On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:03:23 -0500
Mario Lombardo <mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> 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
Actually, I've seen a few games that already do this, one being Frozen Bubble ( http://www.frozen-bubble.org ). It's not the most performance-demanding game, but it demonstrates the concept. There's also a distribution ( http://movix.sf.net ) that does a similar thing for movies/video files.
Levi
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