Any Android box. Install NewPipe and VLC and other such stuff. I hear Xiaomi are popular, although at this point I don’t know if there’s any brand I would trust. So I’d prefer to make my own with a Rasp Pi or something. Same idea.
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3·1 year agoIIRC the guy who was doing the official Linux builds of the old id games was also the one who was publishing the code, so that’s probably why.
They could never publish everything they had internally, as they used proprietary or patented bits in places, so the code always needed cleaning up before GPLing it. That’s why Doom engine source was released without the sound, the Doom 3 engine had the shadowing code replaced, Quake 3 code didn’t have the single-player parts because people were still licencing it in the mid-00’s, and other such stuff.
And yes, Doom was originally developed for *nix, I think they were using NeXT machines or something like that, for development.
Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that’s why they kept it open.
I’d still prefer a separate server even if it’s only for myself:
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power efficiency, you don’t need to keep a power-hungry PC on when you don’t need it, but only an old laptop or a rasp Pi or whatever
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if your PC is down - broken, needs reinstall, having an issue that needs troubleshooting - you can still have your server stuff running
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expandability. Media server alone is good to stream movies to a TV, or to a phone over the web, and again the PC can be off
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You make an Android app, you leave the binary on Github or wherever, or even just get people to compile it themselves.
On Apple, you need to go though the whole appstore bullshit.