From: <vo...@mi...> - 2001-10-03 02:12:11
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 vo...@mi... wrote: > > > With linux, it will say something along the lines of "works with Redhat > > 6.2". (take a look at many CAD packages, for example - they are _not_ very > > graphics intensive). Games are even trickier. I have not bought a single > > Loki game for this reason: once I upgrade to new libraries or X it will be > > dead weight. And if it crashes because of incompatibility there is little > > I can do to fix it. (And no, I am not going to waddle thru machine code to > > fix something I paid money for). > > That's just not true. I still run the quake2 binary release which I first > used on Redhat 5.something on Redhat 7.1. Quake3 runs better on my Redhat > Frankenstein Roswell/Rawhide workstation than it did on Redhat 6.2. > I was mostly concerned about Civ III and Might and Magic. Admittedly, (after taking another look now) the recommendations about using special XFree drivers are not there anymore. Perhaps, I'll reconsider and buy some (at least Might and Magic). The windows requirement that I keep the CD in is pretty lame: CDs add to my backpack weight considerably, and, besides, what's the full install for ? On the other hand, perhaps, I should give a try to writing a game engine myself. Vladimir Dergachev > -d > > -- > | Damien Miller <dj...@mi...> \ ``E-mail attachments are the poor man's > | http://www.mindrot.org / distributed filesystem'' - Dan Geer > |