[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Charles Ulrich]

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.

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Charles Ulrich
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