Re: TI-H: [OT] Un-TI-Hardware@somegenerousperson.net
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Re: TI-H: [OT] Un-TI-Hardware@somegenerousperson.net
>Yes, the games were WRITTEN under Linux. That doesn't mean a thing.
>Because a
>DirectX - based game must run under DirectX, the final phase of the
>development is
>getting everything to work under that. Thatnk god that id knows of the
>pure power
>that is OpenGL.
>and the z80 is NOT a clone. It's a similar processor in terms of design,
>but they
>are not interchangable. Clone implies an exact copy. If that were the case,
>Intel could've just slashed prices on the 8080, and we'd never see a z80-based
>calculator.
Not alaways. The "Apple IIe" clone wasn't and didn't act like an AIIe,
just ran the software at full speed.
The orrigional IBM architecture isn't even in any clones today...
>And I know about the wonderful games available under Linux. But SQuake is a
>hack. Think about that. The code runs fine under Linux, but it was done by
>others. This is starting to change, but the main reason that many games
>exist for
>Linux is because people have hacked the original to pieces.
I like to run TTY quake...
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