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Yes.

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Have you made any modifications to the master, or is it just a plain jane master?

And how 'up' will this master be?  Is it more of a curiosity, or are you planning on leaving it up indefeniatly?

Speaking of which, it's out.  Go play it and bug server operators to run it.

Umm I dont know what happened but it looks like my post got chopped off or something?

It's a bug in SMF.  I ran into similar problems before.  If you're running into problems, check where the post cut off, because there is probably something there that SMF is choking on.  For me, changing my double spaces to single spaces fixed my problems, but ymmv.

From the looks of your error message, you don't have the development libraries for SDL_mixer installed.  What distro of Linux are you running?

* user`ok is waiting for Linux version...

It's already out.  Because you're running linux, compiling the source yourself should be a cakewalk for you.

So OpenGL rendering is just useless here.

Not necessarily.  There are many obscure problems under the hood with the Doom rendering engine, which can cause it to act funny under certain circumstances.  To fix certain bugs and add new, vital features can be a major pain in the ass for a software renderer that is as old as Doom's.  A new renderer could be very helpful to solve such problems.  Take for instance this very famous Odamex bug.  Note that this bug not only exists in Odamex, but in every single Doom port that uses software rendering at high resolutions ever.  ZDoom has it, ZDaemon has it, Eternity has it, Legacy has it, they all have it.  Months have passed, and the team has been wracking our brains from here to kingdom come trying to come up with a solution, but so far the solution has been elusive.  A similar problem has been found by the developers of Eternity where lines above a certain length could be rendered inaccurately in the software renderer, and it was finally decided that it was a fundamental problem with the Doom renderer, and had no conceivable solution.  None.  No way to fix it.  The only solution is to write an alternate renderer.

The fundamental problem here is that when you think "OpenGL", you automatically think "GZDoom" and "Doomsday Engine", which you don't necessarily care for.  I understand, I prefer to use software-rendered engines myself.  However, have you considered that OpenGL doesn't have to necessarily be "colored lighting and special effects galore"?

OpenGL allows easy ways of doing graphics intensive things for purpose-built GPU's that were a huge pain in the butt 13 years ago when the routines had to be built for a general purpose CPU's.  What if an OpenGL renderer was written that didn't filter textures, scaled light and darkness like the original renderer, and for all intents and purposes looked exactly like the original engine, but under the hood was much easier to understand and maintain?  If written carefully enough, you might not be even be able to tell you were USING the new engine (except you wouldn't run into mentioned problems).  "Impossible!" you say.  Nope, I've seen screenshots of denis' ogl_hack branch of Odamex, and it's so close to the original software renderer, it's scary.

I'm not saying that Odamex is going to have an OpenGL renderer (or not, for that matter, it's still in the experimental stage at the moment).  However, please don't misrepresent what an "OpenGL renderer" is.

Would it not be smart enough to name them "ODCTF01 - ODCTF10" like that standing for "ODAMEX CTF MAP01"? I would recommend telling it to be in a addition like skulltag does.

Why?  First of all, other than Skulltag and maybe the odd ZDoom map, pretty much every levelset follows the MAPxx standard.  Secondly, Odamex can stream-load WAD's on the fly, so having two WAD's with identical map names is not an issue (and makes the 'kludge' I did for ZDaemon CTF 1+2 obsolete).

This is what happens when you have too much free time at work...


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Not Shown: The LAN server I was connected to, Cygwin compiled.

Ran reasonably well, considering the hardware (Early 400mhz PowerMac G4).  And yes, that's Freedoom in the screenshot, as I didn't have my Doom2 IWAD handy.  I suppose this goes to show that you can enjoy Odamex on damn near any platform you like.