:-/
Great device. It's a shame it won't sell...
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First, I should say that I'm biased. I can't bear nVIDIA 'cause they make fuckin' closed-source drivers, and thus deserve to burn in the eternal flames of Hell (well, maybe this is still not enough;-)
Still, the Radeon is a great card, with plenty of nice features to keep the games developers happy (couldn't they just stick to open, interoperable APIs?), very good performances, and if ATI follows its policy of releasing their specs, it will surely have good Linux support. So, I'll probably buy it as soon as the drivers are out (or the 7500 if I've not enough money).
But, unless ATI releases optimized (Windows) drivers, this card is going to fail its sales goals. The cause are the so-called hardcore gamers , you know, these guys that are addicted to speed in a purely nonsensical way. They overclock their machine, they spend so much time and money doing all these tweaks that they could buy a new, faster, CPU for the same price, and with less efforts... These guys will read the benchmarks, find that ATI's card compute 0.00003 FPS less than a GeForce 3 on Operation Flashpoint, and they'll discard it as being completely outperformed by nVIDIA. They run nVIDIA cards since a long time anyway, so whey would they switch? And this card, because of its price is targeted towards them. So, if ATI fails to give these people highly optimized drivers so they can wave their benchmarks around, the Radeon 8500 won't be a success. And this would be a shame, 'cause nowadays there are only three serious players in the GPU market: ATI, nVIDIA and Matrox. And I really don't want one to leave, we've enough monopolies and enough closed-source software, thanks...
It's called Aptitude. It's only included in Sid AFAIK, but it's nevertheless neat. First, that's a ncurses app: No stupid GUI bloat. Second, it's as simple as Mutt (which I happen to like, too;-)) And third, the author is cool and listen to the users (which is a very good point). I use it daily to manage my overbloated distro and it does a great job. If you've got a Sid, you should definitely have a look at it...
I mean: Why these guys (mod-freaks) are so eager to destroy good hardware just to make its appearance plase them? I can barely understand an out-of-order VAX being transformed in a bar, but when some idiot destroys a WonderSwan just to play GBA games in its case, or a G4 just to put a crappy PC Motherboard inside, I'm ashamed.
Besides, maybe they don't know that a G4 runs Linux. And Loki has released their games in PPC versions. Coming to a LAN with a G4 running Quake III on top of Linux would be IMHO more impressive (best of all, it would probably convince more Mac users to drop their crappy MacOS, more gamers to try Linux, etc.)...
Note that I'm not saying it's no good to tweak a machine, I'm just saying it's good if you're actually *improving* it, but destroying it for æsthetical purposes seems pointless to me...
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[...] a remake of Duke Nuke 3D with newer gfx, and sound that works under WinXPa remake of Duke Nuke 3D with newer gfx, and sound that works under WinXP [...]
OK. I help you: It's called Duke Nukem Forever. It will surely be a fantastibulous game. Now, you just need to draw a pentacle on the floor of your living-room, light candles, and start muttering incantations to make that game be released (you must be a Necromant level 35+ or a 3D Realms executive to have a chance, of course :-)
Disclaimer: Post written in b0rkenEnglish[tm]. Wi arre notte responsable for speling und gramatikal mistaeks. Thaenks.
Yeah, you can even find e-mail to Minitel gateways (kinda like reading mail with PINE on a VT100, if you want my opinion :-)
:-))
BTW, the Minitel terminals make good cheap consoles for Linux. If you happen to be in France, just put a modem with mgetty on your box. You can then access it from any house equipped with a Minitel just by dialing your box's number then pressing the `Connexion/Fin' button (don't forget to switch the terminal to 80-column mode). If nothing else, it makes me laugh when everyone in the room looks strangely at me, probably thinking I've just hacked the Telco's system
I didn't troll about SDL versus other libraries at all, not in one word
And I never said you did. I said Michael Speck did in the interview (the point was that the interviewer should have asked more productive questions). I thought my English was readable enough to avoid misunderstandings. Apparently, that's not the case. I'll reinstate the standard disclaimer at the next post. Sorry.
I don't know what is the reason people are always annoyed when I say something
I don't know, too, since I cannot remember having read one of your posts since yesterday (I don't read most comments on /.). BTW, the things I wanted to make clear is that Mr. Speck is a promising programmer, and one of the most creative on the Linux scene. That makes him enough of a celebrity in my mind... As for you being moderated down, I think you can safely assume that there is a lot of unfair people on /. (they've invented the meta-moderation just to counter that trend, if I remember well). My post wasn't mean to be an attack on you. Sorry if you thought so.
[ BEGIN STANDARD DISCLAIMER : this post is written in b0rkenEnglish[tm]. The speling as been corekted to the beste of our nowlege. Beare withe us if there are stile erorrs. ]
[...] a gifted young hobby programmer learning his way through the SDL
And so ? Have you forgotten how the best game designers started their career ? The ID Software programmers started by coding Commander Keen. And who remember that the authors of Unreal were responsible for z-rated underdogs such as Jill Of The Jungle ? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some day, we heard that the author of the LGames has been hired by a commercial game studio. In contrast, few Linux game programmers have been as prolific, and an awful lot of Linux games are horrendous (crappy or stolen graphics, no sound, early releases with no story or levels, bad gameplay, etc.). The LGames have at least the quality you would expect from a good Windows shareware game, while being free (as in beer, I mean) at the same time. Could you name many other influential Linux game designers that lie in the realm of Open Source ? If you take out the library programmers (Sam Lantinga/SDL, Shawn Hargreaves/Allegro, Jorrit Tyberghein/Crystal Space, Brian Paul/Mesa), the programmers of big (or considered so) projects that are heard of frequently (FreeCraft, FreeCiv, FlightGear, WorldForge,...), there is not many people left. So, I *definitely* think that interviewing people that make fun games is a Good Thing. But the questions should (IMHO) be oriented as to help other prospective game programmers make their games fun, too. That would be more productive than a SDL-versus-the-other-game-libraries troll :-)
Oh, well, just my .2 anyway...
France has tried to move into the electronic realm, but the Governmental Idiots botched it. The LaPoste.Net service has no clear advantages over any other e-mail provider, except maybe that you can access your mailbox from a Minitel terminal. But this is no big deal, since (1) France Telecom has ceased distributing free terminals, you're forced to rent one, (2) the service isn't free (a shame), and (3) would you like reading your e-mail on a 40-column VT100 with a 1200bps line ? Oh, and to top that great picture, the morons outsourced the service to a bunch of idiots who made an unsecure site. Fantastic!
Oh, well, this just confirms that a lot of people in the Governements still cannot understand they should try to *think* for at least a minute before spending taxpayers' money in such moronic stunts. And whatever the government you elect, they make the *very same* mistakes... Depressing :-(
I really doubt NetBSD runs on the Atari ST, since that Motorola 68000-based machine doesn't have an MMU (and thus, no memory protection). But it sure can run on the 68030-based Atari TT and the mighty Falcon. BTW, Linux runs on these, too! A special fork of CLinux (the Linux without MMU , aimed at embedded implementations) existed to allow it to run on the original ST line of machines, but has been discontinued. Too bad I'm far from being a kernel hacker :-(
:-))
Remember, people: Atari LIVES ! Now, if someone would just make a PowerPC extension for the Falcon, the life would finally have a meaning
You might have a look here. That's a (Free Software|Open Source|Whatever) CMS (licensed under GPL), very professional, and with a host of features. It's very promising (although a bit oversized in contrast to simple blogs like SlashCode or DaCode : you'll need a library, an Apache module, etc.). Still, I haven't had enough time to test it correctly, so I won't comment on how well it fares...
:-)
Oh yeah, and it's PHP4, so if you only know Perl, you'll need an adaptation period. But I don't think it really matters: PHP is damn easy to learn, especially if you already know another programming language (really! Two weeks were enough for me to build working sites, and saying I'm not a genius is an euphemism
> The Spanish Talgo is in the works and will do 350 kph (218 mph).
Huh... What Talgo are you talking of ? The Talgo trains are mainly known over here as variable-gauge trains (to link Spain and France, since the two railways use different track gauges) but not as HSTs. The Spanish HST is a licensed version of the TGV known as AVE (Alta Velocidad Española). You could try this page on the Spanish Railways website (warning: MOV file, so Linux users are probably out of luck)...
Yes, AOL runs on Linux. But it isn't AOL's fault neither ;-)
Check The PengAOL site to find about the Linux client software.
Shouldn't it have the code 666 instead?
This must be what Don Bluth wanted to do with Dragon's Lair and its offspring, Space Ace. Too bad they weren't interactive enough. This time, maybe we have got a REAL interactive cartoon. But I hope this kind of game will be done on other platforms, 'cause I don't like Nintendo...
> 0.9.1 is usable on a 350 Mhz Pentium II
:-( at least it is fast 'cause I use KDE (note : I use XFCE when I need to use Mozilla to give him a little more RAM) and it has its libraries already pre-loaded. Still, this is symptomatic of modern programmers : they are no more focused on efficiency. Nowadays, all applications are big bloatwares implementing a host of needless features instead of doing just what they are written for. Even Galeon/Skipstone regularly go up in my `top' display because of the bloated underlying Gecko engine. This is awful. But I still have hope. There *must* be a solution. Hem... A browser written in Assembler, anyone ? :-)
Huh ? I have a 200 MHz Pentium MMX ! With 64 (yes, sixty-four) MB RAM. And still I don't see WTF I couldn't use a browser. I'm sorry to say this but the Mozilla XUL interface is simply a Bad Choice[tm]. They should have stick to another way for making their product portable. Currently, Mozilla is far too bloated and spend all his time swapping on my box (I use the latest nightly builds). I finally felt back on Konqueror ; even though it is horrendous (it doesn't respect any standards. It doesn't even know that a PRE doesn't wrap
Then you should use Google Groups, the sequel to DejaNews that looks specifically in newsgroups archives. Maybe the same should be done for mailing-lists archives. But this would force us to do three searches. Well, I really don't know what would be more efficient :-/
First, I should say that I'm biased. I can't bear nVIDIA 'cause they make fuckin' closed-source drivers, and thus deserve to burn in the eternal flames of Hell (well, maybe this is still not enough ;-)
Still, the Radeon is a great card, with plenty of nice features to keep the games developers happy (couldn't they just stick to open, interoperable APIs?), very good performances, and if ATI follows its policy of releasing their specs, it will surely have good Linux support. So, I'll probably buy it as soon as the drivers are out (or the 7500 if I've not enough money).
But, unless ATI releases optimized (Windows) drivers, this card is going to fail its sales goals. The cause are the so-called hardcore gamers , you know, these guys that are addicted to speed in a purely nonsensical way. They overclock their machine, they spend so much time and money doing all these tweaks that they could buy a new, faster, CPU for the same price, and with less efforts... These guys will read the benchmarks, find that ATI's card compute 0.00003 FPS less than a GeForce 3 on Operation Flashpoint, and they'll discard it as being completely outperformed by nVIDIA. They run nVIDIA cards since a long time anyway, so whey would they switch? And this card, because of its price is targeted towards them. So, if ATI fails to give these people highly optimized drivers so they can wave their benchmarks around, the Radeon 8500 won't be a success. And this would be a shame, 'cause nowadays there are only three serious players in the GPU market: ATI, nVIDIA and Matrox. And I really don't want one to leave, we've enough monopolies and enough closed-source software, thanks...
It's called Aptitude. It's only included in Sid AFAIK, but it's nevertheless neat. First, that's a ncurses app: No stupid GUI bloat. Second, it's as simple as Mutt (which I happen to like, too ;-)) And third, the author is cool and listen to the users (which is a very good point). I use it daily to manage my overbloated distro and it does a great job. If you've got a Sid, you should definitely have a look at it...
I mean: Why these guys (mod-freaks) are so eager to destroy good hardware just to make its appearance plase them? I can barely understand an out-of-order VAX being transformed in a bar, but when some idiot destroys a WonderSwan just to play GBA games in its case, or a G4 just to put a crappy PC Motherboard inside, I'm ashamed.
Besides, maybe they don't know that a G4 runs Linux. And Loki has released their games in PPC versions. Coming to a LAN with a G4 running Quake III on top of Linux would be IMHO more impressive (best of all, it would probably convince more Mac users to drop their crappy MacOS, more gamers to try Linux, etc.)...
Note that I'm not saying it's no good to tweak a machine, I'm just saying it's good if you're actually *improving* it, but destroying it for æsthetical purposes seems pointless to me...