Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed

inotocracy writes "At John Carmack's Quakecon 2005 keynote he promised that the Quake 3 Arena source code would soon be released-- turns out he wasn't just pulling our leg! Today it was released, weighing in at 5.45mb, it makes for a quick download and a whole lotta fun. Developers, start your compilers!"

Ha ! Bit late uh.

[88NoSoup4U88]

Releasing the source several years after the game is released, how lame !

Take a look at VALVe, at least they released the source of Half-Life 2 before the game was released...

Ohwait...

My first hack

[daserver]

#define cdkey_correct 1

Re:Source Source

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

October 2, 2003, if I read my log... er, recall correctly.

Re:porting

[ciroknight]

I dunno about you, but I'm firing up the compiler on my toaster just as soon as I get home.

Re:What can be done with it?

[FLAGGR]

Someone could turn it into a word proccessing app if they wanted to. Depends on how much effort your willing to spend, and how good at coding you are.

Slashdot late as usual :-/

[bani]

2005-08-19 21:37:02 Quake 3 Source Finally Released (Games,Quake) (rejected)

Reject submissions, only to post them later...

Re:Hmm

[iamplasma]

Get with the times, man. Only old people use that joke, in South Korea...
So in Communist North Korea, does that joke use old people?

Re:What can be done with it?

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

"I see that you're trying to write a letter. Would you like me to..."

baaa-WHOOOM!

CLIPPY has been killed with a RAILGUN!

Sounds good, but...

[teamhasnoi]

does it compile on OSx86?

*runs*

Re:porting

[TheoMurpse]

I'm waiting for the Dead Badger: Arena.

Re:Hmm

[k4rm4_p0l7c3]

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
                long i;
                float x2, y;
                const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

                x2 = number * 0.5F;
                y = number;
                i = * ( long * ) // evil floating point bit level hacking
                i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
                y = * ( float * )
                y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration // y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

#ifndef Q3_VM
#ifdef __linux__
                assert( !isnan(y) ); // bk010122 - FPE?
#endif
#endif
                return y;
}

heh.

Gotta love grep

[zeno921]

Results of `grep -ri fuck *':

1. //NOW close the fucking brush!!
2. i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
3. // fuck, don't have a clean cut, we'll overflow
4. // since the cmd formatting can fuckup (amount of spaces), using a dumb step by step parsing
5. // fuck, don't have a clean cut, we'll overflow
6. // vm fuckage
7. // vm fuckage
8. //FIXME: this is a fucking mess
9. Note: Unix CR/LF in *.dsw/*.dsp fucks up MSVC++.
10. How the fuck did this happen?
11. some files, and between their revisions and ours we fuck this up.
12. break; // dragged backwards or fucked up
13. // FIXME: this code is a TOTAL clusterfuck
14. {"rem", "Less than half a fucking man."},
15. {"rem", "You're fucking dumb! Suck it down."},
16. // cleaning up after merging and thinks badly fucked up
17. this could fuck up if you have only part of a complex entity selected...
18. // FIXME: this bend painting code needs to be rolled up significantly as it is a cluster fuck right now

Re:porting

[yppiz]

You know, I think I'd rather not hear my kitchen appliance say

Quad toastage!

first thing in the morning.

--Pat

Re:Ha ! Bit late uh.

[aichpvee]

That whooshing sound you hear is the joke flying right over your head.

Re:Nice

[rjw57]

It's the first guess for finding an inverse sqare root

I've got an even faster one: x := x * x

[Note to /-bots, yes I knew what the original poster meant...].