Valve Petition

[Slagathor]

You guys seen this????? I searched here and didnt find anything.

 

I would love a Linux port as the last Steam update broke Cedega, again...heh

 

But I doubt 200 some sigs is gonna help.....heh

 

http://www.petitiononline.com/hllinux1/petition.html

 

[moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman]

[tyme]

Wow, thats a horribly written petition...I'll sign it, but I doubt it'll change anything.

[SoulSe]

What tyme said.

 

On my box, Steam runs so smoothly with Cedega that it might as well be running natively. I am way impressed.

 

But native is always better.

[Slagathor]

Steam ran good till the last update.

 

Now it doesnt even start.....heh

[SoulSe]

Steam ran good till the last update.

 

Now it doesnt even start.....heh

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The last update of Cedega or Steam? I have both and they're running just fine.

 

This petition really has been written very badly :deal:

 

Oh well, for what it's worth...

[Slagathor]

I was refering to Steam, I kept getting some goofy error about access violations.

 

Got it working now though......heh

 

Didnt realise there was cedega 4.4.1-1, I was running 4.4.1.

 

I know the petition is written very badly, glad I didnt write it....

(had I written it, it prolly would have been much worse...... )

[arthur]

eh. a native port requires a complete rewrite of the engine since Half-life 2 uses the DirectX api, and not OpenGL. DirectX will probably never support linux, being from microsoft.

 

and OpenGL might lack some features only DirectX may have. All in all it's a rather futile attempt as Valve will clearly not spend tons of money for what would basically be a completely new game engine for the small linux market.

 

we'd have better luck hacking the Quake 3 Arena game engine source code and improving it...so get it from here and start your compilers!