From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 9 13:27: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769A237B422 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA05230 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:27:01 -0400 From: Mathew KANNER To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD better for games Message-ID: <20000909162701.A1095@cs.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, I found the following at news.lokigames.com in their loki.gamessc3k newsgroup. I've snipped some of the message. |Path: news.lokigames.com!not-for-mail |From: Sam Lantinga |Newsgroups: loki.games.sc3k |Subject: Re: demo woes |Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 07:57:23 -0700 |Organization: Loki Entertainment Software |Lines: 38 |Message-ID: <39B7ACD3.ED1A217E@lokigames.com> |References: <39B70B6D.8D5C3C8@cheek.com> |NNTP-Posting-Host: user94.lokigames.com |Mime-Version: 1.0 |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit |X-Trace: ftp.lokigames.com 968338643 31324 63.80.144.94 (7 Sep 2000 14:57:23 GMT) |X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@lokigames.com |NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Sep 2000 14:57:23 GMT |X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) |X-Accept-Language: en |Xref: news.lokigames.com loki.games.sc3k:151 [...] |> 2] doesn't run on caldera LTP with glibc 2.1.91. installs fine but |> crashes before the welcome screen pops up. i can give details if |> this doesn't repro for you at loki. this won't keep me from buying | | |Darn glibc. That bites us with many dynamically linked games. |We'll see what we can do, but it seems that every new release of libc |breaks backwards compatibility. It's ironic, but our games run more |consistently on FreeBSD boxes because of this. [...] |See ya! |-- | -Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software -- Mathew Kanner SOCS McGill University Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message