About:
Gamma Patrol is an old style, vertical scrolling space shooter. It features raytraced graphics, music, sound effects, and lots of action.

Author:
Benjamin Niemann [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(not rated)

Homepage:
http://www.odahoda.de/avop/gammapatrol/
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.odahoda.de/[..]ol/files/gammapatrol-preview-0.3.tar.bz2

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Other/Proprietary License, Shareware
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Preview	0.3	26-Jul-2001	Shareware

 Comments

[»] ... shareware?
by SalsaDoom - Jul 26th 2001 10:28:59

For what? An ancient-style clone of a bland genre? You've got to be kidding me. These days, if someone were to pay money for gaming on linux, he'd be going to Lokigames or one of the other linux-game providers.

Shareware is a windows thing, I don't think it makes much sense on a platform like linux. Also, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of clones like this available under the GPL.

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[»] Re: ... shareware?
by Benjamin Niemann - Jul 26th 2001 12:51:48


> For what? An ancient-style clone of a
> bland genre? You've got to be kidding
> me. These days, if someone were to pay
> money for gaming on linux, he'd be going
> to Lokigames or one of the other
> linux-game providers.
>
> Shareware is a windows thing, I don't
> think it makes much sense on a platform
> like linux. Also, I'm pretty sure there
> are a lot of clones like this available
> under the GPL.

No one forces you to pay for my game. If you think it's worth the money, you can pay. If you don't think so - which seems to be the case - you won't pay. So what's your problem?

And why is shareware a windoze thing? I think there should be more options than:

1) make free software for fame and some fresh air
2) work for a commercial company and do some bloody stuff you don't like

The freedom of Linux does also imply that I can freely decide how to license my product (that doesn't depend on any GPL software).

The success of Linux shows that good software doesn't need a great company behind it. But I think for several reason that GPL style development is not a good solution for entertainment stuff (see my website). Do you think we should leave the Linux game market to the big capitalists?

Sure, GammaPatrol is an ancient arcade shooter. But I wasn't able to find anything similar to it (for Linux). If you are so sure, please let me know about alternatives. There a several people who like games like this (for nostagic reasons or what ever), Perhaps you don't, but there are enough (stupid IMHO) FPS games for Linux available.

And finally, if everything else fails: simply ignore the fact that you can download the source and compile it under Linux. Then you'll find a windows binary on my website and your conception of the world is restored.

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