[ut2004] new ut2004 build

Dean Hamstead dean at bong.com.au
Mon Nov 7 22:27:18 EST 2005


even if they just release what they can (if they bought
software from other companies) then it wont be long
before the holes are filled.

the first BSD release was short quite a few little at&t
owned bits, but it wasnt long before that was fixed and
now we have freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dfbsd and others.

call me an open source bigot ;)

Dean

Spike wrote:
> Epic don't release source to any of their games it seems.
> Also UT2004 is too new to release any source to anyways.
> 
> I been hoping for the release of the source code to UT99 for a long
> time now and I don't see it ever happening, and this game is as old as
> Quake3Arena. It would be nice for the community to finally fix the
> remaining bugs in the Linux client and finally get that OSX client out
> the door as well. The lack of improvements to UT99 is just killing what
> is left of the community that still has some potential. (Cheating, etc)
> 
> -Bren
> 
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:06:10 +1100
> Dean Hamstead <dean at bong.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>is there any chance of a source release ala-quake
>>
>>doom, quake1,2 & 3 have all been well maintained by the community.
>>
>>all of them have been enhanced and run on more platforms than
>>ever before. whilst ID still maintains propriety copyright over
>>the game files, the engine has been saved from bitrot.
>>
>>
>>
>>Dean
>>
>>Spike wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think it will be too long before a new official UT2004 patch
>>>will be out. There's already a windows beta of 3362 floating around with
>>>fixes now. We can only hope. :-)
>>>
>>>-Bren
>>>
>>>On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:43:05 +1100
>>>Dean Hamstead <dean at bong.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>is there any chance ut2004 could be rebuilt on amd64 with the new
>>>>gcc. its made leaps and bounds in efficiency on this platform.
>>>>it would be nice if it was linked to newer library versions also.
>>>>
>>>>cheers
>>>>
>>>>Dean
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