From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 22: 0:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20ED837B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaltorak@quake.com.au) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id efwaaaaa for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:00:11 +1000 Message-ID: <3AD53763.B2B2B38A@quake.com.au> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:04:35 +1000 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Mark Hittinger , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Games on FreeBSD References: <200104120134.UAA20957@freebsd.netcom.com> <3AD52A10.7997F8EA@quake.com.au> <20010411233302.A8789@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't know... I've never been much of a gamer. Prboom and quakeforge > do me just fine, and they both work fine on a PIII-733 with any video > card you can imagine. Remember, DOOM was designed in the 386/486 days, > and quake, well, I think the shareware CD folder says system > requirements are a 100MHz pentium. GlQuakeWorld... thats where its at... any game without OpenGL support is just crap :) > Well, that's my solution to the UNIX gaming problem: don't play games. I > wonder if WINE will run Flight Simulatory or Fury^3? Those games weren't > so bad, and they bring back memories. I thought I heard WINE was getting > DirectX support... Thats fine if you dont enjoy having fun, or you dont do any graphics work... But there are many uses for OpenGL and hardware acceleration in general, there are also lots of great games :) WINE has DirectX support now I think, its quite possible to play Half-Life under WINE on FreeBSD... But that dosent exactly the slove our card problem, which there are plenty of people wanting sloved over in the other thread! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message