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Well I will not put money where my mouth has been and buy Left for Dead 2. I have been wanting a lot of Valve games, but I swore off all non-native games after

by dkhenry 14y ago

Well I will not put money where my mouth has been and buy Left for Dead 2. I have been wanting a lot of Valve games, but I swore off all non-native games after Minecraft ( if Notch can do it so can everyone else )

sp332 14y ago
What do you mean by "non-native"?
- jpgg 14y ago
  He probably means by running the games using something like WINE.
  - deleted 14y ago
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- dkhenry 14y ago
  something that needs WINE to run. I want a Linux binary I can run.
  - sp332 14y ago
    Did you miss this part: it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04.
    - dkhenry 14y ago
      Right which is why I am buying it. They have earned their money
      - sp332 14y ago
        Oh! You said "I will not put money where my mouth has been" did you mean "now"? :)
        drivebyacct2 14y ago
        Haha, glad you put it together, I had one confused look on my face reading up and down that thread repeatedly.
        davvid 14y ago
        Money spent cannot be eaten (or.. put in one's mouth)
        sp332 14y ago
        It doesn't mean eating, it's about talking. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+money+where+mouth+is http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+money+where+mouth+is
        dkhenry 14y ago
        Well thats one really bad spelling mistake on my behalf. I can't even change it at this point. I meant now.
jiggy2011 14y ago
Minecraft isn't really "native" since it targets the Java VM.
- rplnt 14y ago
  And it still had Linux specific issues. That weren't fixed for over a year (there were community patches though). Also, Minecraft's "graphics engine" (raw opengl?) isn't comparable to Source. In any way...
  - baq 14y ago
    1) source can't do what minecraft does. 2) what do you think source will use in linux? directx? it's opengl or the highway.
cturner 14y ago
Something that impressed me with minecraft was the audio quality. Generally Java audio is rubbish: very rough at the edges and even unstable. Minecraft is using paulscode and it seems to be solid.

by dkhenry 14y ago

sp332 14y ago

What do you mean by "non-native"?

jpgg 14y ago
He probably means by running the games using something like WINE.
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
dkhenry 14y ago
something that needs WINE to run. I want a Linux binary I can run.
- sp332 14y ago
  Did you miss this part: it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04.
  - dkhenry 14y ago
    Right which is why I am buying it. They have earned their money
    - sp332 14y ago
      Oh! You said "I will not put money where my mouth has been" did you mean "now"? :)
      - drivebyacct2 14y ago
        Haha, glad you put it together, I had one confused look on my face reading up and down that thread repeatedly.
      - davvid 14y ago
        Money spent cannot be eaten (or.. put in one's mouth)
        sp332 14y ago
        It doesn't mean eating, it's about talking. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+money+where+mouth+is http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+money+where+mouth+is
      - dkhenry 14y ago
        Well thats one really bad spelling mistake on my behalf. I can't even change it at this point. I meant now.

jiggy2011 14y ago

Minecraft isn't really "native" since it targets the Java VM.

rplnt 14y ago
And it still had Linux specific issues. That weren't fixed for over a year (there were community patches though). Also, Minecraft's "graphics engine" (raw opengl?) isn't comparable to Source. In any way...
- baq 14y ago
  1) source can't do what minecraft does. 2) what do you think source will use in linux? directx? it's opengl or the highway.

cturner 14y ago

Something that impressed me with minecraft was the audio quality. Generally Java audio is rubbish: very rough at the edges and even unstable. Minecraft is using paulscode and it seems to be solid.