I'm part of the team that works on ioquake3, the open source project that this ipad version is based on. This project (Beben III) has not contributed their changes back to ioquake3, or made them easily available for the public. It is extremely disappointing when bad players like this are given press and make money off of the backs of others.
Please do not spend your money on apps that are bad open-source contributors, and please do not give them press.
I founded the ioquake3 project with some friends in 2005.
The experience of working with the OpenArena project was similar to that described by HEMI_426. At this point they have cut off communication with us and I would be surprised, but happy, if that relationship ever improves.
So, now we are attempting to create our own freely distributable, creative commons licensed, game to distribute whenever anyone downloads ioquake3 that won't be "adults only" and won't have anything to do with OpenArena's direction. Until it is ready there are plenty of great games made with the ioquake3 engine and you can check them out here:
quite a few went to Treyarch to work on Spider-Man and then from there to other places within the game industry. You can keep track with the most public Loki developer on icculus.org, Ryan Gordon.
demos recorded on any 1.32 should work with ioquake3, you may need to run them with the demo command manually. I can't verify that they'll work or not with this android fork.
...is that people continue to purchase software for Windows and waste their time attempting to make it run perfectly in Linux with a Windows API reimplementation, pretendulator, or whatever you want to call it.
I've been using Linux for 10 years now. During that time I've seen several small business that I've supported with purchases rise with Linux on the desktop and fall as the whims of Linux users move towards pretendulation of Windows software.
As long as it is acceptable to ship a product for Windows without seeing a drop-off in sales, people will continue to develop for Windows instead of Linux. Do not buy Windows products if you want to see them in Linux.
Learn from the unions, buy software made for Linux native if you want more of it. Continue to support businesses who do not support you and see desktop support for your operating system dwindle.
It hasn't even been a working week even before the people who gave us great things like the GPL'd quake 1/2/3 source got jumped on for slighting you trolls.
Your comparison to World of Warcraft is ridiculous. Wine most certainly emulates windows' api and running environment. World of Warcraft runs natively on the macintosh, without using any sort of windows emulation, or wine, or any such thing. Call it a pretendulator if you want, it doesn't change the fact that it isn't native. Just like my icculus.org/quake3 project runs on windows, mac, linux, solaris, and more, natively, without windows emulation.
You have an interesting definition of emulation. From wikipedia: A software emulator allows computer programs to run on a platform (computer architecture and/or operating system) other than the one for which they were originally written.
Note the part about "operating system" emulation. Just like Gnu's Not Unix, Wine Is Not an Emulator. Both are just names, Wine most certainly is an Emulator, and Gnu's Not Unix when they can't pay for the name, but it sure is Unix otherwise.
Yes if you can find a good smaller company, no if you want to go through someone like, say, Microsoft.
Microsoft actually does their XBox QA through a seperate company created solely for the purposes of avoiding temp working lawsuits. I don't think I need to explain then how they treat their contractor QA staff. Of which I have been one in the past.
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I'm part of the team that works on ioquake3, the open source project that this ipad version is based on. This project (Beben III) has not contributed their changes back to ioquake3, or made them easily available for the public. It is extremely disappointing when bad players like this are given press and make money off of the backs of others.
Please do not spend your money on apps that are bad open-source contributors, and please do not give them press.
I founded the ioquake3 project with some friends in 2005.
The experience of working with the OpenArena project was similar to that described by HEMI_426. At this point they have cut off communication with us and I would be surprised, but happy, if that relationship ever improves.
So, now we are attempting to create our own freely distributable, creative commons licensed, game to distribute whenever anyone downloads ioquake3 that won't be "adults only" and won't have anything to do with OpenArena's direction. Until it is ready there are plenty of great games made with the ioquake3 engine and you can check them out here:
http://ioquake3.org/extras/derivative-games/
quite a few went to Treyarch to work on Spider-Man and then from there to other places within the game industry. You can keep track with the most public Loki developer on icculus.org, Ryan Gordon.
If anyone is interested I've created iodoom3 to follow on from the ioquake3 project my team put together.
Let me know what you'd like to see in a modernized Doom 3 Engine!
I am deeply disturbed that you got two laughs/year out of timedoctor.org
Thanks for using ioquake3 :)
demos recorded on any 1.32 should work with ioquake3, you may need to run them with the demo command manually. I can't verify that they'll work or not with this android fork.
...is that people continue to purchase software for Windows and waste their time attempting to make it run perfectly in Linux with a Windows API reimplementation, pretendulator, or whatever you want to call it.
I've been using Linux for 10 years now. During that time I've seen several small business that I've supported with purchases rise with Linux on the desktop and fall as the whims of Linux users move towards pretendulation of Windows software.
As long as it is acceptable to ship a product for Windows without seeing a drop-off in sales, people will continue to develop for Windows instead of Linux. Do not buy Windows products if you want to see them in Linux.
Learn from the unions, buy software made for Linux native if you want more of it. Continue to support businesses who do not support you and see desktop support for your operating system dwindle.
...go buy yourself a lisp machine and tell me that it is going to take off.
It was a dumb /joke/. Cry me a river.
the OS X dmg is a universal binary.
yeah I was kidding about the ads and queue, but I don't think I should have made that joke in the first place. heh.
The point is that it is the only place I could find to legitimately buy quake 3. Quite a few people I know have lost their Quake 3 disc or key.
Then you'd just need 25 drobos.
I really enjoy my sony ereader, once you use it you realize that the physical design is vastly superior to the kindle.
The user applied a hack before upgrading that altered the banner on the screen.
It hasn't even been a working week even before the people who gave us great things like the GPL'd quake 1/2/3 source got jumped on for slighting you trolls.
Urban Terror has always been a quake 3 mod. Though there were some mods for HL that had a similar heritage (the post action quake 2 fallout)
Thilo works on ioquake3 (which is my project), and World of Padman, and a STV: Elite Force game. Both of which are using ioquake3.
I like how the maroon talking over this is discussing that it is "compiling the kernel" as the fedora boot messages flow past.
It is also not a Red, or Green Ray Player. Also, neither the colors of Orange or Teal apply. It is, however, a Blu-Ray player.
Does not mean "now available".
Your comparison to World of Warcraft is ridiculous. Wine most certainly emulates windows' api and running environment. World of Warcraft runs natively on the macintosh, without using any sort of windows emulation, or wine, or any such thing. Call it a pretendulator if you want, it doesn't change the fact that it isn't native. Just like my icculus.org/quake3 project runs on windows, mac, linux, solaris, and more, natively, without windows emulation.
You have an interesting definition of emulation. From wikipedia:
A software emulator allows computer programs to run on a platform (computer architecture and/or operating system) other than the one for which they were originally written.
Note the part about "operating system" emulation. Just like Gnu's Not Unix, Wine Is Not an Emulator. Both are just names, Wine most certainly is an Emulator, and Gnu's Not Unix when they can't pay for the name, but it sure is Unix otherwise.
Yes if you can find a good smaller company, no if you want to go through someone like, say, Microsoft.
Microsoft actually does their XBox QA through a seperate company created solely for the purposes of avoiding temp working lawsuits. I don't think I need to explain then how they treat their contractor QA staff. Of which I have been one in the past.