[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Richard Houser]

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 http://www.planeshift.it.

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 <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
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13371&highlight=linux 
> 
> 
> 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.
>