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Id’s Rage coming to Linux after all (and the Hi-Tech Squad were right about D3D)

22 September 2007 10 Comments

Following an interview published on a German website, which we reported here, where it was revealed that John Carmack is no longer as committed to Linux as he has been, John himself posted on Slashdot saying “There is certainly no plans for a commercially supported linux version of Rage, but there will very likely be a linux executable made available. It isn’t running at the moment, but we have had it compiled in the past. Running on additional platforms usually provides some code quality advantages, and it really only takes one interested programmer to make it happen.”

This of course is very much in line with other Id games. If you are Linux fan, you buy the game, download the binary from their website, combine the two and bang it works.

There were lots of rumours on the Internet that Rage would be a DirectX only game (which the Hi-Tech Squad didn’t report BTW), but John has confirmed that the PC version is still OpenGL and not DirectX (although that could change).

As a side issue, why didn’t the Hi-Tech Squad add fuel to the fire over DirectX, well mainly because there will be a commerical version of Rage on Mac OS X and OS X doesn’t have DirectX only OpenGL, so there will be an OpenGL version.

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