AW: [bf1942] Where can i DL

[Mike Palmer]

I can imagine this game might be somewhat of a headach for ryan (and 
team). (maybe not) But it seems like this game has a large selection of 
memory bugs and such for you to choose from. I'd imagine they'd be 
porting it without the dice bugs in it which would take longer than 
usual every time they merge the code from dice.

I wonder if we could have ryan (and team) patch it and let dice port 
back to windows... ;)

Mike

Bill Wood wrote:

>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:
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>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.
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>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. 
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>>-----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
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>>roger wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:11, Don Kukral wrote:
>>>Who said that signing a petition will cause an action as 
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>>somebody using 
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>>>a baseball bat on EA's knee's?  I do not see a petition as 
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>>being either 
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>>>politically nor publically harmful.
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>>>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.
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>>>Do you live in a communist country that hinders free speech 
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>>or what???
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>>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.
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>>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
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