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Chocolate Duke3D - educational, compilable port of original Duke 3D

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Posting a link from an article on the front page is something we have to stop doing. This was a link from another article currently on the front page (link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224954 and post referring to it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 ).

Why?

I may never have found this link unless someone had posted it to the front, as I don't have time to read through ALL the articles.

Had you looked at the front page in the past hour you would have seen the original article (and if you looked in the first page of the article you would see the reference)

I can appreciate your argument if the article weren't at the top page, but when this post was submitted the other post was on the front (and still is). This behavior reduces the diversity of the top page.

FYI, you might find this useful: http://rewindhn.com/

Thanks!

OK, I'll explain why I submitted this. I read the blogpost (but not all of the HN discussion). The mention of Chocolate Duke3D was prominent in the blogpost but was something I wouldn't have looked into had I not had the time to read to the bottom of the post, which is often the case.

That said, I figured other people are in that same boat. But more importantly than that, I think the quality of the project deserves the extra (if redundant) spotlight. The blog post in its own is a great read, but the author went way beyond a normal open-source contribution by improving and making convenient a large section of archaic, clunky code. This is an incredibly cool, well-intentioned project...someone devoted his time to doing the kind of work that programmers hate to do for their own in-production code, with the goal of educating...and the code repo and the good-willed spirit behind it deserves the attention.

This is the "cleaned up" version of the Duke3D source code by Fabien Sanglard (the guy who wrote the excellent Q3 code review [1], Doom3 code review [2] , and just today the Duke3D code review [3]).

He found the source code so hard to read through that he cleaned it up and created this project to help others learn from it.

(summarizing what he said in his Duke3D review)

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php [2] http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php [3] http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/index.php

Awwww, I thought someone was selling Dukes made of chocolate.

He doesn't make it clear whether this is a from-scratch port, or whether it's based off of the same port he reviewed in his article.

Linux port is not tested at all !!!!

Well, get on it :)

I've only been trying to get it to build on Linux for a few minutes, but there are a few obstacles along the way.

IMHO, the author should remove Linux from the README unless he intends to really make it build on that platform, if the goal is, after all, "Portable and compiling in one click on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux". No Makefile, configure or CMakeLists.txt is provided with the source, and the unix_compat.h file is missing from the sources.

Edit: I'll probably continue with my attempt to compile it manually tomorrow...

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