[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Caleb Cushing]

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 <charles at idealso.com> 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 -- http://www.idealso.com
>



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Caleb Cushing
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