Comments on: Homeworld SDL

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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:52:03 +0000

my frand is vary stopit his name is david and
he livs at 80-44164 st.

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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:45:41 +0000

i am a solger war you?

By: simcon

simcon — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:05:37 +0000

Just saw a post on gametome about a native Bink player now available – http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
http://www.radgametools.com/down/Bink/BinkLinuxPlayer.zip

This would make it possible for people to download the player and place it in /usr/bin and Homeworld could call the player to play the biks.

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Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:01:42 +0000

Will there be any network playor is it going to be one of this projects like avp or freespace2 at icculus which never got network play?

By: bobcat

bobcat — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:46:09 +0000

Post a link to the code in their forums so THEY are redistributing their source code. :-) We can get it from there.

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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:14:16 +0000

the game installs and updates just fine with regular wine 20030911 ;0

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By:

Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:22:14 +0000

I got it running, but trying to change to OpenGL I get a generic ‘couldnt change’ error in homeworld. Cant find anything relevent on the console.

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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:51:02 +0000

Great stuff Ted, congratulations on the good work !!!
Hope you remember the Linux folk when you’re programming fulltime for some uber games company :o)

By: simcon

simcon — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:21:44 +0000

[simcon@localhost homeworld]$ ./homeworld
./homeworld.bin: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3′ not found (required by ./homeworld.bin)
[simcon@localhost homeworld]$ rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.5-16mdk

Bummer :) I’m using Mandrake 9.
I have 9.1 but haven’t installed it yet.

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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:06:45 +0000

First of all, thanks for your work! Homeworld is an awesome game.
It’s too bad that they were using Bink and some proprietary network library. I don’t doubt that you will have problems implementing your own network code, but would it be (legally) possible to somehow extract at least the subtitles from the Bink cutscenes? So much of the game’s atmosphere comes from those cutscenes that it would be really bad of not having them at all…