Linux and gaming - sapling program

[tleslie]

the prey demo?, is that the "prey" that was released for Xbox last year?
what prey demo would one be using? one intended for a PC version?
"prey" for X-box had pretty decent graphics and an innovative
gravity flip around thingy, but lacked good subplots.

It would be impressive to so that running on a linux box i do say!

post more details that you find.

-tl


On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 17:13 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:04:09PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> > http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/sapling/
> > 
> > I just signed up for these guys to check them out.  I want to see
> > something like this done for the Linux community.  I hate the idea of
> > paying a service fee and want to see a one-time translation fee.  Yes,
> > I would pay *more* for a game, via a service like this, just so it
> > would work on Linux.
> > 
> > It's a teeny tiny setup, with a small forum.. and nothing extra gained
> > for paying (yet), so I can't recommend it unless you're into the idea
> > and don't care about the $50.  =)
> 
> Hmm, seems interesting, although they seem very lacking on details of
> what they are actually doing.  At least with Loki we knew that they were
> porting the original game code to SDL/openGL for linux.  It sounds like
> these guys are writing a directx to opengl library and then somehow
> porting the game or maybe just doing a wrapper around the windows
> binary.  Hard to say with the lack of details they provide.
> 
> For now I will stick to supporting the few comanies that released linux
> binaries for their games (I am not done playing NWN yet either).
> 
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