On Sun, January 20, 2008 12:21 pm, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can be played within ~10-15 year compatibility range. That is: Windows 95 games still mostly work on Windows Vista.
Actually, older games are finally not compatible on wintendo either. IIRC, you have to use DOSBOX or something like that.
Until Linux will have a better backward-compatibility (LSB?), it is unlikely to see many commercial games out there.
I actually see the end of Linux games here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 ...though I could care less about such things, apparently the DirectX 10.1 has the ability to utilize the GPU to render much of the graphics, taking the load off the CPU. Thus one ends up with very realistic and detailed gaming. Of course, I'm still trying to finish Planetfall, so I'll be a ways off. :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org