I was having a discussion once with Ronan about game developers
including a cut-up distribution strictly for gaming so that the
consumer would only need an x86 or whatever hardware platform to play
the game. What if game developers got together and picked their
favorite APIs, etc and put them on a bootable CD and made their own
distribution with all of the performance tweaks for multimedia that
most of the mainstream Linux distribution publishers miss? I believe
that would satisfy both the developer and consumer audience. A full
running operating game environment and game in a box! They could
bundle some proprietary software in the box as well as the game
itself, so the only way to get the update on, let's say, The
LingamerOS would be to buy the latest games that included
it...something like that. The CD would deposit some swap files on
the HD (FAT, ext2, reiserfs, NTFS, HFS, or whatever) and use the
adequate RAM of these days (256MB and up) to run the gameOS w/o any
performance hit as to not being natively installed on the hard disk.
Then, consumers would have the option of selecting it as a dual boot.
Anybody's thoughts?
/mario
>On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:45, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>> Ronald, I've never heard of such a product (the $150 one). I am very
>> interested if you can show us a link or two. I'm going to dig into
>> http://www.google.com/linux to see what I can find. I'll post if I
>> do. From what I understand previously about windows versus X, I hear
>> that's true, but I'm not convinced now that I've heard Ian's plee.
>> Hmmmm.
>
>Transgaming's WineX product will run many Microsoft based DirectX games.
>Unfortunately, it also incurs a 30-50% speed penalty. If you're really
>interested in Windows gaming, I still recommend a dual-boot workstation for
>the time being.
>
>> Here's something cool I've found DirectFB. Looks pretty (and promising?).
>> http://www.livingroomlinux.com/
>
>Wow. Yeah, that project has come along. Unfortunately (?), it's Yet Another
>API.. If there were One True Gaming API for Linux, many things would be
>better. At the moment, SDL probably comes the closest to a "standard" gaming
>development API.
>
>> Here's a gamemaker that's advocating support for Linux (Neverwinter
>> Nights). This seems like a first to me. I've never seen a full
>> production underway for a Linux game yet; except ID with Doom &
>> Quake. Anybody else?
>> http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
>
>Unreal Tournament 2003 was just released with Linux support. New games come
>out on a regular basis. http://linuxgames.com is a good place to check for
>them (I hate their new theme though).
>
>There are new games coming out with Linux support due largely in part to the
>developers using Linux as their coding/development environment. When
>developing a game engine, it helps if your dev box doesn't need to be
>rebooted every 15 minutes.
>
>The viability of Linux as a gaming platform isn't a technological hurdle. It's
>a marketspace problem. How many Linux gamers are there vs how many Microsoft
>PC owners that buy games and never really play them? The numbers are
>staggering - Linux is not the reason for the multi-billion dollar gaming
>market, it's that simple.
>
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