Quake 3 Source

[Calen]

In a recent interview with John "Quake" Carmack, it has been confirmed that the Quake 3 source code will be released under GPL in a week or so.

Hey Hyperion :-)

On a completely different subject, he also mentions are beloved computer...

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His biggest pet peeve with the console market is how closed off it is: you have to apply to be a developer and get a special development kit and get product approval from the hardware manufacturer, etc. (As opposed to the PC market, where anyone can develop and game creators can release content updates, point releases, and so on.) That's just the nature of the market. If the PS3 opens up, it'll be more like the old Commodore Amiga, a platform anyone can use for a variety of applications. Certainly Microsoft will never do this with the Xbox product line, but Carmack is holding out hope that Sony could experiment.

Carmack Interview

[adonay]

Lol you stole my topic. http://www.forumplanet.com/PlanetQuake/topic.asp?fid=1486&tid=1722900

hope to see quake 3 for os4 soon then hehehe

adonay :-D

[Coolit]

Excellent!

Do you think a 68k version is possible or ppc> only?

[odin]

Q3 68k?!??! :roflmao:

[Effy]

An A1200 in tower with Blizzard 200+ Mhz and a Voodoo3  :-?

[Coolit]

Thats what I was thinking odin   :lol:

[odin]

Heck, even on a 604 with some VooDoo card it would crawl if you ask me :-).

[Coolit]

It would be interesting to see if something could be done with it, quite a challenge for someone there  :-)

[bloodline]

Effy wrote:
An A1200 in tower with Blizzard 200+ Mhz and a Voodoo3  :-?

Make and drink a cup of tea, while watching an episode of Columbo between frames...

[Waccoon]

I wish more developers did this.  I'd kill to get new versions of Viper Racing and Dungeon Keeper that could run better on modern hardware.  Being able to race against 30 cars or have more than 120 creatures in your dungeon would be sweet. :banana:

[Nickman]

It's out

README:
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/nfo/quake3-1.32b-source-README.txt

SOURCE:
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/~xbox/xbox-scene/sources/games/quake3-1.32b-source.zip

[Piru]

Running on MorphOS:

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It took bigfoot 5 hours to port.

[Coolit]

lol 5hrs, take it there was a race to be the first :crazy:

EDIT: so wheres the 68k port? its been 7hrs!

[B00tDisk]

Coolit wrote:
lol 5hrs, take it there was a race to be the first :crazy:

EDIT: so wheres the 68k port? its been 7hrs!

Actually to simulate a 68k port, just go to the collection of photos listed above in the thread and load one every few minutes or so.  Then you've got just about what Q3 would be like under 68k! :-D

[spavatch]

Oh c'mon, a man can dream, right? :-D