NewsForge: Tremulous: The Best Free Software Game Ever?

[ Thanks to lh8 for this link. ]

"Linux and open source software lag behind the proprietary market in the number and quality of available video games, especially in the realm of first-person shooters (FPS), a genre dominated by the likes of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, and Halo. Here, Linux is an afterthought, if not ignored completely. Tremulous, a mixture of FPS and RTS (real-time strategy) written by Tim Angus, is an exception to that rule.

"Based on the free software version of the Quake 3 engine, Tremulous was released under the GPL by id Software last year. I downloaded the Linux version of Tremulous 1.1.0--it also runs on Windows--from the files page on tremulous.net and installed it on an IBM ThinkPad T40 laptop, a desktop box, and a workstation..."

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