January 23rd, 2003 by Alkini
To all who whined about a server-but-no-client port of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (*cough*dan*cough*), here’s some news for you…
On day two of LWCE, the icculus.org guys have announced their secondsurprise: they have a native MoH:AA client running in Linux.There’s no news on the specific plans to release this to the public. Flame away.
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January 23rd, 2003 at 12:46 pm
flame?
January 23rd, 2003 at 12:48 pm
Maybe TransGaming will back off on their pre-announement stating this is one of their active targets for WineX 3.0. If not, then they are backing off of their promises to not undercut the native game arena (something they’re already tacitly doing by hosting forums for winex with RTCW, Quake3, and other games with native ports).
January 23rd, 2003 at 1:00 pm
http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?id=414322&nc=1043347463&gameref=104&referrer=dolson
January 23rd, 2003 at 2:04 pm
Just bought ut2003 and regret it,i played it and got bored running back and forth, I have 3d shooters coming out of my ears, allready purchased the serious sam series as it stands out because of its excellent coop multiplayer and waves of impossible waves of enemies ([i] the niece and nephew are gaga over it[/i] :), and.. [b] unlike [/b]any other shooter out there im actually looking forward to number 3 in the series. Wont be looking at this one at all.
All the same kudo’s to this guy he’s doing a lot for the linux gaming world indeed, way to go buddy.
Gimme, gimme some decent multiplayer racing games
( i don’t need a big gun i can live with the fact of having a small d**k :)
January 23rd, 2003 at 2:05 pm
…but I sure would like a native BF1942 client!
January 23rd, 2003 at 2:07 pm
This would be an excellent port and another game that TG is supposedly working on. Having this one native too would probably really hurt TG’s release of WineX3
January 23rd, 2003 at 3:18 pm
I know I’m guilty of being an ass about the server only port, but this really brightens my day. I’m also impressed that EA is considering linux client ports. This is good.
Thanks to Icculus and Co.
January 23rd, 2003 at 4:34 pm
Is there going to be a separate Linux release, or is this going to be downloadable for the Windows game? Personally, I’d much rather have it as a downloadable as I can get the game for about $20-30 nowadays. Another thing, is the Spearhead expansion supported?
January 23rd, 2003 at 4:34 pm
From the looks of it, icculus ported the client on the side, but EA didn’t request it (my guess). Since it’s done, perhaps EA will let them release the linux binaries (and I’ll buy the game!), but maybe they will have some silly legal reason not to let it be released..
Regardless, it’s exciting news, congrats to the icculus.org crew.
January 23rd, 2003 at 4:37 pm
The icculus.org crew is completely insane.. ROTT in 24 hours, and now they ported the client side of MOHAA.. Madness!
January 23rd, 2003 at 6:27 pm
I don’t want to spoil your excitement at all of these nice commercial clients appearing, but are you aware that M$ are busy buying up game developers and companies who own development houses? Apparently they are buying Vivendi who own Valve and Blizzard. And what platforms do you think M$ games are gonna exclusively run on?
January 23rd, 2003 at 6:33 pm
YES! WOO HOO!
One of my favorite Windows FPS games *EVER* may be getting a Linux client. This is the single game that I had trouble leaving Windows for.
No, I don’t dual boot! I’m stubborn. But this is EXCELLENT! Icculus- you’re my freakin’ hero!
January 23rd, 2003 at 7:09 pm
Thank you so much for making Linux gaming rock. Soon as I’m employed, or get my tax refund, you’re getting a donation.
This is fucking [b]awesome[/b]. Keep it up.
January 23rd, 2003 at 8:46 pm
It seems that porting games to Linux is speeding up, given more experience gained from earlier projects; if only someone purchased Loki assets and….
January 23rd, 2003 at 10:15 pm
So the rest of you get in line!
January 24th, 2003 at 7:34 am
MOH:AA is not in the “comming soon” list at tuxgames, how come? is the game ready for orders ? I dont think so but … or is there any other problems?
January 24th, 2003 at 7:36 am
how good is the ATI radeon 9700 drivers for linux? is it possible to play tribes2 and simular games on it?
January 24th, 2003 at 7:40 am
Now lets hope the third suprise is Warcraft 3 with the new addon :)
January 24th, 2003 at 7:41 am
icculus rulez
January 24th, 2003 at 10:00 am
Surprise #3 is Americas Army. Check the homepage of icculus.org to see a picture.
January 24th, 2003 at 2:01 pm
At this rate a BF1942 client wouldn’t be terribly surprising… :)
January 25th, 2003 at 6:15 pm
The 3rd suprise is that GNU/Lunix gaming is dead!
Good work anyway, ryan
March 27th, 2003 at 6:25 pm
should be done right after NWN. ha!