Games you want to include in Fedora Core.

[Justin Crabtree]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:40:55 -0500 (EST), Allen Baylis
> <allenbaylis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
>>How about checkers, astroid 3D,pinball and Doom
> 
> 
> asteroids and Doom are trademark protected, so you'll have to be more
> creative than saying "trademarked protected name of game."
> 
> For example... Cube exists without trademark issues... and is a FPS
> and similar to Doom in genre. But open source binaries aren't as
> useful as the official binaries, because the official binaries embedd
> some key signature checking to make sure you are using official
> binaries to prevent some very blatant cheating from locally hacked
> clients on the official game servers that are being run for
> multiplayer.  I don't know about the technical state of the Cube
> codebase, and I'm not sure if there is a way for Fedora to distribute
> binaries which include a variation of  the internal signature checking
> to prevent people from using locally hacked versions of the open
> source codebase to cheat on multiple games.  This is certaintly
> something that would have to appear in Extras first before it could be
> considered for Core inclusion really.
> 
> -jef"liquid war is always a fun time waster"spaleta
> 

I would like to see more game development companies port their games to 
Linux.  They wouldn't be free so they wouldn't be part of the distro, 
but that would remove one of the main reasons many people keep their 
Windows box.  :-)

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Justin Crabtree
Java Programmer
Ozarks Technical Community College
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