Id Software and Activision Wolfenstein Source

An enthusiastic Anonymous Coward writes: "Id Software and Activision released the sources of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Single-player and multiplayer included. Unbelievable! Another great surprise from Id Software!" Update: 04/14 15:19 GMT by T : Note: don't get your hopes up -- these are the sources for the game code, not the engine.

ok,

[Rhinobird]

Now how long until there's a Gentoo portage thingie?

And I'll just shut up now...

Advances.

[saintlupus]

Oh, goody. This means the market will soon be flooded with significantly more advanced and realistic deer-slaying simulators.

--saint

Use wine

[yerricde]

All they have is an EXE file so far.

Windows self-extracting archives tend to run quite well on Wine, the most popular application binary compatibility layer for FreeBSD and GNU/Linux operating systems.

Or try Info-ZIP Unzip on it; <crime violates="DMCA">it sure helps when dealing with Microsoft documentation archives</crime>.

I mirror this code to get your advise...

[droleary]

"Source code" in an exe from a complete stranger! Let me rush out and get that!

Re:I mirror this code to get your advise...

[Verne]

no no, he's +5 Informative, it must be safe... slashdot moderators can't be wrong... ;)

Re:I mirror this code to get your advise...

[btellier]

Not to mention that he's got a 20k user number. As we all know, Slashdot didn't start attracting the evil hordes of trolls and hax0rs until the 100k's-120k's.