From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 24 5:20:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B513637B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 05:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vega.vega.com (root@h182.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.182]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10561; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:20:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9OCKRU00787; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:20:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3BD6B288.87CD6F2@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:22:32 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johann Visagie Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Testers required: games/newkind References: <20011024104301.I92937@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johann Visagie wrote: > > I've just committed a somewhat quick-and-dirty port (games/newkind) of > "Elite - The New Kind", a remake of the classic 8-bit game "Elite" by > Bell & Braben. (Still considered by many to be one of the greatest > games of all time). > > Now... my problem: I don't currently have access to any FreeBSD boxes > which are configured as workstations. I can verify that the port > builds, runs, and displays (S-L-O-W-L-Y) via a remote win32-based X > server, but that's about it. I have no idea whether it runs at playable > speed on a local XFree86 server if you have decent graphics hardware, or > whether the sound even works in the first place! > > If there's anyone out there who'd like to test the port, I'd be most > grateful for any feedback - positive or negative. > > Note that you can alter some parameters which should impact performance > in ${PREFIX}/share/newkind/newkind.cfg Works fine here (P133 running 5-CURRENT/XFree86-4.0.x). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message