When Loki released Kohan Immortal Soveriengs, it was network compatible with the Windows game, although there were bugs. Towards the end of Loki's life they were unable to port the newest patches, which will obviously break compatibility. After Ahrimans Gift was released, there were fewer KIS players and KIS was not compatible with KAG.
Its similar to what happened to Soldier of Fortune. The games were compatible on Windows and Linux, but the Linux port got outpatched.
There is a UT port to Linux, but Americas Army is based on Unreal Warfare. UW is closer to the engine for UT2003 and Unreal 2 than it is to Unreal Tournament.
http://handhelds.org. for Linux on the iPaq. No hardware tweaking needed, just need a serial cable, active sync, and the ability to read the instructions to install Linux.
Loki was porting Deus Ex although it was never released. It was held up waiting on some tools, and eventually died along with Loki. perhaps Ion Storm will finish it, but probably not.
Soon? I'm running it now. There are some items that are Zaurus only, but there are also some OPIE only features. You dont get to run Opera (unless you manage to get your hands on a copy), but Konquerer is available
wrong, wrong. They keep the changes to themselves in the sense that you can't reimport the changes into wine itself because of license incompatibilities. They chose to do that to encourage people to subscribe to their service.
No, they were imported from backups made of Loki's CVS repository yesterday. If you take a look at the cvs repository (http://cvs.icculus.org) you'll note that its more than just a single version in their. The past modifications to the projects are there also.
Its the official hosting site. Icculus is an ex employee of Loki ( He ported Descent 3 among others) and is will be hosting some of the tools that Loki had not yet released to the public.
Quake III is a bad example. Most of IDs money probably omes from selling and supporting their engines to other companies that want to write games. Not that the general idea of the post is wrong:)
they announched Chapter 11 a few months ago. That was pretty clear that the end was near, but not certain. Now they are saying the doors close at the end of the month.
But they dont have to provide them to you. They just have to give you the source for the version of the software you were given. If they give you a newer binary though, they have to offer you that source also, but you have no right to the newer binaries under the GPL.
They dont have to provide you perpetual upgrades. They only have to give you the Source for the version of the software they distributed. Any free upgrades are soley up to the discrestion of the distributor
Open GL support for the open source driver is lacking. It's only available in XFree86 3.3.6, and renders extremely poorly. If Nvidia drops linux support, your card wont be usless, they seem to be providing information on 2d support for the XFree86 developers. You just wont be getting 3d ( which by the time 2.8 comes out will be rather slow anyways)
I tried a copy out and really liked it, I really wish they'd start selling it so I can order a copy. Let me answer the questions I can.
Can you take screenshots?
No, you just get a black box in the shot where the video was. I think it had a snap shot button, but I didnt try it.
How about the kernel. Does the dvd player use a spesific kernel to run? Can I upgrade to 2.4.9 without it blowing up?
There is nothing kernel specific about it. I tried it out on a 2.4.7 kernel that I built. There a no kernel patches or modules to load.
What about changing distrobution? Will it blow up then? Are only Cakdera linux 2.4 binaries provided? What about the defacto red hat 6.x?
I tried it on Debian Unstable. I havent tried it on any other distros, but it should work given the prerequisites. RedHat 6.x probably wont work unless you install the required dependencies ( QT 2.something and XFree86 4.x). It does require an X Server that can handle XVideo extentions.
What about CSS, I presume it is kernel mode.
Nope. No nonstandard kernel support needed.
Did you test out the player with a large number of dvd's to see if any of them would fail?
Tried it with 5 dvds, they all worked. (No Way Out, Mystery Men, and Highlander 2, Donnie Brosco, and Peacemaker).
Do you have to mount the drive before playing?
No you dont.
Does the ui play frendly with the rest of the desktop (kde, gnome, etc)
The tool bars are a skinned interface, looks like your average video player. Underneath it was writte using qt.
How fast can you fast forward it? Can you make it go slow? Can you frame advace?
It will go fast and slow, sorry I cant be more detailed. Didnt see a frame advance ( didnt look very hard).
Do multiple angle's work?
There was an option to view different angles, but I dont have any dvds that I know support the feature.
Can it handle non-css content
Yes, Highlander 2 wasnt CSS encrypted and played fine
Funny thing is.... Loki didn't port either Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament. They where hired to do support for the games, but the ports were primarily done in house by ID and Epic.
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When Loki released Kohan Immortal Soveriengs, it was network compatible with the Windows game, although there were bugs. Towards the end of Loki's life they were unable to port the newest patches, which will obviously break compatibility. After Ahrimans Gift was released, there were fewer KIS players and KIS was not compatible with KAG.
Its similar to what happened to Soldier of Fortune. The games were compatible on Windows and Linux, but the Linux port got outpatched.
There is a UT port to Linux, but Americas Army is based on Unreal Warfare. UW is closer to the engine for UT2003 and Unreal 2 than it is to Unreal Tournament.
glibc is also compiled with processor enhancements.
http://handhelds.org. for Linux on the iPaq. No hardware tweaking needed, just need a serial cable, active sync, and the ability to read the instructions to install Linux.
Loki was porting Deus Ex although it was never released. It was held up waiting on some tools, and eventually died along with Loki. perhaps Ion Storm will finish it, but probably not.
It doesnt seem like criminal incompitence killed Loki. I'd bet Mr. Draeker knew exactly what he was doing, stealing every cent that he could.
Soon? I'm running it now. There are some items that are Zaurus only, but there are also some OPIE only features. You dont get to run Opera (unless you manage to get your hands on a copy), but Konquerer is available
The source for many of the applications (or at least the code they were based off of) is available from the QPE website. http://qpe.sourceforge.net
There are two related project to improve the applications and replace closed source applications with open source equivalants: OPIE and Open Zaurus.
For the time being OPIE will only run on Ipaqs, but OpenZaurus will be using it as the environment in the future
wrong, wrong. They keep the changes to themselves in the sense that you can't reimport the changes into wine itself because of license incompatibilities. They chose to do that to encourage people to subscribe to their service.
No, they were imported from backups made of Loki's CVS repository yesterday. If you take a look at the cvs repository (http://cvs.icculus.org) you'll note that its more than just a single version in their. The past modifications to the projects are there also.
Its the official hosting site. Icculus is an ex employee of Loki ( He ported Descent 3 among others) and is will be hosting some of the tools that Loki had not yet released to the public.
Quake III is a bad example. Most of IDs money probably omes from selling and supporting their engines to other companies that want to write games. Not that the general idea of the post is wrong :)
they announched Chapter 11 a few months ago. That was pretty clear that the end was near, but not certain. Now they are saying the doors close at the end of the month.
Serious Sam is being ported by http://icculus.org
Exactly the same thing as a single turing machine.
http://tuxgames.com. They are located in London.
But they dont have to provide them to you. They just have to give you the source for the version of the software you were given. If they give you a newer binary though, they have to offer you that source also, but you have no right to the newer binaries under the GPL.
They dont have to provide you perpetual upgrades. They only have to give you the Source for the version of the software they distributed. Any free upgrades are soley up to the discrestion of the distributor
That's actually the Loki installer that Code Weaver used.
Code is open and in CVS at sourceforge, just not in a license that would let the WINE team merge it in.
Open GL support for the open source driver is lacking. It's only available in XFree86 3.3.6, and renders extremely poorly. If Nvidia drops linux support, your card wont be usless, they seem to be providing information on 2d support for the XFree86 developers. You just wont be getting 3d ( which by the time 2.8 comes out will be rather slow anyways)
I tried a copy out and really liked it, I really wish they'd start selling it so I can order a copy. Let me answer the questions I can.
Can you take screenshots?
No, you just get a black box in the shot where the video was. I think it had a snap shot button, but I didnt try it.
How about the kernel. Does the dvd player use a spesific kernel to run? Can I upgrade to 2.4.9 without it blowing up?
There is nothing kernel specific about it. I tried it out on a 2.4.7 kernel that I built. There a no kernel patches or modules to load.
What about changing distrobution? Will it blow up then? Are only Cakdera linux 2.4 binaries provided? What about the defacto red hat 6.x?
I tried it on Debian Unstable. I havent tried it on any other distros, but it should work given the prerequisites. RedHat 6.x probably wont work unless you install the required dependencies ( QT 2.something and XFree86 4.x). It does require an X Server that can handle XVideo extentions.
What about CSS, I presume it is kernel mode.
Nope. No nonstandard kernel support needed.
Did you test out the player with a large number of dvd's to see if any of them would fail?
Tried it with 5 dvds, they all worked. (No Way Out, Mystery Men, and Highlander 2, Donnie Brosco, and Peacemaker).
Do you have to mount the drive before playing?
No you dont.
Does the ui play frendly with the rest of the desktop (kde, gnome, etc)
The tool bars are a skinned interface, looks like your average video player. Underneath it was writte using qt.
How fast can you fast forward it? Can you make it go slow? Can you frame advace?
It will go fast and slow, sorry I cant be more detailed. Didnt see a frame advance ( didnt look very hard).
Do multiple angle's work?
There was an option to view different angles, but I dont have any dvds that I know support the feature.
Can it handle non-css content
Yes, Highlander 2 wasnt CSS encrypted and played fine
The fry's in Fountain Valley and Woodland Hills stocked quite a few of Loki's games. They were slow in getting them though.
Funny thing is.... Loki didn't port either Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament. They where hired to do support for the games, but the ports were primarily done in house by ID and Epic.
Actually, Mplayer has been working on adding support for other platforms. Check it out at http://mplayer.sourceforge.net