On Friday 14 September 2007 11:59, Vik Olliver wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:10 +1200, Brenda Wallace wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:26:57 Wesley Parish wrote: > > > Well, FWIW, I can verify that qemu running MS Win98 will run Doom. > > > > Isn't DOOM opensource anyways? Doom runs on my ipod nano happily too. > > The Doom engine is open source, as is the map designer. The original WAD
GPL. It was first released under a rather interesting "non-commercial" license, then Carmack etc, saw the light and released it under the GPL. It's one of the most commonly used games engines now. (At least by non-professional games developers.) I haven't tried Quake on MS Win98 in qemu, though, and I haven't tried any of the Linux Quakes either. > file of maps etc. is not as far as I know. I'm told it is available from > dodgy FTP sites in Poland and Russia but I haven't checked. Nor have I. I look for the Bit Bytes discs at various shops - they're usually $9.95 to $49.95 or thereabouts. But there's also freewad and sourceforge, and they're quite different. The monsters are something else, althogether! > > Vik :v) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
