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It has a category system so all articles will be in a category and you can view by category. I will add searching and searching by category for the articles that shouldn't be hard.

Auto save would be tricky as that would use some form of javascript which i'm no good with at all heh but with jquery it may be possible, saving articles as drafts would be easy to do though to publish later so that i can add from the get go.

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I say, that is a really rough preview indeed. :p

Some other ideas from the top of my head:

more advanced way of managing articles with easier formatting tools;
perhaps a temporary storage to auto-save in case of browser crashing;
associating a thumbnail image with an article, displaying it next to the excerpt on the main page;
easy and quick article browsing and search, perhaps a tagging system.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 5166, member: 1"Client issues are being fixed by Desurium, it's already a massive step forward you should try that out. Desura themselves really need to put a bit of money into the open source devs pockets IMO.

Seconded, though it has its own issues - such as not finding any server to download its files (happened on several games here, 3079 and Super Office Stress for example. But seeing where it's headed is a huge comfort compared to the "official" client, even now. :)

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It was pointed out to me that John Carmack does talk about Doom 3 BFG edition and source releases in the Quakecon keynote. Here's a [URL='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk&t=9m']direct link to that part[/URL] (the whole thing is 3.5 hours long :) ).

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They do need to get a new release out.

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Quoting: "Kame, post: 5165, member: 102"Eh, it's everything with Desura. The lack of patches, the lack of actually having a dev anymore, the only starting about a third of the time and just crashing the rest. The crashing when trying to fetch updates. etc etc

Client issues are being fixed by Desurium, it's already a massive step forward you should try that out. Desura themselves really need to put a bit of money into the open source devs pockets IMO.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 5163, member: 1"To be fair gaslamp as just as much to blame they constantly botch up the Desura patches too.

Eh, it's everything with Desura. The lack of patches, the lack of actually having a dev anymore, the only starting about a third of the time and just crashing the rest. The crashing when trying to fetch updates. etc etc

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And I do not even have Realm of the Diggle Gods yet. :eek:

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To be fair gaslamp as just as much to blame they constantly botch up the Desura patches too.

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Yeah, I just went ahead and bought the DLC on steam. The steam version still comes with updated Linux binaries and I got tired of dealing with Desura.

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I like this new editor.

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Hmm... and I felt cheap for grabbing it when it was only 75% off. :P

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Microsoft dropped support for OpenGL with the release of Windows Vista. There were articles about it all over tech sites.

Hovewer it didn't meant that hardware vendors (nVidia, AMD) ripped OpenGL from their drivers. RAGE from id Software still uses OpenGL as graphic API and DirectX for input and sound.

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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5140, member: 6"It seems to mostly be that the development tools are harder to understand and use than for some other engines.

Yeah, this is the impression that I get (or maybe more that the tools aren't quite as mature as say, the UDK or Unity stuff is).

I was considering Unigine for a project I have on the go, but at the end of the day, their licences are a bit much for my budget.

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Quoting: "Kame, post: 5145, member: 102"That's a bit misleading. Currently METRO STYLE apps can't do opengl. Normal apps, which is probably all valve will ever release considering you have to go through the windows store to sell metro apps, will still be able to do OpenGL.

That's good to know. Last I heard, Windows 8 didn't support OpenGL. But then that was earlier in the year.

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Quoting: "Mario J. Gaida, post: 5110"Silversword 2 will get a linux client if the funding is successful.

Kind Regards
Mario J. Gaida

Cool!

Let's hope a few other developers dares to commit!

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Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 5118, member: 93"yes confusing a bit
yes $20 you get all games

Thanks! I've pledged my bit now. This time I also spotted the graphics showing the support levels, not sure if they have been added since or if I'm going blind. :confused:

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Quoting: "MyGameCompany, post: 5131, member: 68"Considering Microsoft has announced that Windows 8/Metro will not support OpenGL, I rather suspect that Valve won't bother investing time in that option.

That's a bit misleading. Currently METRO STYLE apps can't do opengl. Normal apps, which is probably all valve will ever release considering you have to go through the windows store to sell metro apps, will still be able to do OpenGL.

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You do realize one of the signs of an addict is trying to get other people to become addicts, right Liam? :P

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It seems to mostly be that the development tools are harder to understand and use than for some other engines.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 5132, member: 1"I hope to see more games actually come out for Linux using this engine in the future, it's the Engine that powers Oil Rush (the only Unigine powered game currently on Linux that I know of)

the engine seems to be able to do a lot but somehow it simply is not used that much, that seems a shame but i guess developers seem to have a reason to ignore it? even wasteland using another engine for linux that still iks in beta

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You need to come back, it's far better than ever!

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This is one of the my most favorite game..yuppie!!

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I'm staying as far away from this as I can. I have managed to overcome Minecraft addiction once, and I'm not eager to do it again :eek:

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Quoting: "MyGameCompany, post: 5131, member: 68"Considering Microsoft has announced that Windows 8/Metro will not support OpenGL, I rather suspect that Valve won't bother investing time in that option.

I don't think that will really make much of a difference. Windows 8 looks like it'll be another Vista/ME and the majority of users won't bother upgrading from WinXP/Win 7 since that's functional and what they're comfortable with, and that's where the bulk of Steam's user base is at the moment. I don't see that changing until Win 7 moves out of its support cycle (Windows 7 currently accounts for 70% of Steam users. I can see that dropping, but not enough for another platform to become dominant in a hurry unless something more significant than Windows 8 happens).

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Neat!

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Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5124, member: 122"This is pretty interesting stuff, as OpenGL often seems under appreciated on Windows. So far as I'm aware, Windows users aren't given an option to run the game in OpenGL, and it'll be interesting to see if Valve consider providing this to them (and us Wine users) in the future.

Considering Microsoft has announced that Windows 8/Metro will not support OpenGL, I rather suspect that Valve won't bother investing time in that option.

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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5127, member: 6"For a modern large game developer that is pretty much par the course though.

Definitely. There's potential for people to think that the 300fps+ figure is achievable for normal systems though, so it's worth noting that the specs are above average.

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5127, member: 6"Now that sounds to be counterintuitive.

It sounds like they're getting stuff bedded down in a 32 bit environment before delving into 64 bit (like the way they're using Ubuntu during development and then expanding to support other distros once they're through most of the iterative part of development).

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Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5125, member: 122"It's probably worth noting that their test system specs are pretty extreme. I don't know anybody running 32GB of RAM ^_^

For a modern large game developer that is pretty much par the course though.

Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5125, member: 122"Also, this is 32 bit Linux vs 64 but Windows.

Now that sounds to be counterintuitive.

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