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Aliens vs Predator Linux http://icculus.org/avp/
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This is an unofficial Linux port of the Fox Interactive / Rebellion
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Developments game, Aliens Verses Predator.
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The port is currently under development; it is not yet "suitable for
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end users." Hopefully this status will change in the not-so-distant future.
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Obviously this README is totally incomplete, and will probably remain so for
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quite a while, so I'll just try to list a few important notes.
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The original copyright statement for the source code:
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"The source code to Aliens Vs Predator is copyright (c) 1999-2000 Rebellion
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and is provided as is with no warranty for its suitability for use. You may
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not use this source code in full or in part for commercial purposes. Any use
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must include a clearly visible credit to Rebellion as the creators and
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owners, and reiteration of this license."
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Take that as you will.
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You can find the original source code and other related tools at:
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http://www.avpnews.com/mods/tools/
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The source code that was released only works with Aliens vs Predator Gold.
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In the future I'd like this port to support Gold, Regular and the three
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demos. Plus, I am told that the Regular edition does seem to work by
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renaming a file or two.
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At least with the Gold edition, a number of files are encoded on the CD. So
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you would need to install the game in Windows (VMware works also) in order
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to get this to work. Currently wine does not work because it fails the CD
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Check.
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The full motion sequences cannot be played because they are encoded with
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proprietary codecs (Bink and Smacker). But I do not think they will be
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greatly missed.
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More information about the game and the series can be found at
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http://www.avpnews.com.
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Last, but surely not least:
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Thanks go out to Chuck Mason for testing and the OpenAL code, Dan Olson for
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trying the code out with the Regular version, and Ryan C. Gordon for hosting
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this project.
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