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Quake III code open sourced under GPL

« H E Games :: Dee-Ann LeBlanc :: email
posted Friday, 16 September 2005
Following in Id Software's tradition of releasing the source code to its older games under the GPL, the code to Quake III Arena and Quake III Team Arena is now available for download. Those who like to get down and dirty into how some of these popular games work should be able to have some "fun" (well, fun for those types of folks, eye-crossing confusion for many others) learning and tweaking that one.

On this vein:

If you could get one piece of non-latest-generation software open sourced that hasn't been, what would it be, and why? Doesn't have to be games. What do you want to learn from or play with?

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comments (2)


1. Kevin W. Peters left...
Tuesday, 27 September 2005 7:24 pm

Adobe PageMaker

Being a Graphic Designer by trade with a degree in Network Administration, I'm in an awkward position. I like the stability and reliability of Linux, but I'm constantly having to get on a Windows machine at work (boss HATES the Mac and refuses to buy one) to do my work. PageMaker would be great to have a chance to play around with to try my hand at porting it to Linux to give a stable DTP app. Scribus is cool and all, but it runs entirely too slow on every machine I've tried it on. More than half a page of text slows it down to the point of useless. Other than that, everything else I need for work is already available and stable.


2. Dee-Ann LeBlanc left...
Tuesday, 27 September 2005 7:53 pm

Or you could try to talk Adobe into putting out PageMaker for Linux, not that they have a great track record of bothering to do this. :) Another option would be to help the Scribus project improve the efficiency of their file handling. This is probably where I would start. I don't know how aware they are of the problem so you could start there, and if you're not a coder at all you can offer to help do detailed testing so they can narrow down the problems.

Scribus is still pretty young software. I have high hopes that it will continue to improve over time.