-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:23:57AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > The code is a nightmare, the engine is dog slow, and for some reason the > > people who are still working on it seem to think that Quake should require > > about 20 megs of disk space, and that's just the engine itself. Somehow > > they managed to take a 1.4 meg ELF binary and make some 35 individual > > libraries out of it.. > > 20 MEGABYTES!?!??! Holy crapulence! In 1975, that much disk space > would have cost a fortune. Today, it costs about two cents. > (Literally, at a dollar a gigabyte, 20 MB == 0.02 GB == two cents.) > In two more years, it should cost about half a cent. > > I'll accept the rest of your complaints -- you're obviously a lot > closer to the code base than I am.
Well, http://icculus.org/twilight/ is a good alternative if I do say so myself. =) 0.2.00 was released last night in time for QExpo. - -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cogito eggo sum (I think therefore I am a waffle) <Dry-ice> I'll call qwest <Dry-ice> 24/7 tech <|Rain|> 00/0 informed tech -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3 iEYEARECAAYFAj8MW78ACgkQj/fXo9z52rNiZACeIEimUXQ/0p39yqrzBcCpYVvh gLUAoK0RBjfOpxiYVKB4RaA+Uoe6mBYo =Ozge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
