On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:24:21PM -0500, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Maybe they will! That would be great. But I just don't see any > > actual effort out there, and it's been possible for a long time now. > > What good is wasting the effort for a free set of datafiles for > something that was binary-only? Having the source means they can > understand the game better, and that it will be ported to more > platforms and will be _free_. This only recently happened.
Quake and doom have been released for ages. I am not aware of any way to play them without using non-free data files. There was a group that was trying to put together free data for Quake, but I don't think they're close to having something usable yet. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "...drums...drums in the deep!" | | J. R. R. Tolkien | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/
