Re:Going Postal is a very good term.
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Yup I configured DRI just like they suggested it in the docs and it is 3D rendering, I can see it with the glxgears demo.
I really tried everything, upgraded all matrox modules, upgraded my kernel a few times, tried all possible gl libs on my machine and the game still runs choppy. Like I said before, I even sent e-mails to Loki support and they never answered back. Ok! I admit I'm fairly new to linux, about a year or so, but I'm an experienced developper and I know when I'm facing a problem that is not 6 inches from the monitor. Although, sometimes, I get nasty surprises;)
I might try again to install it on another machine at some point, but up to now, the game doesn't run properly on 4 of our office machines. And well, you know offices, they buy bundles of machine these days.
Re:Going Postal is a very good term.
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Yes. The game starts and you can configure all your settings and when you actually try to play the game it's just like watching a cad model with 3 billion polygons on pentium 166.
I don't know! ( As in 'I tried everything and it didn't work.' )
If it's a user problem, then we are 4 users + 1 sysadmin in our office who can't make the game work properly.
Plus, I read all Loki faqs, sent plenty of e-mails, got no answers. This why i made this point, they barely care about what they make.
Going Postal is a very good term.
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1. Postal is good, but not THAT good.
2. Postal is 20 minutes of fun, after that you switch to the expansion pack, which is another 20 minutes of fun.
3. Postal is even older that Loki itself.
4. Postal has an interresting engine that runs on pentium 166, meaning it's worthless. Nobody ever re-used that crap. Or somebody did and he's an idiot.
5. Tribes 2 is a lot more interresting and it still doesn't fuckin work on Linux + Matrox G450.
Conclusion: Loki makes games and 5 minutes later, they don't care about what they made. So you know what, maybe i don't really care Loki anymore or maybe i don't really care about playing games under Linux.
Linux = 'For Workin'.
Ouindoze = 'For Playin'.
Re:Imperial vs. Metric: SERIOUSLY OFFTOPIC!
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Sorry, dude you live in wrong part of the country, around here, in Quebec, we learn da metric system since grade 1.
Actually, no. They closed down Dynamix, however the game is still Sierra's. So they transferred a part of the team to Sierra and they are now making patches. The Tribes 2 community had one yesterday.
Solaris picked up the "slow-laris" nickname from its performance on tiny single and dual processor boxes
Really ? I thought it picked up the nickname because of its incredible slow interface...
Next time i develop a worm, i'll put in a little timeout. ( A sort of period of time the worm has to infect a certain IP ).
Seriously, when are people going to stop thinking about stupid patch solutions! This one is even worst than the last one. What was it again ? Oh yeah! The anti-virus who acts exactly like a virus and takes as much bandwith as the one it's trying to fight.
There's only one solution, make the vulnerable software better. In other words bust microsoft's balls until they FINALLY MAKE QUALITY SOFTWARE!!
To this I'm adding a small idea, just because i like thinking also:
Why not change our laws like this:
If the software is sold as a proprietary software, then the company is responsible for any damages the use of it might incur to its users.
If the software is open, i.e. not proprietary, then no one would be responsible for any damages using it might incur. Hey! It's open who are you
going to sue anyway!
We've got one MAJOR problem that prevents games from invading the linux environment. The 'Out of the box' concept. Most games developped for linux, well most of what i saw, had so many freakin dependencies, installing them is one of the worst nightmare a gamer has to face. That, of course, doesn't help making games more popular under linux at all. ( I double dare anyone to prove me wrong. )
We'll have to realize someday that reusing common APIs for our projects is great, but sometimes the wheel has to be reinvented to prevent complications and a shitload of dependencies. Anyway if the wheel had not been reinvented, we would still be traveling in wooden chariots. So what's the point of reinventing the wheel? MAKE IT FREAKIN BETTER!
Of course, we could always make us a full standard DX clone and try the gaming experience again, however we would still have freakin problems with hardware support and all that shit.
A small opinion in a small world, here's another one for a short conclusion:
Linux = 'for workin';
Windows = 'for playin';
BTW: I have yet to see Tribes 2 run correctly on Linux. That maybe is because i tried running it with a Matrox Card or just because i have no clue on how to configure DRI properly, but it still points back to the beginning of my comment: "Where is the out of the box?"
Maybe you should define the term violence, cause if you ask me a bunch of lemmings shooting each other with bazookas is a bit violent.;)
With the violence term defined, i would still think a good game on the Europeen Wars with many many historical references would do the job extremely well. Try Cossacks, even if it isn't a good game for your project, it's still a good game to try out.
They're going the wrong way, we're not looking for
a technology to arrest people, but a technology to
prevent them from drinking and driving. Meaning,
if you're drunk the car doesn't start period.
If this technology can be converted for this
purpose, then I'm for it a 100%.
I don't agree with you at all. PERL is probably the most flexible language around. PERL has functional programming capacities, oriented object capacities and procedural ones as well. In two words it does the freakin dishes...
On the whole, it's a complete horror show
I bet you xxxxxxxxxx$ you never looked at it seriously, so stop bitchin' and start learning it'll make your life a lot easier. Obscure? When is the last time you wrote a C/C++ lump of code?
I don't know about you, but i prefer writing 10 lines of PERL than a 100 lines of Java that does exactly the same thing.
I'm going to stop now, it'll start to look like a flame, sorry.
To my knowledge a great majority of the most popular 3D games run better on OpenGL, not DX.
Let's see: Quake
UT
Tribes
Half-Life
....
Append your own
The author's comment is suprising in which OpenGL is strictly a 3D API and DX is an all purpose Gaming API. Comparing Direct3D to OpenGL yields the fact that most 3D games run on OpenGL.
The future of OpenGL ISN'T IN DANGER.
I gotta little question, if i start a riot will i get protection...
That's really a bold statement. I don't really like Java neither ( too slow, bad mem management, etc... ), but the language have certainly uses people would not even imagine.
Ever heard of the KVM, it's a small virtual machine held in only 40k used in cellphones and Palms.
Is Java going to replace C/C++? Answering yes to this question is another, more stupid, bold statement. C/C++ has been around longer that any other known popular languages and there's a simple reason for this. It's Reliable, Flexible and it performs well. That's all a developper needs from a language. Can you say the same for Java? This is more questionable than most people think.
People that want to get rid of C/C++ are just frustrated because they can't master the masters' language and people that want to get rid of Java are just frustrated, because some have found uses to a language that is definitely inferior to C/C++.
So in conclusion, Java is fun and all, but it's not going to replace a more flexbile tool and it's
not going to pushed aside either because you can't make a kernel out of it.
Yeah sure! What use do you have in writting this if you don't get any honor and adventure? This person is right and you can't even face it.
Arrogance and Pride is most probably the one thing that currently prevents the Open Source movement from ravaging corporate bullies like wild fire. Someday you people will have to accept the fact that innovation ISN'T AND NEVER WAS ABOUT CREDITS!
Ignorance and arrogance are the core of human hatred...
I heard on the community forums that Sierra is looking for a possible buyer and maintainer for the Tribes 2 unit. You can't just close down a game community that has over 200,000 participants. Would be a freakin stupid decision.
Plus the Tribes 2 designer would go along with the game. I personally think Garage Games should take it under it's wing, but that's just a personal feeling.
Did I already said all i needed was a freakin spinfuser and a jetpack?
However, this would still eat up bandwidth. How would you tell that virus to cease it's activities in the end?
$virus->terminate() if($virus->end()); ?;)
I mean it's still a virus and would still scan to propagate itself even though all systems are safe and secure. That just pushes the problem to a another layer.
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Yup I configured DRI just like they suggested it in the docs and it is 3D rendering, I can see it with the glxgears demo.
;)
I really tried everything, upgraded all matrox modules, upgraded my kernel a few times, tried all possible gl libs on my machine and the game still runs choppy. Like I said before, I even sent e-mails to Loki support and they never answered back. Ok! I admit I'm fairly new to linux, about a year or so, but I'm an experienced developper and I know when I'm facing a problem that is not 6 inches from the monitor. Although, sometimes, I get nasty surprises
I might try again to install it on another machine at some point, but up to now, the game doesn't run properly on 4 of our office machines. And well, you know offices, they buy bundles of machine these days.
Yes. The game starts and you can configure all your settings and when you actually try to play the game it's just like watching a cad model with 3 billion polygons on pentium 166.
I don't know! ( As in 'I tried everything and it didn't work.' )
If it's a user problem, then we are 4 users + 1 sysadmin in our office who can't make the game work properly.
Plus, I read all Loki faqs, sent plenty of e-mails, got no answers. This why i made this point, they barely care about what they make.
1. Postal is good, but not THAT good.
2. Postal is 20 minutes of fun, after that you switch to the expansion pack, which is another 20 minutes of fun.
3. Postal is even older that Loki itself.
4. Postal has an interresting engine that runs on pentium 166, meaning it's worthless. Nobody ever re-used that crap. Or somebody did and he's an idiot.
5. Tribes 2 is a lot more interresting and it still doesn't fuckin work on Linux + Matrox G450.
Conclusion: Loki makes games and 5 minutes later, they don't care about what they made. So you know what, maybe i don't really care Loki anymore or maybe i don't really care about playing games under Linux.
Linux = 'For Workin'.
Ouindoze = 'For Playin'.
Sorry, dude you live in wrong part of the country, around here, in Quebec, we learn da metric system since grade 1.
How else do you refer to our neighbors? United Statsians? Get real.
;) lol
But I do
Let me correct one of your sentence:
...
... a while ago.
Only America is still stuck with an archaic measurement system that requires more conversion factors than positive aspects to it..
Replaced by: Only the United States are still stuck with an archaic
Dig my jive ? Canada has been using the Metric system since
The AC is right, IBM got it up their ... So should Microsoft if we want to accomplish anything.
Nedit Rocks my .... ;)
Anybody knows the definition of 'sarcasm' ?
didn't Sierra close the doors?
;)
Actually, no. They closed down Dynamix, however the game is still Sierra's. So they transferred a part of the team to Sierra and they are now making patches. The Tribes 2 community had one yesterday.
Solaris picked up the "slow-laris" nickname from its performance on tiny single and dual processor boxes
Really ? I thought it picked up the nickname because of its incredible slow interface...
Interresting.
That's, of course, if Tribes 2 ever gets ported to S'low'aris. ;)
Next time i develop a worm, i'll put in a little timeout. ( A sort of period of time the worm has to infect a certain IP ).
Seriously, when are people going to stop thinking about stupid patch solutions! This one is even worst than the last one. What was it again ? Oh yeah! The anti-virus who acts exactly like a virus and takes as much bandwith as the one it's trying to fight.
There's only one solution, make the vulnerable software better. In other words bust microsoft's balls until they FINALLY MAKE QUALITY SOFTWARE!!
To this I'm adding a small idea, just because i like thinking also:
Why not change our laws like this:
If the software is sold as a proprietary software, then the company is responsible for any damages the use of it might incur to its users.
If the software is open, i.e. not proprietary, then no one would be responsible for any damages using it might incur. Hey! It's open who are you
going to sue anyway!
We've got one MAJOR problem that prevents games from invading the linux environment. The 'Out of the box' concept. Most games developped for linux, well most of what i saw, had so many freakin dependencies, installing them is one of the worst nightmare a gamer has to face. That, of course, doesn't help making games more popular under linux at all. ( I double dare anyone to prove me wrong. )
We'll have to realize someday that reusing common APIs for our projects is great, but sometimes the wheel has to be reinvented to prevent complications and a shitload of dependencies. Anyway if the wheel had not been reinvented, we would still be traveling in wooden chariots. So what's the point of reinventing the wheel? MAKE IT FREAKIN BETTER!
Of course, we could always make us a full standard DX clone and try the gaming experience again, however we would still have freakin problems with hardware support and all that shit.
A small opinion in a small world, here's another one for a short conclusion:
Linux = 'for workin';
Windows = 'for playin';
BTW: I have yet to see Tribes 2 run correctly on Linux. That maybe is because i tried running it with a Matrox Card or just because i have no clue on how to configure DRI properly, but it still points back to the beginning of my comment: "Where is the out of the box?"
Oops, touche... well lemmings blewing up in 100 nice little explosions is euh ... somewhat violent ?
Anyway i think you got my pov.
Maybe you should define the term violence, cause if you ask me a bunch of lemmings shooting each other with bazookas is a bit violent. ;)
With the violence term defined, i would still think a good game on the Europeen Wars with many many historical references would do the job extremely well. Try Cossacks, even if it isn't a good game for your project, it's still a good game to try out.
They're going the wrong way, we're not looking for
a technology to arrest people, but a technology to
prevent them from drinking and driving. Meaning,
if you're drunk the car doesn't start period.
If this technology can be converted for this
purpose, then I'm for it a 100%.
Chaos: A broken pattern.
I don't agree with you at all. PERL is probably the most flexible language around. PERL has functional programming capacities, oriented object capacities and procedural ones as well. In two words it does the freakin dishes ...
On the whole, it's a complete horror show
I bet you xxxxxxxxxx$ you never looked at it seriously, so stop bitchin' and start learning it'll make your life a lot easier. Obscure? When is the last time you wrote a C/C++ lump of code?
I don't know about you, but i prefer writing 10 lines of PERL than a 100 lines of Java that does exactly the same thing.
I'm going to stop now, it'll start to look like a flame, sorry.
To my knowledge a great majority of the most popular 3D games run better on OpenGL, not DX.
...
Let's see:
Quake
UT
Tribes
Half-Life
....
Append your own
The author's comment is suprising in which OpenGL is strictly a 3D API and DX is an all purpose Gaming API. Comparing Direct3D to OpenGL yields the fact that most 3D games run on OpenGL.
The future of OpenGL ISN'T IN DANGER.
I gotta little question, if i start a riot will i get protection
Ever heard of the KVM, it's a small virtual machine held in only 40k used in cellphones and Palms.
Is Java going to replace C/C++? Answering yes to this question is another, more stupid, bold statement. C/C++ has been around longer that any other known popular languages and there's a simple reason for this. It's Reliable, Flexible and it performs well. That's all a developper needs from a language. Can you say the same for Java? This is more questionable than most people think.
People that want to get rid of C/C++ are just frustrated because they can't master the masters' language and people that want to get rid of Java are just frustrated, because some have found uses to a language that is definitely inferior to C/C++.
So in conclusion, Java is fun and all, but it's not going to replace a more flexbile tool and it's not going to pushed aside either because you can't make a kernel out of it.
Java + Webapp = another failing .com ;)
Tyler Durden says use soap...
mmm
This is probably what everybody said about C++ when they were using C. I'm not flaming, i'm arguing...
Arrogance and Pride is most probably the one thing that currently prevents the Open Source movement from ravaging corporate bullies like wild fire. Someday you people will have to accept the fact that innovation ISN'T AND NEVER WAS ABOUT CREDITS!
Ignorance and arrogance are the core of human hatred...
WTF are you talking about ?
Plus the Tribes 2 designer would go along with the game. I personally think Garage Games should take it under it's wing, but that's just a personal feeling.
Did I already said all i needed was a freakin spinfuser and a jetpack?
http://www.fu-fme.com/
He he... personally i don't need it ;)
$virus->terminate() if($virus->end()); ? ;)
I mean it's still a virus and would still scan to propagate itself even though all systems are safe and secure. That just pushes the problem to a another layer.
There's a simple solution to every problem...