[Stratagus-devel] Re: Oreilly.com article

[Russell Smith]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:04 pm, Howard Wen wrote:
> Russell,
>
> Here's a draft of it.
>
> Could you please look it over and point out any corrections that should
> be made?
>
> All that I need to add is Nehal's age and job occupation to this draft.
>
> Thanks again -- the games Magnant and Invasion look SWEET! (We will be
> including screenshots with the article.)
>
> --H


Article: (in this author's personal opinion) Stratagus.
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Comment: This will be assumed to be me, which it is not.  I would prefer that 
the renaming be attributed to the person who did it (grumbel), who has not 
been a contributor except for the name changeover.

Article: Smith wasn't involved with FreeCraft when it was conceived, but 
decided to continue it due to a personal conviction for Linux. "There is a 
lack of gaming on 
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Comment: I was involved with FreeCraft before the cease and desist letter, 
however I was not involved when it was created, given the name freecraft.
So continuing it, is now exactly what happened.

Article: Of course, there's the Linux factor
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Comment: There is really the Cross Platform factor.  It runs on Mac OSX, 
LInux, Windows and BSD.

Comment: Where did the references about Nehal Mistry's comments come from?  He 
did not respond to this interview, and I would like to know where he made 
these comments about the engine.

Article: "The file formats used in Blizzard's games are well documented on the 
Web," says Smith.
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Comment:  I Would prefer not to be personnally quoted for this statement.

Article: We intend to add a team play mode where you can share resources and 
technologies with your allies.
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Comment: This will be offered by the engine, not the meta-server.  The article 
appears to state this is meta-server functionality.

Article: since Stratagus is not easy to program. 
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Comment: What do you mean here Howard?


Is it at all possible to use My first name for the comment?  I would prefer 
that, I'm not a big organization.

Hopefully you find this helpful

Regards

Russell Smith.