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Where are the Good Open Source Games?
Kintaro:
The workaround would be a not-for-profit studio that works on donations and anybody can come in to record or whatever for free under the condition that they release the work freely.
Bands that are only small and local to an area still often will save their pennys to spend $800-$6,000 dollars (I have some friends in a small local band that spent $15,000 on their latest album) to rent a studio. This is because producers usually like to get paid and because equipment costs money.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---Legends is pretty cool. And I love playing a little bit of Chromium B.S.U. and Frozen Bubble.
And Wolfenstein 3D: Enemy Territory isn't Open Source, but it is free and awesome. Download them here:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/
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Legends looks a hell of a lot like Tribes 2 ... but that's for the better :D
themacuser:
--- Quote from: Orethrius ---...or FlightGear, for those among us who think Microsoft has the market cornered on flight simulators (I especially like the realtime updating map add-on - try THAT, FS!) :cool:
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MSFS is suckage anyway. It's incredibly unrealistic. The only reason people use it is the scenery and graphics are good. X-Plane is awesome - the graphics are catching up, and the realism is excellent.
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---bzflag is one kick-ass free game. Can't wait to get hardware acceleration (Christmas probably) so I can play it some more.
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I agree, I've been playing BZFlag for over a year now, and it is one of the best games I have ever played, the graphics are good and simple and the gameplay is very addictive and fun. :)
Hardware Acceleration in Linux - Can anyone say Nvidia?
What graphics card are you looking to get pP? :)
piratePenguin:
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Hardware Acceleration in Linux - Can anyone say Nvidia?
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NVIDIA cards have good hardware acceleration with the non-free NVIDIA driver. However, NVIDIA doesn't release much documentation for a third party (the DRI guys) to write a free driver with 3D hardware acceleration.
I already have an on-board GeForce 4 MX, which would work fine for bzflag and anything else I run if I installed the non-free NVIDIA driver, which I won't, because I have a not-too-bad and more-exciting alternative:
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What graphics card are you looking to get pP? :)
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Probably an ATi radeon 9700 or 9800 Pro, with this experimental free driver. My brother already has a 9800 Pro so I can borrow that and make sure I can play bzflag in it before I buy my own card.
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