netpanzer 2

[235u at comcast.net (D.E. Chadbourne)]

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hi.  as usual my mouth opened prior to any thought.  unfortunately
instead of a only large hole opening in the lower part of my face, i
speak.  or in this case typed.  i went to the netpanzer sight
http://netpanzer.berlios.de/ and got caught up in how cool the game was,
downloaded it, thought i cured a small discrepancy problem, the game
appeared to be working (i noodled around with various options),
exclaimed victory and told all.  well, the damn thing isn't working
worth a crap.  crashes when i go online.  don't even try playing it if
you're running redhat.  it may work for Gentoo, Mandrake, PLD Linux
Distro according to the netpanzer site.  and that's what this mini rant
is about.  i really freakin hate having to use a god d*mn MS OS just to
play a half decent game!  winex sucks and games that fly on ms, crawl if
they work at all on linux.  (same hardware)  but i don't think the winex
folks really like redhat or ati, both of which i happen to use and work
fine for everything i like except gaming.  even games that are linux
specific don't work across the various distros!  we can't even make
games for ourselves.  i know there are exceptions, but go download the
top ten linux games and i bet you can't get half of 'em to work for you
and you guys are gurus, think of how impossible it is for regular folks
like me.  it just sucks!  flash or java based games are lame.  way to
slow.  i don't know what the answer is (everybody conforming to the FHS,
not using proprietary libs...) but hopefully somebody thinks of
something soon.  if you have got this far without hitting delete you're
as bored as i am.

ahhhh.  thank you.  i feel better.
- -eric.


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This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli
My toy at http://235u.home.comcast.net/
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