[freespace2] [OT] FS2_open

[Taylor Richards]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:34 +0200, Mihai Rusu wrote:
> Sorry if the following text is offtopic, please direct me to the proper 
> mailing list, thanks!

http://scp.indiegames.us is the main SCP website and has links to
downloads and forums.  The main SCP forum is at HLP and you can get the
link to it from the Links section on the SCP site.

> I have seen lots of replies in here that bugs and features are added into 
> FS2_open. Please tell me if a fs1/fs2 linux player as me should switch to 
> fs2_open ? More specifically :

You can still use both, I do.  FS2_Open does not have to pure FS1 build
that the icculus.org project does but there is a mod available which
ports the FS1 ships/weapons/etc. to the FS2 engine.  Whatever the
icculus.org project is missing capability wise though so is FS2_Open.  I
work on both projects so when the missing sound code and anything is
done then both projects will get it.

> 1. if it's opensource and compiles under Linux (supported under Linux)

Not yet but really soon.  Like the icculus.org Freespace2 project
FS2_Open will compile and run under Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Linux/x86_64
and OSX.  You can find that older, less complete, Linux versions are
available but I recommend waiting.  All of the Linux changes are getting
merged into CVS now and should be ready next week.  You can find the CVS
information on the SCP site.

> 2. where from to download the sources and a small build tutorial if there 
> is none available somewhere else

See SCP website above.


Taylor

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Taylor Richards <taylor at icculus.org>