Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: bmk@dtr.com To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <199602282034.MAA01666@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <2596.825529991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 28, 96 09:53:11 am
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> > Fine , arrange it . I like to go "down" fighting not standing down. > Well, that's generally an admirable strategy for charging up San Juan > hill (if you're Teddy Rosevelt, anyway) but I don't think that it's > going to buy us anything with ID. I will, nonetheless, send a message > to Dave Taylor asking him to publically clarify their position on > Quake in this newsgroup. > In the meantime, I think the strategy most likely to get positive > results is to get folks to hack on the ELF emulation. The NetBSD camp > certainly seems to be getting good results with that, and I wouldn't > even be surprised to hear they got sound working at some point soon. > They've been ahead in the emulation arena for some time now, and if we > should be feeling bad about anything, it's that. Agreed. > > If they don't make port for FreeBSD can you remove the stuff from > > the ftp.cdrom.com site. This is my thinking they are so in love with [snip] Anybody that thinks this has even a snowball's chance in hell of doing anything constructive, I direct your attention to ftp.idsoftware.com. They already mirror (what appears to be) all of ftp.cdrom.com's id-related stuff.
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