Doom 3 will be based on a peer to peer architecture says
CmdrTaco quoting Ant quoting Carmack.
Greg
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/1310220
DOOM 3 will use P2P System?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August
25, @09:19AM
from the
i'll-believe-it-when-I'm-fragged-on-it
dept.
Ant writes "From Page 6 of FiringSquad's
QuakeCon 2002 Postmortem article: John Carmack said
something at the end of the Q&A about how the
multiplayer will be only four players? Tim: After 2 hours of
talking up at the podium, sometimes you leave a few details
out. Doom 3 multiplayer will be fully scalable. It will be a
peer to peer system. We haven't started working on it yet.
Tell everyone not to panic - it will be fine. John just forgot
to mention it'll be scalable past four players. It's hard to
give a hard number because we haven't started working on
it yet. Right now we're focused on making Doom 3 a
kickass, over the top single player game."
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I finally let go of my Irix Magic desktop and window manager
and evaluated several other window managers. Having lost my 10 years
of customization with my X10 and then X11 desktop at one point
at UCI, I promised myself that I'd never get attached to
another WM.  I limped along in the default Gnome desktop, I
had a few unsuccessful stabs at the Solaris open view
desktop, but nothing really stuck.   Because of this along
with SGI's love of pre-configured, pre-compiled freeware[1],
I never really made the jump from Irix to Linux either.
After installing the enlightenment WM, I have to say, I am
really enlightened.  It's definitely a far cry from the no frills
first look from previous versions.  It's only on version 0.17,[2]
but it's a careful balance between simplicity, performance,
(fun) features, applications, and ease of customization.  The
number of themes they have on freshmeat is amazing. [3] After
less than an hour or two of "nesting" I already have almost
all my menus and controls setup just the way I want.
I definitely recommend this to any Irix desktop holdouts.  It's
a great way to refresh your machine SGI without having to bite the
bullet and rebuild it as a Linux machine.
Greg
[1] http://freeware.sgi.com/
[2] http://www.enlightenment.org/
[3] http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/60/?topic_id=60
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