While it's certainly a very infrequent occurence, it happens, mostly with certain games. Off the top of my head, I remember seeing a crash or two in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver for the DC and Turok 2 for the N64.
Sierra's lost their touch for making great adventure games. For me, it all started to crumble when they released Quest for Glory IV with its "arcade-style" combat system.
I haven't seen anything at all decent come from them recently except for SWAT 3: CQB. Other than that, they've just been milking Valve's Half-Life for all it's worth. Oh, and there was Homeworld, too, but Barking Dog developed that for them.
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Posting to slashdot isn't helping to make Linux a viable gaming platform either, sparky. If someone wants to write an emulator so others can play classic games, why do you care?
As anyone can see, Linux's troubles moving into the gaming market aren't due to the OS, but instead to the fact that compared to Windows, hardly anyone uses it, and of those that do, most aren't interested in playing games.
Look at those screenshots again. The characters aren't being blurred indiscriminately; only non-vertical and non-horizontal edges are smoothed. The only contrast anti-aliasing gets rid of is contrast that shouldn't be there in the first place (jagged edges).
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While it's certainly a very infrequent occurence, it happens, mostly with certain games. Off the top of my head, I remember seeing a crash or two in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver for the DC and Turok 2 for the N64.
Half-Life runs under Wine. See http://goatse.cx/ for more info, including a HOWTO.
Please tell me you just cut-and-pasted all of those from some other page.
I haven't seen anything at all decent come from them recently except for SWAT 3: CQB. Other than that, they've just been milking Valve's Half-Life for all it's worth. Oh, and there was Homeworld, too, but Barking Dog developed that for them.
As anyone can see, Linux's troubles moving into the gaming market aren't due to the OS, but instead to the fact that compared to Windows, hardly anyone uses it, and of those that do, most aren't interested in playing games.
Look at those screenshots again. The characters aren't being blurred indiscriminately; only non-vertical and non-horizontal edges are smoothed. The only contrast anti-aliasing gets rid of is contrast that shouldn't be there in the first place (jagged edges).