What does releasing the source code mean?

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2 total messages Started by Todd Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:12

#287094

Author: Todd
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:12

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With Id software, when the game goes beyond a certain age, they
release the source code.  What exactly does this mean?

I loved Quake2, but had problems with it in WindowsXP, then discovered
Unreal Tournament.  By the time I tried Quake 3, I was too used to the
feel of UT, that I wasn't able to get into q3.  Or maybe the q3 bots
are just too good for me.

But UT has its problems.  If there's a serverpackages line in the
ut.ini, but the package isn't the game folder, the game will crash.
After a few games, (with DirectX anyway) the game suddenly stops
responding to input, and the only thing I can do is wait until it
crashes (which is almost always does within a minute), or ctrl-alt-del
out.

I've been recently getting into Linux, where most everything is open
source.  But Id only releases the source code for their games after
the final patch, as far as I know.  Q2 is still 3.20, I believe, and
Q3 is 1.32?

Re: What does releasing the source code mean?

#287095

Author: OscartheGrouch
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:16

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Todd wrote:
> With Id software, when the game goes beyond a certain age, they
> release the source code.  What exactly does this mean?
> 
> I loved Quake2, but had problems with it in WindowsXP, then discovered
> Unreal Tournament.  By the time I tried Quake 3, I was too used to the
> feel of UT, that I wasn't able to get into q3.  Or maybe the q3 bots
> are just too good for me.
> 
> But UT has its problems.  If there's a serverpackages line in the
> ut.ini, but the package isn't the game folder, the game will crash.
> After a few games, (with DirectX anyway) the game suddenly stops
> responding to input, and the only thing I can do is wait until it
> crashes (which is almost always does within a minute), or ctrl-alt-del
> out.
> 
> I've been recently getting into Linux, where most everything is open
> source.  But Id only releases the source code for their games after
> the final patch, as far as I know.  Q2 is still 3.20, I believe, and
> Q3 is 1.32?
> 
> 

1.32c to be exact. I forget when the "c" came out, not that long ago it 
seems.

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