Id Release of Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github under GPL-2
Id Release of Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github under GPL-2
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GitHub - id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll
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Note that this is only the game code that allows people to develop mods, and not engine code that allows people to do ports. The re-release engine code is still proprietary.
They did the same with Quake 1 re-release game code
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good shit
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if Quake II is under GPL-2.0...
doesn't it mean that Quake II has a good to high potential to be supported on Linux?-
Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that's why they kept it open.
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Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
never knew till today and also that's pretty cool!
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Remaster uses "The Kex E.ngine", however I don't know if that's an actual game engine or a portability layer of some kind.
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true, in the official source code they say that was only tested the build in linux lol, and in the first doom they said that was only playable on linux :b
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The license doesn’t really matter, unless you mean it should be included in the kernel. If it was another permissive license, you could also port it to Linux. I have no clue if it’s actually possible to port it to Linux natively, but I would guess that you can
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no clue if it’s actually possible to port it to Linux natively
its's open source, you can, now how easily...
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Someone needs to make quake ii run doom just to prove a point
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When Quake 3?
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Are you looking for this?
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Based
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This is amazing! Hey Nintendo…
Yeah, Nintendo here? What do you need, a lawsuit?
Nintendo would see the sky fall down before they would do something like this, because unlike idSoftware, who release good work, make their money, and move on, Nintendo would re-release the same stuff 5 times, except it's always more expensive the next time
And their remaster looks worse than the fan HD texture packs.
It would literally not hurt them to open source anything lt;= 3DS now after the eshop closure. The act of doing that and everything that would come of it (e.g. rom hacks) would actually be a pretty good PR move imo and maybe they'd even find new developers, acquainted with their code, that could be hired by them so they have developers that actually know how to develop good and optimized games.
One can sadly only dream.
The thing is that they want to continue to milk those classic titles (see for example the Chrono Trigger Android port)