[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Caleb Cushing]

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.

On 5/2/07, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>
>


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Caleb Cushing
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