Games support..

Mikael Nykvist (viper@ludd.luth.se)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:30:54 +0200 (MET DST)


Howdy ppl!

Below is an edited irclog..

<iddt> => (Dave Taylor, ID Software and Crack Dot Com)
> iddt: => me asking questions..
mint => Thats me!

<Start of IRClog>
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> iddt: Ofcourse I wouldnt say no to a Linux/Alpha svgalib version either.. ;)
<iddt> mint, I wouldn't say no to an Alpha. It's a pretty simple mechanism.
SGI sent us an Indigo 2 so we did an SGI port. Send us an Alpha and..
> iddt: You wont settle for an account on my machine? =)
> iddt: And I thought you already have an alpha? Just install Linux on it.. ;)
<iddt> mint, best way to make this happen is to get together with some friends
and mail a group letter to DEC, maybe post stuff, and tell 'em we need to
see a Linux/Alpha port. They'll get the message, contact us, and we'll
take it from there.
<iddt> mint, that's at id in a different city. abuse is written by crack.
> iddt: How about id and Quake? =)
<iddt> mint, yeah i've already done an alpha port. it runs rather well.
> iddt: Sure? OSF1 I asume?
<iddt> yes
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<End of IRClog>

Summary:

Quake : OSF1 port. Will hopefully run under Linux/Alpha
Abuse: Linux/x86 beta out today.
If we want an Linux/alpha port we need to persuade dec to support
them..

So dec guys, what do you think?

Even hackers needs to play sometimes.. ;)

/Mikael

-- 
Mikael Nykvist, viper@ludd.luth.se
Running Linux/Alpha at 233Mhz!!!. http://www.ludd.luth.se/~viper/