;-) Just trying to get people to think abit, since there seems to be alot of people here and at osnews almost outragous about the idea that opensource doesn't/can't produce games.
Congratulation. My point exactly. Game developemnt is hard, it takes _alot_ of resources other than plain coding (mappers,animators,modellers,sound recordings, etc.).
With the posibillity of ending up with a _huge_ engine, that tries to do just about anything, thus beeing big, overly complicated, and often a bit slow. Crystal Space is getting there(as in huge) now, and yet it hasn't one of the nicest thing an engine needs, which is good iterfacing and converters for content creation. Someone should perhaps convince garagegames to opensource their Torque engine, it's really nice;)
People are going to mention a heap of games now. Frozen Bubble, Freeciv, neverball, Torcs, Battle for Wesnorth, cube etc.
Ok, those are nice and fun games. But,save perhaps a few simulators, they are rather simple games. Simple but fun.
Where are OSS games like Knights of The Old Republic, Ratchet and Clank, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I like such games, never seen anything open source remotely like it. That's the kind og games we're talking about.
Agreed! Wtf is up with people, sometimes one really are ashamed of humankind, online gaming and usenet seems to draw all sorts of trash. Not to mention cheating, what fun is cheating ? Online game servers ought to have moderators.
I did that some weeks ago. Now, what would be the harm of that, given one erases the browser history rather quick ? Google stores all searches somewhere ?
Anyone got a description on how this thing really work ? e.g, what does it use to authenticate just _your_ key ? And is there a key on the linux box key that can potentionally be stolen, thus rendering your device useless ?
>It certainly won't be easy for free software in these developing >countries, especially considering how inexperienced with computers many >of the users will be. Love it or hate it, any idiot can use Windows. Might be, but any idot can use linux as well. I thing you might be using the wrong linux distro though.
IF they eventually release a client for Linux MacOSX, I hope people will buy those, rather than pirate it. Anything else than Windows and the console market are really just a niche, so buying it can hopefully show that a port it worth it.
That's not the real problem. Java is portable, and backwards compatible. The real issue with portability is you need.. a virtual machine for your platform. Sun ships it for windows,linux and solaris. I'm sure even most C programs written for *nix are far more portable than that
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wikipedia as usual ?
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Not really still activities in the CVS
The current release (0.2) is just some proof of concept, devels
are working on a nice'n'real solution.
you have a 33 MHz box that pulls 90Mbps of traffic ? I'm impressed ....
that should only take around 6 and a half minute to download
sort of like g_strdup or g_strdup_printf. Btw glib provides something similar
It was a retoric question on the X(free/org) DRI drivers...
These DRI drivers gets you hardware accelerated opengl on
all (newer) ati cards ?
antivir seems to work ok,
and is updated afaik.
Spyware removal software is obligatory on windwos as well.
;-) Just trying to get people to think abit, since there seems to
be alot of people here and at osnews almost outragous about the idea that opensource doesn't/can't produce games.
Congratulation.
My point exactly.
Game developemnt is hard, it takes _alot_ of resources other than plain coding (mappers,animators,modellers,sound recordings, etc.).
With the posibillity of ending up with a _huge_ engine, that tries ;)
to do just about anything, thus beeing big, overly complicated, and
often a bit slow. Crystal Space is getting there(as in huge) now, and
yet it hasn't one of the nicest thing an engine needs, which is good
iterfacing and converters for content creation.
Someone should perhaps convince garagegames to opensource their Torque
engine, it's really nice
People are going to mention a heap of games now.
Frozen Bubble, Freeciv, neverball, Torcs, Battle for Wesnorth, cube etc.
Ok, those are nice and fun games. But,save perhaps a few simulators,
they are rather simple games. Simple but fun.
Where are OSS games like Knights of The Old Republic, Ratchet and Clank,
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I like such games, never seen anything
open source remotely like it.
That's the kind og games we're talking about.
Agreed! Wtf is up with people, sometimes one really are ashamed of humankind, online gaming and usenet seems to draw all sorts of trash.
Not to mention cheating, what fun is cheating ?
Online game servers ought to have moderators.
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I did that some weeks ago. Now, what would be the harm of that,
given one erases the browser history rather quick ?
Google stores all searches somewhere ?
>Linux will never be as many flaws as there are with windows.
Are you sure ? 8)
Maybe I should be more clear, how does this _concept_ work, not how to use vp-usb-lock. But I'll check the sources ;)
Anyone got a description on how this thing really work ?
e.g, what does it use to authenticate just _your_ key ?
And is there a key on the linux box key that can potentionally be
stolen, thus rendering your device useless ?
>Anything I'm missing here??
There is probably a scroll bar in your browser window...
>It certainly won't be easy for free software in these developing
>countries, especially considering how inexperienced with computers many
>of the users will be. Love it or hate it, any idiot can use Windows.
Might be, but any idot can use linux as well.
I thing you might be using the wrong linux distro though.
IF they eventually release a client for Linux MacOSX, I hope people
will buy those, rather than pirate it. Anything else than Windows and the console market are really just a niche, so buying it can hopefully
show that a port it worth it.
- Which is why people came up with Xv.
Indeed, though most water were found on the poles, wheras the rovers
are not that far from the equator.
Mars Rovers != Mars Odyssey.
Ice on Mars
Odyssey Mission to Mars
It's here
That's not the real problem. Java is portable, and backwards compatible.
The real issue with portability is you need.. a virtual machine for
your platform. Sun ships it for windows,linux and solaris. I'm sure
even most C programs written for *nix are far more portable than that