AW: [bf1942] Where can i DL

[Bill Wood]

Don, I doubt that many gamers walking in to their local store to buy a
game give much consideration to how or if there will be servers
available to support their gaming. EA certainly made no promices on the
box for Linux servers, Windows servers, or any other kind of servers for
that matter. They did, however promice a Linux server on their official
website, www.battlefield1942.com and gave a status in five of their
community update that I was able to locate:

http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_m
essage_02.jsp
Linux server
Still being debugged. This is taking longer than we expected. You can
imagine the process...run server, crash, fix, run server, crash, fix...
etc. 

http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_m
essage_03.jsp
Linux Server
Still in debug mode. We're working as quickly as possible to get this
out to you... so please bear with us. 

http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_m
essage_04.jsp
LINUX SERVER
This is still being debugged. We've got a nasty bug with client
connections being detected. Once that's out of the way we'll go into
full beta testing with the Linux server. 

http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_m
essage_05.jsp
Linux Server Update
We're in beta testing on the linux standalone server. We're finding some
nasty bugs, you can expect to see this as soon as we get those issues
cleaned up.

http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_m
essage_06.jsp
Linux Server
The Linux Server has hit a snag. the 1.2 patch. We need to integrate the
fixes from the 1.2 patch into it prior to release. So, expect it to lag
a bit behind the release of the 1.2 patch.

You'll notice that there has been no mention since and we're up to
/community_message_16.jsp.

By the way, RTR does not work with the Linux 1.3 server, it causes
clients to crash during authentication. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Kukral [mailto:dk at donkeypit.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 9:17 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: AW: [bf1942] Where can i DL
> 
> 
> roger wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:11, Don Kukral wrote:
> >Who said that signing a petition will cause an action as 
> somebody using 
> >a baseball bat on EA's knee's?  I do not see a petition as 
> being either 
> >politically nor publically harmful.
> >
> >I think you're looking at the issue wrong.  If a large party signs a 
> >petition or a complaint about something and people actually take the 
> >time to do something, most people are sometimes surprised by the 
> >response and may actually fix something.
> >
> >Do you live in a communist country that hinders free speech 
> or what???
> >
> 
> Point taken. :)  It just seems that people expect Linux 
> support.  Which 
> is always good but nothing was promised when they bought the 
> game.  No 
> where on the box or the documentation does it says there is a support 
> for Linux.  And the statement about RTR not working was just 
> plain false 
> and I'd hate to have people go sign the petition based on 
> misinformation.
> 
> Anyways ... It looks like there might have been some technical 
> difficulties.  So, hopefully we'll have a new build SOON.  
> http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus
> 
> 
>