

BFRIS Linux Game and Demo Released 68
Fizgig
writes "According to Happy Penguin,
BFRIS
has been released. A 20MB demo is available for
download."
Screenshots are also available for those of us without
3DFX cards. (It's actually shipping now rather than just being
Gold)
Are you all crazy? (Score:1)
To stop some people from flaming me for not mentioning anything about Doom, Quake etc. Those games cannot be considered completely Linux for you have to buy a Commercial Windows version and download a free Linux executable. And here we have a Linux game from top to bottom.
Again. LONG LIVE LINUX!!!!!!!!!
libc5? (Score:1)
It requests libstdc++.so.27, which is in libc5 on my system.. I also get an error saying the symbol "__eh_pc" can't be resolved.
I've got a RedHat 5.1 system with glibc2, and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how I could get it running.
TIA
3dfx for Linux sucks!! (Score:1)
Also, there are some nifty
Hehe.. I should have been more patient ;-) (Score:1)
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From: Joe Waters
Hi Mike,
A couple other people have reported this problem (we couldn't reproduce it on the linux systems we had here, though the guy trying to get it to run on FreeBSD ran into it). I've placed the libstdc++ library that bfris is compiled against on my system in the download directory; it's only like 75k compressed. Let me know if that fixes your problem. Separately, we'll be releasing glibc binaries of BFRIS in the next couple of days, which should solve things one way or another.
Joe
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Is TNT really better than Voodoo2? (Score:1)
Looks cool (Score:1)
Banshee Glide for Linux yet? (Score:1)
libc5? (Score:1)
libc5? (Score:1)
Do an ldd programname to check and make sure the program can get it's linked librarys.
I figured this out while trying to run WP8 libc5 on my RH5.1 system... hehe...
Darryl Straus is under a nasty NDA (Score:1)
We all wish someone could, but he barely got the damn NDA for himself...
linux concidered over mac port? (Score:1)
Me No have 3dfx. (Score:1)
3dfx for Linux sucks!! (Score:1)
3dfx for Linux sucks!! (Score:1)
Speak for yourself, FUD-meister. (Score:1)
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The Linux Game Tome [happypenguin.org]
TNT! TNT! (Score:1)
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The Linux Game Tome [happypenguin.org]
libc5? (Score:1)
1. allowing the install script to install the included Mesa binaries (beneath the game directory, so you won't overwrite your real Mesa libs) /usr/local/games/bfrisdemo /usr/local/games/bfrisdemo; chmod 755 bfris (apparently the install script forgets to do this for you) ./bfris
2. setting BFRISDIR to
3. cd
4. starting the game like:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
I ran the game as a regular user because I have the /dev/3dfx driver installed. Not sure what I think yet. Pretty graphics. It defnitely has to be played with a joystick.
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The Linux Game Tome [happypenguin.org]
3dfx for Linux sucks!! (Score:1)
They sound rather good...
axolotl
libc5? (Score:1)
TNT may work (Score:1)
no other OpenGL/GLX drivers have been tested successfully with BFRIS at this time, if you have
something that you think might work, download and try the demo, and let us know what you find out
This is not to say that TNT will never work, merely that because it does not work with MESA it won't work right now. However, I imagine if you use XI's GL XServers with hardware support they might work.
A little exaggerated there... (Score:1)
The glide version, 2.53, is about 4 months older than 3.0 (the revisions on which are finally settled down), which is being ported to Linux as well.
My Voodoo 2 runs Quake 2 fine (and displays Unreal fine under Wine). If yours doesn't switch back to passthrough mode (which it won't if there's an error in the 3dfx app), besides telnetting in or blind typing you could just use a wrapper script to reset the display.
TNT! TNT! (Score:1)
it requires Mesa 3.0, and that just happens to
support the 3Dfx chip, because they released
glide. So, its not a direct glide game, its an
OpenGL game, and the driver only supports 3Dfx
in accelerated modes. What this also means is
that anyone with Mesa can run the game, it'll
just run like crap without 3d acceleration!
No SVGAlib! (Score:1)
I was looking forward to giving these guys my money too.
Thanks for reply... (Score:1)
Hey if smp mesa provides a signifigant speedup, maybe I can use it on quake as well. Then I could shout about undisputable video game improvment by switching to Linux.
Any BFRIS sites up yet? (Score:1)
BFRIS clans?
I am really bored of Quake2. I can't wait to destroy y'all in my brand new Zero Gravity Fighter.
Matrox m3D cards? (Score:1)
My Thoughts exactly! (Score:1)
3dfx for Linux sucks!! (Score:1)
The framerate decrease is horrible. You'd prefer losing 1/3 of your framerate? Okay, maybe you aren't as picky as some of us but that is a HUGE framerate drop where I come from. It annoys me to no end.
And no, I can't help with Glide porting. Not yet at least. I do have respect for D. Strauss, don't get me wrong. I'm thankful to have support for 3DFX. But saying Linux supports 3DFX as well as Windows is total B.S., and anyone who says otherwise is lying. That's why I have my Win95 partition.
TNT! TNT! (Score:1)
-lx
Are you all crazy - YES!! (Score:1)
whats wrong with koules?? (Score:1)
There are alot of schlock games out there....but every once and awhile there are some good things....example of some good, modern games include thief, baldours gate, Might and Magic 6, Total Annilation (sp?whatever).....some games have managed to increase in quality compared to what we used to have, but yeah, alot are complete crap.
Your statment is "Completely pointless" (Score:1)
A Toast to Aegis Tech. (Score:1)
I ordered this one 1 minute after I saw the slashdot posting. I encourage everyone who wants to see great games on Linux to kill the flames about how it isn't Wing Commander and all that and play the game. After all, the eye candy on the rendering engine has NOTHING to do with whether it is a good game.
Jason T. Collins
whats wrong with koules?? (Score:1)
There are lots of things that one can do with linux and games is a tiny portion of the larger linux stratosphere.
Games are good.
Ham radio is good.
Speech recognition is good.
AI is good.
Whatever you want to do with Linux, you will add to your enjoyment of life so who cares how people spend there time...
Games are not just for "newbie lamers" nor will Linux be brought down by Video games.
3-d is merely a stepping stone to fully holographic imaging systems.
My system is a very usable home system... (Score:1)
Linux is for the patient.....those who like to nurture things and watch them grow. It is for those who want to really make their computers work for them in ways nobody else thought of.
Linux may be 10 years behind windows, at least temporally, but it is way ahead of windows in capability and potential.
And linux has only just begun. And look how far it has come....I can wait cause life is long. Anything imagined can be accomplished and will be.
Why are we flaming? (Score:1)
I do however come to a different conclusion: If you don't like the game, buy it anyway.
I would love to see some BFRIS clans pop up. It would be nice to watch Joe get his butt kicked for once.
-Fred