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Re: Games on Linux?



Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:57:32AM -0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> > It is soooooo sucky that you get so many good games for windows like Half
> > Life and Diablo II and very few for Linux. I for one would like to see more
> > games supporting the linux os. I obviously wouldn't expect Microsoft to
> > release Age of Empires (a good game) for the linux os but would like
> > companies like Blizzard and Valve to put a little more effort into the linux
> > OS.

So let them know with a supportive email.

> It would be soooo easy on most cases if they just used OpenGL and not Direct3D.
> That's why Quake III runs so well under X and nonOpenGL games are so difficult
> to port...
> 
> I have absolutelly no idea why anyone would use Direct3D instead of OpenGL
> but then that's my POV.. :)

Well, since the Xbox's XDK is essentially DirectX 8, a game written
with DX8 is trivially easy to port to the Xbox.  That's one reason...

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>



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