> Does any of the following ring a bell: Neverwinter Nights, Soldier of > Fortune, Deux Ex, Jagged Alliance 2, Descent 3, Heavy Metal FAKK 2, Kohan, > Rune, Railroad Tycoon 2, Sin, Shogo, Tribes 2, etcetc?
>How many of these are less then a year and a half plus old? Well, these are portings of games to Linux. As they were originally made for windows, of course at least some decent amount of time is necessary to do all the converting. 70% of the above run much better in Linux, of course. Oh, The Sims was already ported / is being ported too. > Consoles never crash? What's this that I hear everywhere about the XBox on > exposition on the different Toys'r'us around USA reading randomly from the > "CD drive", failing to output any sound, stopping abruptly with error > messages, etc? >It wasnt' the CD Drive failing. The demo cd's that they sent out were bad >burns. I have a friend who manages an EB and he said that a whole batch of >the CD's were bad, causing the problem to be huge. Not a software glitch >(as far as coding). Wrong. Read the following: http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/news/news.pl?y=2001&m=10&nid=22-159.db Quoting some interesting parts: "The Xbox unit had no disc inside and displayed a menu screen to access the hard drive and CD player. But customers who tried to navigate through menus could do little else but wait while the machine tried to load the next menu " "An Xbox unit in Software Etc. store in Sioux Falls, SD was reported to skip, freeze, and have audio problems" "Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units" In conclusion, here's the clash of the two following axioms: "Consoles don't crash" and "Everything that Microsoft does is buggy" :) Pedro R. Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] "So long, and thanks for all the fish" http://www.salvador-caetano.pt http://www.globalshop.pt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
