Comments on: Osmos Released!

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:46:49 +0000

>from that comment alone you have a lot to learn:

Oh man, how clever you are!

>why don’t you go bug id software for not giving us the source code to say quake 4 eh?

Do you think id are gods and can’t be wrong? They are selling their engine and getting some money from it, but it doesn’t make their business more ethical.

They are selling the blob to a people all around the world and this is not ethical. People have the right to control their computers and developers of proprietary software are taking away this freedom.

Here’s a better question: would you refuse to buy a game if you liked it and found out that its source code is freely available?

BTW, go learn here now: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/ryzom-free-software . (This is MMORPG, but anyways…)

By: liamdawe

liamdawe — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:17:11 +0000

@sinister13 from that comment alone you have a lot to learn, now why don’t you go bug id software for not giving us the source code to say quake 4 eh?

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:38:57 +0000

>ah the oddness of people thinking everything under the sun needs to be open source, it’s a commercial game, go figure

How on earth the free (as in freedom) source code would prevent it to be commercial?

By: liamdawe

liamdawe — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:50:09 +0000

@sinister13 ah the oddness of people thinking everything under the sun needs to be open source, it’s a commercial game, go figure

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:15:15 +0000

>Ahh, the mysteries of Linux audio! ;-) The mysteries of odd people, hiding their source code, so that people can't just fix/rebuild it if needed. >In any case, glad you managed to get it working somehow! Sounds like a mockery.

By: mealworms

mealworms — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:56:20 +0000

Hi torturedutopian,

That error is a sign that PulseAudio is misconfigured on your machine (which likely has something to do with you need to run Osmos in aoss). I’ve added config settings to Osmos that work around audio issues like this; for details, please visit the FAQ and forums at our website.

Thanks!
Dave
Hemisphere Games

By: torturedutopian

torturedutopian — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:11 +0000

BTW I also get this on the terminal, even when sound works: bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

By: torturedutopian

torturedutopian — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:59:46 +0000

Hi !

I had to lauch the game with “aoss OsmosDemo” in order to get the sound to work :-)
(Ubuntu 10.04, Pulseaudio server uninstalled)

By: Agrajag

Agrajag — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:48:35 +0000

I actually grabbed the tarball, because I’ve found it’s usually the easiest way to go with stuff like games, or really most non-distro-provided packages… I’m on CentOS 5.4, so not exactly your bleeding edge gaming distro… ;-) That’s surely why the system libraries are behind the times… (The libvorbis version is 1.1.2, plus whatever patches Red Hat has backported, so that explains the missing ov_fopen()…)

By: mealworms

mealworms — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:49:19 +0000

Hey Agrajag,

Dave Burke from Hemisphere Games here (the creators of Osmos).

As you saw, Agrajag, the Osmos .deb and .rpms do indeed include package dependency mojo; Osmos requires libvorbisfile.so.3. I’m not sure why your libvorbisfile is missing ov_fopen, it’s been there since v1.2.0 of that lib (early 2007 sometime). In any case, glad you managed to get it working somehow!

Ahh, the mysteries of Linux audio! ;-)

Thanks for supporting Linux gaming everyone! We hope the Linux version of Osmos does well enough that we can continue to port our games to the platform in the future.

Happy Osmoting all,
Dave