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planet romero » Gaming » Daikatana » Daikatana Linux Server Script now available!

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crazycheese

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Re: Daikatana Linux Server Script now available!
on: April 25, 2010, 11:42

Good job making it run in wine!

But please change the title, this is not linux server.
Good title would be “Daikatana Windows Binary runs on Linux”

What you made, is closed-source windows application being emulated via wine to run on linux. Just because application runs in wine, it does not become linux application. SDL is an easy way to make cross-platform applications that run natively.

A linux server would be Daikatana server linux build that runs on linux. If John agrees to release the server code, it would be possible. Quake2 and even quake3 engines were released as opensource by John Carmack. There is ioquake3 as well.

Wine is very bad way to run applications on linux, but I respect your work!

DI-MeisterM

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Posts: 20

Re: Daikatana Linux Server Script now available!
on: April 25, 2010, 14:09

Thanks for your contribution!

I would suggest to re-read the title. It clearly shows: Daikatana Linux Script.

As you pointed out, it’s currently the one and only way to run a Daikatana Server on Unix/Linux. New is, that it doesn’t require a X-Windows system. Many people rent game servers online which don’t have X-Windows installed, this is where my solution comes in quite handy happy

The Daikatana source code is kinda available for a small kind of group. Unfortunetly only the 1.0 source code and NOT the almost bug free 1.2 source. Looks like there will never be an open source solution, even if Eidos and John would allow to release it. The source doesn’t exist anymore sad