ETLegacy Continues Advancing Enemy Territory With OpenGL 3, OpenAL Surround Sound

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ETLegacy Continues Advancing Enemy Territory With OpenGL 3, OpenAL Surround Sound

One of my favorite Linux-native games of all time would definitely be Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Wonderful memories of that excellent id Tech 3 game and back when I had time to game on Linux, when not being challenged by early Linux GPU driver issues. This game continues to live on via the community ETLegacy open-source project and recently did issue a major update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ETLegacy-2.75-Game

[DebianLinuxero]

ETLegacy 2.75 has some big updates including an OpenAL sound back-end with support for up to 7.1 surround sound

I miss in Linux a project of hardware accelerated sound drivers.

[DMJC]

I wish someone would do an art asset overhaul of all these great native games. They always seem to modernise the engines but the gamedata looks like it did in 1999.

[dungeon]

Yeah, probably people tend to forget those io games since valveisation of linux

But those keep updating fine

[Ancurio]

I miss in Linux a project of hardware accelerated sound drivers.

Most home systems not made for professional audio work these days don't even have dedicated sound cards, it's all on the main board. Your accelerated drivers for that platform already exist though, they are the SIMD backends of the software mixers (OpenAL has them).

[DebianLinuxero]

Most home systems not made for professional audio work these days don't even have dedicated sound cards, it's all on the main board. Your accelerated drivers for that platform already exist though, they are the SIMD backends of the software mixers (OpenAL has them).

Well.

I was thinking in audio processor doing the audio tasks, like Live!, Audigy and X-FI does on Windows.

The SIMD backends may be good, but it is as if we compare a graphics software rasterizer and an accelerated one.