Two open gaming platform efforts

Posted Jan 23, 2007 20:40 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Two open gaming platform efforts by bryanlarsen
Parent article: Two open gaming platform efforts

Hmm, I'm not so sure that it is time to be counting those chickens. They are mostly open source games. The games mostly run on pre-existing windows and/or linux deployments. It would be hard to find a Gamix-compliant machine that did not already run windows or linux. Maybe the imac and/or mac pro might fit the bill?

This seems to be a PC-booter approach to PC-gaming. One of the major advantages of PC gaming is that you can use your system for other things in parallel, such as email or chat or whatever common applications get used in sync with gaming. I suppose VOIP applications are really the killer apps at the moment although I suspect they will become more folded into games over time. So call me a doubter on their whole concept, although I could easily turn out to be wrong.

But still, I wonder if they are licensing the right to ship Nvidia's drivers or if they are hoping Nvidia will turn a blind eye. And of course will anyone feel like filing a lawsuit over the GPL legal gray area each and every Gamix image will fall into.