Finally got my copper cooler delivered so I can test my #Radxa Dragon Q6A #SBC and man this thing is insane, if my use of a microSD would not hold it back, then you could fool someone to think its a regular PC, also first SBC to play #OpenArena flawless that old game beats those normally.
I hope Radxa finally gets out a good active cooling solution or case for this SBC, playing OpenArena got the SoC up to 69 C but for desktop usage a passive cooler works fine.
Being around FOSS a while sometimes you don't realize how formative certain games are, like I think mentally because I was around when Linux had nowhere near the spread it does now, being the kid who played Tux Racer feels like a very personal, almost private experience. Who played that?
But then you run across people who say, "Oh, OpenArena was a huge part of my youth, I'd play it all the time after school" and it hits you how important these games are, especially with economies being what they are today. Even dropping ten bucks on an older title like Quake 3 might be prohibitive.
FOSS games and especially FOSS spinoffs of games are even more important now with a growing awareness of the monstrous behaviour of game studios and publishers. I'm super into Quake 4 right now, but can I really ask people who didn't buy it on launch in 2005 to throw money at Bethesda today? I can't.
And that makes me sad. It feels like there's a piece of history being lost here, like I don't expect Quake 4 to have some renaissance on the level of Quake 1, but it does feel like the clock is ticking because it was never open-sourced.
A friend joked we could name a FOSS spinoff "OpenStrogg", heh.
#quake1 #quake4 #quake3 #openarena #arenafps #foss #linux #tuxracer
Server V1:
./oa_ded.x86_64 +set sv_hostname "HASSMEISTERS" +set dedicated 2 +set bot_enable 1 +set timelimit 15 +set fraglimit 15 +set g_gametype 0 +set g_allowVote 1 +set sv_maxclients 5 +set sv_allowDownload 1 +set g_mapRotationEnabled 1 +set d1 "map dm6ish; set nextmap vstr d2" +set d2 "map oa_koth2; set nextmap vstr d3" +set d3 "map am_galmevish2; set nextmap vstr d4" +set d4 "map wrackdm17; set nextmap vstr d5" +set d5 "map oa_koth1; set nextmap vstr d1" +vstr d1
Hola, para los que saben y los que no, vamos a jugar mañana OpenArena online. Nos estaremos conectando desde matrix, donde chateamos y ponemos la info. Voy a tratar de pasar lo importante por aca por mastodon. A continuación el link del grupo y del post principal que actualizaré xd
Hola fedigamers!
El viernes hay juego de OpenArena (toma nota 😉). Si quieren jugar, compartan este post que eventualmente editaré para añadir el link o información de conexión.
Para los que no han jugado, es un juego de disparos en primera persona parecido al Calof Duti™ o a Halo. Está basado en Quake 3 que no lo he jugado pero seguro muchos de uds sí. Es facil de entender, yo mismo lo empecé a jugar hace 1 mes xD
La info:
📅 Fecha: 20 Junio 2025
🕔 Hora de inicio: 5pm (utc-4) | 4pm (utc-5) | 3pm (utc-6)
⌛ Duración: ~1h
Información para conectarse: por venir...
edit: Hay una sala de Matrix pa chatear
https://matrix.to/#/#el_sótano_gamer:matrix.org
estoy aprendiendo recién tons tengamen paciencia 🙏🦧
#fedijuegos #gameevents #TKZgaming #gaming #fedieventos #openarena #freesoftware
Noche de OpenArena
#gaming #linuxgaming #opensource #GamingOnLinux #videojuegos #videogames #openarena
Quien se apunta pa un Open Arena el viernes en la tarde?
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