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"Troy Piggins" <troy@piggo.com> wrote in message
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> LoTekGuru wrote:
>
>
> > unless they've changed their price, you can get a one month subscription
to
> > www.transgaming.com for $5 USD, which will allow you to download WineX
and
> > run just about any Win32 game in linux.
>
> yeah, i have winex. use it to run cstrike 1.5, warcraft 3 and some
> other games, but quake3 runs native in linux. so do other games like
> unreal tournament, americas army, rtcw:enemy territory. performance is
> way better (i reckon better than in windows).
> i am assuming that since jedi academy is based on the q3a engine, it
> follows that with a simple patch it can run native on linux.
I don't know an answer to your question, but I wouldn't automatically assume
that there is a patch or binary available for it to run on Linux.
Nearly all games "based on" the Quake 3 (or any other) engine are modified
to a greater or lesser extent by their developers. The Q3 engine is just a
base for them to work from so they don't have to start coding from scratch.
I don't know how modified Jedi Academy is from "vanilla" Quake 3. In other
words, commercially released games based on an engine aren't at all the same
as total conversions (which contain only new data files).
It's really up to them (LucasArts) whether they want to release Mac, Linux,
etc. binaries. Obviously, this should be considerably easier with a
minimally or even moderately modified version of an engine that already has
good Mac/Linux binaries (as has been the case over the years with the
Unreal/UT and Quake 3 engines), but it still doesn't mean that they will
actually do it.
I'd contact LucasArts to find out if they have any Linux binaries available,
or any possible plans to release any (and to express interest in such
binaries).