I just wanted to admit that OGP is not an option for gamers. I think it's good project for server market but gamers are left only with nvidia and ATI. However on OGP wiki they say something about increasing performance. If some day I will be able to play modern games with moderate performace, I'll buy it.
As you said, Enemy Territory is exception. So why not create all games for Linux like Enemy Territory? ID software shows that it is possible to create games that are independent of distribution and libraries. They just bundle their own versions of libraries (not many needed). If someone wants to have bleeding-edge version of library he can just copy it to the game folder.
It would be enough if game developers created versions only for popular distros like Ubuntu or SUSE because guys from e.g. Gentoo know how to tailor the game to fit their distro. I think that bigger problem with linux gaming is DirectX. As everybody know it runs only on Windows. Many developing studios have programmers only knowing DirectX. If they started using OpenGL that is portable the problem with Linux gaming would be much easier to solve.
But when looking on Wine it seems to get more and more promising. Their implementation of DirectX on top of OpenGL seems to gain momentum. They have managed to run e.g. Oblivion (with some glitches, but It's new and demanding game) and they continue active development.
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Hey, but what with GPLFlash (http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/)? After it's release we will not have to bother about some crappy EULA. GPLFlash aims full compatibility with Flash7 and because it's GPLed it could be used even in your toaster.
Did you know that Henry Ford designed car that was working on and made of products created out of cannabis, but his experimental plantations grown for several years were destoryed
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A friend of mine has created a patch for keymaps in polish that allows to make polish characters. If you would like to take it just write on gg (3455729) or jabber (mikom@chrome.pl)
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So much for using egg scrambling as analogue to hash functions.
Judge presiding over this case - William Alsup. The one who threw away Oracle Java APIs lawsuit agains Google.
I just wanted to admit that OGP is not an option for gamers. I think it's good project for server market but gamers are left only with nvidia and ATI. However on OGP wiki they say something about increasing performance. If some day I will be able to play modern games with moderate performace, I'll buy it.
The Open Graphics Project aims at 20-30 fps in Quake 3
Eee, he meant that his firefox crashed 3 times in a row
As you said, Enemy Territory is exception. So why not create all games for Linux like Enemy Territory? ID software shows that it is possible to create games that are independent of distribution and libraries. They just bundle their own versions of libraries (not many needed). If someone wants to have bleeding-edge version of library he can just copy it to the game folder.
It would be enough if game developers created versions only for popular distros like Ubuntu or SUSE because guys from e.g. Gentoo know how to tailor the game to fit their distro. I think that bigger problem with linux gaming is DirectX. As everybody know it runs only on Windows. Many developing studios have programmers only knowing DirectX. If they started using OpenGL that is portable the problem with Linux gaming would be much easier to solve. But when looking on Wine it seems to get more and more promising. Their implementation of DirectX on top of OpenGL seems to gain momentum. They have managed to run e.g. Oblivion (with some glitches, but It's new and demanding game) and they continue active development.
BSD is dead!
I pity that fool whose name messes my firefox live bookmark.
With Futurama it may be a bith harder.
As i said lower, there ise GPLFlash, GPLed flash player which you can put into your toaster http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
Hey, but what with GPLFlash (http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/)? After it's release we will not have to bother about some crappy EULA. GPLFlash aims full compatibility with Flash7 and because it's GPLed it could be used even in your toaster.
You are sure? So why there are so many games that use only DirectX? Isn't it standard for most of game developers?
Did you know that Henry Ford designed car that was working on and made of products created out of cannabis, but his experimental plantations grown for several years were destoryed
A friend of mine has created a patch for keymaps in polish that allows to make polish characters. If you would like to take it just write on gg (3455729) or jabber (mikom@chrome.pl)
I would be scared a bit about putting my computer into such case. You know that without ass-bumpers it could explode?