That does honestly make me wonder. After all, Kitchen's family was very good about preserving his page and the games, I'm hoping someone kept Tom's stuff around. There was quite a lot of stuff he had going like the Evolution 3d engine and the like. Unfortunately it does seem that his stuff was thrown away which is sad indeed. Again, R.I.P Tom.
On 2/4/18, Shaun Everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah he really pushed for linux. > > It even got me talking with a friend who is a kde and kubuntu user on > his server and desktop and believes windows is a crappy os. > > I wish I could share his optimism. > > What got me interested though was that tom was thinking of writing his > linux distribution either that or some sort of universal os which could > run just about everything. > > I know he had some family issues but he was one of the first open devs > out there. > > He sholdered all the james north stuff mainly mota and raceway even > though he knew things were looking bad he was keen to try his best to > make it go. > > Now though thats all in limbo. > > He was closed to releasing another version of his trek game. > > He had another engine in the works. > > I do wander if any of his stuff was kept or where it is now, chances > someone could continue it or at least release what is there. > > > > > On 5/02/2018 8:16 a.m., Jack Falejjczyk wrote: >> Tom Ward was a well known developer of the games like the Tomb Hunter >> games, Star Trek Final Conflict, stuff like that, under the name USA >> Games. In addition of these quality games he was one of the moderators >> of this list as well as a very knowledgeable Linux expert, indeed one >> of the few in this community who advocated using Linux as a daily >> driver, pushing that movement forward as it were. Among other things, >> that's what he's notably remembered for, as well as being a >> well-respected person in general. >> >> On 2/4/18, Александр Епанешников <[email protected]> wrote: >>> sorry. I'm new here. judging by your words it was a good man. can you >>> tell >>> who he is in more detail? >>> >> >> >> > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118611): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118611 View All Messages In Topic (13): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/9803582 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/9803582/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
