Obnoxious self promotion

[John Myshrall]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>> Just a little self promotion.
>>
>> The August issue of Tux Magazine is out, and there is
>> an article by me about KDETV (pages 21 - 24).
>> Funny things can happen when working to a deadline.
>> During the writing of the article I had a bit of
>> trouble with the TV tuner card I was using, so I could
>> only get a handful of channels. Now, to illustrate the
>> screen capture function I needed an image taken from
>> the TV. Ideally I would have loved to grab screen
>> shots from "Space" or the "Discovery" channel (my
>> favourites :-) ), but that wasn't an option for me and
>> I was running out of time. Any event, I caught Jan
>> Wong, a journalist with the Globe and Mail Newspaper
>> being interviewed on Vision TV. Not ideal in my books,
>> but good enough. So, I figure the editor will put that
>> in as a little thumbnail image to show the screen
>> capture feature works... Last page of the article and
>> a BIG image of Jan Wong... You never know...
>>
>> Well, next up on my plate articles on "Doom 3 & Quake
>> 3" (almost done), "Procmail" and "Freespire".
>
> Shouldn't that now be Quake 4? The linux port is great. Wine and 
> Halflife 2 would be good as well. What about tremulous? It's based on 
> the q3 engine but is heavily modified. Totally free too :)
>
> Jamon
And it runs quite well on a 900 Mhz Sempron with nVidia 64 MB video 
card.  I would also add Nexuiz to this list.

Kudos to the ports on Quake 4 and Doom 3. Doom Resurrection of Evil was 
a bit different on the install.

John



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