Civ 3 is not 3d, it merely has flat, diamond tiles (like Civ 2) that are again sprites, just drawn in a 3d style. Hence my comment that Freeciv would just need to get some of these from a freedom loving member of the Civ 3 modding community.
While flashy graphics are often viewed as important in more arcadey genres, you will note that Freeciv is aimed at a different audience. When the game is based around mental concepts the game UI tends to be designed around funtionality, changing far less over time. An example of this is the sucess of Civ 3, which has essentially the same UI as Civ 2. The only thing (and even this is not a priority) that Freeciv needs to come up to the standards of commercial Civ games is to port some of the nicer tile/unit graphics from some of the Civ 3 mods.
I just can't wait untill EA unpredictably take the franchise and make a wholly uninspiring series of games and win in the market via massive marketing rather then any real attempt at innovative game concepts or quality....
I just can't wait untill EA unpredictably take the franchise and make a wholly uninspiring series of games and win in the market via massive marketing rather then any real attempt at innovative game concepts or quality....
I must concur...it is really remarkably ugly. It even fails to be the best Linux iTunes style jukebox, that honour falling to the Rhythmbox, which is a new and fancy music management application for GNOME very much in the iTunes style..
Actually Debian do provide a wrapped deb to install these in the contrib section - it is called msttcorefonts. Very convienient as it does not require much interaction but automatically fetches them from sourceforge.
>The "nv" driver for nvidia cards only supports >2d, and the "radeon" driver (from DRI) only >supports 3d acceleration in the Radeon 9200 and >below - not 9500/9600/9700/9800.
This is true. The nv dirver is currently *very* limited. I know that the 9200 will run UT2004 fine though - what more do you need on a Linux box? Much as I wish it were otherwise, the only thing on the scene that may stretch this is Doom 3, and if you want that I would reccomend waiting till launch date to buy as I have heard rumours that specs may eventually come out of ATI for the higher end chipsets.
Speaking as a Brit who has seen both US and Uk history textbooks, I would say that the UK history books are *far* more balanced. Plus it is important to remomber that things like the holocaust or the invention of concentration camps (by the UK) during the Boer war are taught here - and for me personally visiting the Somme very much brought home the futility and waste of human life that charaterises a lot of European history. So yes, I would say that we do.
Please note I have not gone in to quite how self-flageletory the German texbooks are about WW2...
Because iBook+Linux = 6 hours of Debian goodness. Or it would be if Apple can sort out my logic board. And no, this is not a troll - check my posting history.
Xouvert represents far more then merely tranparent windows etc, it represents a move to a more recognisable OSS model of working. XFree86 is charterised by a fairly closed development process, long patch intergration times, and close control by the steering group.
I am greatly looking forward to seeing a true open source methodolgy accelerate development.
In a capitalist society, items are worth exactly what the market will bear. Notice that nowhere here is there a distinction about corporial/non-conrporial items.
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Civ 3 is not 3d, it merely has flat, diamond tiles (like Civ 2) that are again sprites, just drawn in a 3d style. Hence my comment that Freeciv would just need to get some of these from a freedom loving member of the Civ 3 modding community.
While flashy graphics are often viewed as important in more arcadey genres, you will note that Freeciv is aimed at a different audience. When the game is based around mental concepts the game UI tends to be designed around funtionality, changing far less over time. An example of this is the sucess of Civ 3, which has essentially the same UI as Civ 2. The only thing (and even this is not a priority) that Freeciv needs to come up to the standards of commercial Civ games is to port some of the nicer tile/unit graphics from some of the Civ 3 mods.
I just can't wait untill EA unpredictably take the franchise and make a wholly uninspiring series of games and win in the market via massive marketing rather then any real attempt at innovative game concepts or quality....
WTF? I commented on the college licence buy and it appeared here. Will someone *please* fix slashdot's HTML code and backend?
I just can't wait untill EA unpredictably take the franchise and make a wholly uninspiring series of games and win in the market via massive marketing rather then any real attempt at innovative game concepts or quality....
Amusingly "American's" should not have a commar as it is merely plural, not indicative of ownership.
I'm sure their marketing department feel very smug about portraying Linux as insecure by using fake headers.
Bastards.
Further to this, I demand (score: 2, splendid discernment) as a mod type over here!
I would also very strongly appriciate being added to your list, thanks for that.
I'm surprised you have failed to consider a consumer level, hotpluggable interface.
I must concur...it is really remarkably ugly. It even fails to be the best Linux iTunes style jukebox, that honour falling to the Rhythmbox , which is a new and fancy music management application for GNOME very much in the iTunes style..
Actually Debian do provide a wrapped deb to install these in the contrib section - it is called msttcorefonts. Very convienient as it does not require much interaction but automatically fetches them from sourceforge.
>The "nv" driver for nvidia cards only supports >2d, and the "radeon" driver (from DRI) only >supports 3d acceleration in the Radeon 9200 and >below - not 9500/9600/9700/9800. This is true. The nv dirver is currently *very* limited. I know that the 9200 will run UT2004 fine though - what more do you need on a Linux box? Much as I wish it were otherwise, the only thing on the scene that may stretch this is Doom 3, and if you want that I would reccomend waiting till launch date to buy as I have heard rumours that specs may eventually come out of ATI for the higher end chipsets.
Parent is moderately bizarre in this respect - a GNAA troll with solid figures and linked, reputable sources...
Time for thanks for the DRI team, methinks.
Please note I have not gone in to quite how self-flageletory the German texbooks are about WW2...
Because iBook+Linux = 6 hours of Debian goodness. Or it would be if Apple can sort out my logic board. And no, this is not a troll - check my posting history.
The "Definitely untouchable 100% SCO free edition"...
I'm up for that...you seem to have enough offers to start a worthwhile business... ;) james_duncan8181@ntlworld.com
Actually KDE 3.2 beta has a small tab with start new session on it that does exactly this...looks like great minds think alike eh?
Xouvert represents far more then merely tranparent windows etc, it represents a move to a more recognisable OSS model of working. XFree86 is charterised by a fairly closed development process, long patch intergration times, and close control by the steering group. I am greatly looking forward to seeing a true open source methodolgy accelerate development.
One word. Debian.
In a capitalist society, items are worth exactly what the market will bear. Notice that nowhere here is there a distinction about corporial/non-conrporial items.
wasn't that fdr?
I am running an AMD 1600+ and a Geforce 4200. I have run 2.4.18bf, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, and 2.6-test1 without problems.