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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:40:41 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@lanodan yeah, even if it's a niche game, at some point somebody will definitely go and fix it, share it, then it will break again, and somebody else will pick it up, fix and share it.

You know the deal.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:37:48 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
- a1batross
@lanodan but of course, that's highly unlikely, even if Ross's campaign on games as a service going kinda rough.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:37:38 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@lanodan yeah, like Y2038 is the closest breakage that will definitely happen for most software.

I think modern games probably won't even get a chance to be reverse-engineered, releasing source code (like actually releasing it, not leaking through thirdparties/former employees) is the only way to be sure it won't be an issue to run these games in the future.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:28:40 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
- a1batross
@lanodan to me, releasing their source code is crucial for game preservation. Can you imagine running Doom 2016 on systems in 10 years? Or 20 years?

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:28:39 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
- a1batross
@lanodan and it's a great game, definitely not deserved to be forgotten...

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:27:11 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@lanodan Rage didn't have Linux build either.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:23:36 JST a1batross
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- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@lanodan they still technically own their software, no? Well, I hope they are.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 06:18:07 JST a1batross

Will current day id Software ever release their engines that came after Doom 3 under free license? What do you think?

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:00:52 JST a1batross

I know few people from Valve follow me here, so... Valve, wtf?

src/ https://x.com/csco_dev/status/1877993047897600241/photo/1
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1. Dear Counter-Strike community, Since we've submitted our build to Steamworks, we've received an automated Steam Support message about having retired our app without any reason explained. This is devastating as we've worked on the project for almost 8 years now. We do not understand what happened, we went through Steam Greenlight back in 2017, talked to legal to know if this was possible for us to release on Steam. We even discussed with some of the developers on different Valve projects, and they have been very cooperative in helping us figure out the means of release back then. After some requested legal changes due to the usage of Valve's IP, we were off on a good start, our mod page was created on Steamworks, things were looking promising and the team was extremely motivated. Steamworks had requested that we finish the build before being able to release, and now that we did, we are unable to publish it. The project has been sticking to the guidelines on how to release a mod on Steam, we've followed the requirements and recommendations to the letter, no leaked code was used, or illegal actions were taken for those wondering, we've played by their rules the whole time, sometimes even to the detriment of the quality of the mod: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading/distributing_source_engine Nobody at Valve told us to stop what we were doing during all those years, no sort of formal request, yet this feels like an even worse form of Cease and Desist at this point. Many people at Valve are aware of our and many other projects, yet have refused to communicate since late 2020. We feel like we were treated unfairly, and have been blinded by our own passion for the game, as many other projects did before. We now feel required to tell any modding team related to Valve projects to reconsider what they're doing if their sole way of releasing is through Steam, especially multiplayer mods, as they will probably get rejected the way we did. We do not think our case is an isolated one at all. Moving forward, we'll try to get in contact again with Valve employees, even companies related to Counter-Strike in general to try to get things moving in the right direction, in the hope this issue can be resolved. Sincerely, The entire Classic Offensive team.
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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:00:39 JST a1batross
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- BunnyInAHat
@BunnyInAHat ask them to rename themselves? Not the first time for Valve: Jackhammer was renamed to J.A.C.K, Black Mesa Source was renamed to Black Mesa.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 03:29:11 JST a1batross

https://m.vk.com/wall-197717522_3184

Some random school taught kids to make Half-Life levels using JACK and run them under Xash to introduce them into game development

tbh Quake/HL mapping is really the easiest and entertaining way to learn basics of game dev, as no prior knowledge of programming or 3D design is required at all
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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 16:55:23 JST a1batross

fully modeled gman briefcase

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 16:45:52 JST a1batross

To get myself familiar with the Quake III engine branch used in Alice, which in my assumption should be quite similar to what's used in Ritual's FAKK2, I fixed the published SDK to build with modern C++ compilers.

It didn't turned out to be really hard, other than typical pre-standard C++ incompatibilities I've seen porting HLSDK countless times for modern compilers, there isn't much needed to be done.

And look, it even gets loaded in original Loki Games' port of this game!

The source code is at https://github.com/a1batross/fakk2-sdk

To compile and install (backup the original cgame.so/fgame.so just in case) just run:
```
cd source
CC="cc -m32" CXX="c++ -m32" ./waf configure build install --destdir=path/to/install/bin/x86/glibc-2.1
```
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1. Original Linux port of Heavy Metal FAKK2 by Loki Games's running with my custom built libraries. It's the first, tutorial level of the game.
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  GitHub - a1batross/fakk2-sdk: Heavy Metal FAKK 2 SDK fixed to build on modern systems
  
  Heavy Metal FAKK 2 SDK fixed to build on modern systems - a1batross/fakk2-sdk
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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 05:29:26 JST a1batross

I found and successfully infiltrated the base where idtech.space servers are located
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1. computer room from dm3 map from Quake I
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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:29:07 JST a1batross

collective fedi mind

do you which linux steam runtime version goldsrc uses? Both legacy and hl25 branches...

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:29:06 JST a1batross
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- a1batross
Doesn't look like scout. It's quite buggy if I run it through scout.

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:29:00 JST a1batross
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- mittorn
@mittorn that one is scout

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:28:56 JST a1batross
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- mittorn
@mittorn yeah but it was also updated several times. However, gcc version hasn't changed until hl25 which says:
`GCC: (SteamRT 5.4.0-7.really.6+steamrt1.2+srt2) 5.4.1 20160803`

steamrt 1.2? wtf is that

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:28:51 JST a1batross
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- mittorn
@mittorn that explains everything

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a1batross (a1ba@idtech.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:28:49 JST a1batross
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- mittorn
@mittorn yeah, this is scout. They still keep updating it, and heavy is dead
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/ld-library-path-runtime.md

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