Let's think about this. mmorpg, dialup like bandwidth.... yeah... let's leave anything that requires internet to play out. now if this can be played on a LAN. or if it just needs a few seconds to authenticate a license. I'm all for that. <div>On 5/2/07, Richard Houser <<a href="mailto:rick@divinesymphony.net">rick@divinesymphony.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> As far as MMORPGs go, there is a partially open source one called Planeshift in the works.  The last time I looked, the graphics were roughly on par with EQ2, but the game engine itself was still getting a fair amount of work and combat capabilities had just been added to the game.  The code was a common license like the GPL, but the artwork, levels, and rules were all a license that restricts that content to that game. I think the url was <a href="http://www.planeshift.it">http://www.planeshift.it </a>. Thomas Hruska wrote: > Caleb Cushing wrote: >> some of the games are considered freeware now. and I think doom is open >> source. regardless collector's edition is cheap and I have a copy. and >> back >> then I don't think they were licensing per cpu so one license should be >> enough for the terminal server. >> >> On 5/2/07, Charles Ulrich <<a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com"> charles@idealso.com</a>> wrote: >>> >>> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:13, Caleb Cushing wrote: >>> > is openquake 3d? if not would it matter? I'm not sure doom is >>> > considered 3d. >>> >>> All modern incarnations of the Quake engine are OpenGL. >>> >>> Doom is considered 2.5D, but the original at least, uses its own >>> software rendering engine so 2D performance is all you need. The >>> problem even with running Doom on the terminal server is that you're >>> still pushing massive screen updates to the terminals. (And Doom is >>> still copyrighted and thus needs licenses.) >>> >>> > anyways there have been requests for lots of games >>> > that could easily be on the terminal server. like stuff in dos >>> > emulators. >>> >>> Most decent DOS games are still copyrighted too, so even though they >>> might run fine on terminals, they still need licenses. >>> >>> That said, there are a number of decent games that can be run on the >>> terminal server that aren't graphics-intensive. FreeCiv, gtetrinet, and >>> Frozen Bubble come to mind. Many Win32 freeware games probably run fine >>> in WINE. >>> >>> -- >>> Charles Ulrich >>> Ideal Solution, LLC -- <a href="http://www.idealso.com">http://www.idealso.com</a> > > I've been playing Last Chaos off and on for a while.  Good game to play > just before going to sleep.  Apparently people have gotten it to work > under Wine: > > <a href="http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13371&highlight=linux">http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13371&highlight=linux </a> > > > Basically, a free MMORPG for Linux via emulation and some fiddling with > the latest Wine sources.  It is kind of boring as far as games go - but > that's what makes it perfect for going to sleep.  I have no idea how it > stacks up against WoW, but it is free. > > Just a thought. > </blockquote></div> -- Caleb Cushing