[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Paul Scollon]

Is HL not open-source already? If not, then how come there are so many
homemade mods for it out there?

"I'm thinking to start with, maybe Unreal Tournament and bzflag."

Screw that! Quake3 is your only sensible option for a game server. But I
would say that, I work for Quake3Stuff.com :)

Paul Scollon aka RawShark

----- Original Message -----
From: Daire Garvey <daire at garvey.ie.eu.org>
To: John P . Looney <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [ILUG] games.linux.ie


> Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 12:16:13 PM, you wrote:
>
> JPL>  Hmm. There are a lot of Linux admins refusing to run halflife
servers,
> JPL> on account of no Linux client port. Is this a good idea, or cutting
off
> JPL> your nose, to spite your face ?
>
> Definately. The game is over 2 years old now, they can hardly expect
> Valve to sort them out with a client at this stage. Open-sourcing
> Half-Life would be nice, but they still make an awful lot of money
> from the game, and the implications it would have for the already
> serious cheating situation would be too horrible to contemplate imho.
> :)
>
> If you're interested in setting up a HL server let me know, I run a
> couple myself for clan training/matches.
>
> D.
>
> --
> I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my
absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. [Brendan Behan]
>
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