On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Damien Miller wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > With linux, it will say something along the lines of "works with Redhat
> > > 6.2". (take a look at many CAD packages, for example - they are _not_ very
> > > graphics intensive). Games are even trickier. I have not bought a single
> > > Loki game for this reason: once I upgrade to new libraries or X it will be
> > > dead weight. And if it crashes because of incompatibility there is little
> > > I can do to fix it. (And no, I am not going to waddle thru machine code to
> > > fix something I paid money for).
> >
> > That's just not true. I still run the quake2 binary release which I first
> > used on Redhat 5.something on Redhat 7.1. Quake3 runs better on my Redhat
> > Frankenstein Roswell/Rawhide workstation than it did on Redhat 6.2.
> >
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> I was mostly concerned about Civ III and Might and Magic. Admittedly,
> (after taking another look now) the recommendations about using special
> XFree drivers are not there anymore. Perhaps, I'll reconsider and buy
> some (at least Might and Magic). The windows requirement that I keep the
> CD in is pretty lame: CDs add to my backpack weight considerably, and,
> besides, what's the full install for ?
>
> On the other hand, perhaps, I should give a try to writing a game engine
> myself.
>
And the other app that always worked for me is Maple. Though I would have
preferred to have source.
Vladimir Dergachev
> Vladimir Dergachev
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> > -d
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