Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:18:08 +1100 From: "Jacob A. Hart" <c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What wouldn't you use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <384C9890.75900DA4@atlas.newcastle.edu.au>
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > I'm trying to produce a list of applications you'd use FreeBSD for, and, > > for balance, I need a list of types of applications that FreeBSD doesn't > > cut it at yet. > > Games? Or were you wanting more useful things? > FreeBSD is *easily* as good a gaming platform as Linux -- we're equivalent in everything but mindshare. Using Linux ABI compatibility I've played the following games: Quake II (v3.20) Quake III Arena (demo test) Unreal Tournament (demo v348) Unreal Tournament (Final retail v400) And I'd place money on these working: Quake I Heretic II Civilization: Call To Power Quake III Arena (Final) I think it's pretty safe to assume that most Linux games should work perfectly under FreeBSD, provided they don't become dependant on Linux specific devices that we don't support yet (i.e. /dev/3dfx). -jake (obituary) Powered by FreeBSD c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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