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Posted: **Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:01 am**

Eternal Lands is a Free MMORPG that runs on Linux and all those other OS's

Give it a whirl!

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:59 pm**

Hey thanks! More ways to take time away from things I should actually be doing.

This looks really great, though. Are you currently playing?

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:26 pm**

I've been on pretty much 24/7 since I started playing 2 days ago

I wouldn't mind submitting stuff once I can import/export e3d into blender.

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:18 am**

I was playing last night. Very cool. I tell you the state of linux gaming is slowing improving. The key of this is for game developers to use opengl instead of activex. Opengl makes porting the games across multiple platforms much easier.

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:13 am**

I thought it did use OpenGL? On linux it requires glx enabled in your xorg.conf.

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:45 am**

Nintenduh wrote:I thought it did use OpenGL? On linux it requires glx enabled in your xorg.conf.

AFAIK it does. I think what Patrick was referring to was Linux gaming in general - games that are in OpenGL (like Eternal Lands) are often ported to Linux easily (like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal Tournament, Doom3, etc), whereas DirectX games aren't (like Half-Life 2).

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:13 am**

mrben wrote:
Nintenduh wrote:I thought it did use OpenGL? On linux it requires glx enabled in your xorg.conf.
AFAIK it does. I think what Patrick was referring to was Linux gaming in general - games that are in OpenGL (like Eternal Lands) are often ported to Linux easily (like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal Tournament, Doom3, etc), whereas DirectX games aren't (like Half-Life 2).

Exactly. Another cool game I was playing is gl-117 (air combat sim):
http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:24 pm**

Flight gear is available for linux:
http://www.flightgear.org/index.shtml

This looks like a real world flight simulator. Another OpenGL app.

Posted: **Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:35 pm**

Alright.... Nintenduh is evil!

I should have never checked out Eternal Lands like this thread suggested.

Last night I spent several hour hunting rabbits for their fur so I could fulfill a quest given to me by my new Order!

Good game... though perhaps TOO GOOD!

Posted: **Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:36 pm**

lol. when you have a skill over lvl 20 you should come and join my guild

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:45 am**

I've spoken with Placid (An in-game moderator and member of the EL Linux Community guild) and he said that he would prolly be okay with doing an interview with you good folks about the state of linux gaming

Would this be somthing worth trying to setup?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:12 am**

Sure, let us know what his email info is and we'll get in touch with him:
techshow@thelinuxlink.net

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:38 pm**

looks cool what are the game requirements (I have dialup and a really bad graphics card that I will upgrade soon)

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:02 pm**

From the website:

...P2 450, OpenGl 1.2 compliant video accelerator (it works fine on a Vanta TNT2 8MB), 128 RAM, and at least a 28 Kbauds Internet connection

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:45 am**

sweet! even my onboard 16MB Video Card will work and it works on dialup! Ill start downloading it tommarrow after Im done downloading TLLTS episode 94