Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:09:48 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, Mark Hittinger <bugs@freebsd.netcom.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Games on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010412000948.C8789@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AD53763.B2B2B38A@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:04:35PM %2B1000 References: <200104120134.UAA20957@freebsd.netcom.com> <3AD52A10.7997F8EA@quake.com.au> <20010411233302.A8789@cec.wustl.edu> <3AD53763.B2B2B38A@quake.com.au>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:04:35PM +1000, Kal Torak wrote: > > I don't know... I've never been much of a gamer. Prboom and quakeforge > > do me just fine, and they both work fine on a PIII-733 with any video > > card you can imagine. Remember, DOOM was designed in the 386/486 days, > > and quake, well, I think the shareware CD folder says system > > requirements are a 100MHz pentium. > > GlQuakeWorld... thats where its at... any game without OpenGL support is > just crap :) > > > Well, that's my solution to the UNIX gaming problem: don't play games. I > > wonder if WINE will run Flight Simulatory or Fury^3? Those games weren't > > so bad, and they bring back memories. I thought I heard WINE was getting > > DirectX support... > > Thats fine if you dont enjoy having fun, or you dont do any graphics work... > But there are many uses for OpenGL and hardware acceleration in general, > there are also lots of great games :) > > WINE has DirectX support now I think, its quite possible to play Half-Life > under WINE on FreeBSD... But that dosent exactly the slove our card problem, > which there are plenty of people wanting sloved over in the other thread! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Who said I don't have any fun? I just said I don't play PC games. I understand the card problem... I was doing a classic "nyah nyah" post to tell all of you that I don't have the problem. :) Has anybody offered to sign an NDA with nVidia to write a binary-only driver for FreeBSD? Everybody should ask around amongst all the good FreeBSD hackers, to see if one of them would be willing to do so. After all, this isn't Linux, and we aren't governed by RMS. I wouldn't expect this to be a religious concern about binary-only code, as long as it works, and it works well. Then you all can be happy with your big fancy 3D cards... not like the phosphor on a CRT is thick enough to be an effect 3D display though. :p I'd offer to write the driver, but I am limited by two things: 1) I don't have a card, so I have no incentive to write the driver and no means to test it. 2) My biggest C programs are ~1000 lines long, dedicated to solving mathematical problems, and DEFINITELY not stable enough to be part of any OS kernel except Windows. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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