Talk between players of the game about the game ( no personal attacks )
Geo Dude
Private First Class
Posts: 99 Joined: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:50 am
Location: zzzzathura...mofo world
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by Geo Dude » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:59 pm
how did u find bz? i found it in an open gl site and im just wondering if anyone else did the same?
dango
Private First Class
Posts: 1400 Joined: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:40 pm
Location: Somewhere over there.
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by dango » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:10 pm
I found it on the default install of fedora code 1 or 2, about two years ago.
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A Vicious Muffin
Private First Class
Posts: 534 Joined: Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:25 am
Location: Drury Lane
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by A Vicious Muffin » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:18 pm
My friend showed it to me 4 years ago, although i didn't really try it until a year later.
Green Manalishi
Private First Class
Posts: 594 Joined: Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:54 pm
Location: Effingham
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by Green Manalishi » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:18 pm
a friend from an irrelevant forum. we were playing on ducati once. i have quit that forum and he must have quit the game. i'm quite thankful though.
Brave Sir Robin
Private First Class
Posts: 36 Joined: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:08 am
Contact:
joevano
General
Posts: 1863 Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:08 pm
Location: South Bend, Indiana, USA
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by joevano » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:09 am
Looking through "Projects of the Month" on Sourceforge
The Red Baron
Sergeant First Class
Posts: 987 Joined: Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:21 am
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by The Red Baron » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:21 am
looking for the old original arcade battlezone.
Beware! I'm going to clone myself and spread those clones all over the world!
Manu
Dev Monkey
Posts: 32 Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:42 pm
Location: Trujillo, Cáceres. Spain
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by Manu » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:49 am
bzflag founds me
CannonBallGuy
Private First Class
Posts: 2083 Joined: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:31 am
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by CannonBallGuy » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:20 am
It was destiny, fate. I would have found BZFlag if I had searched for anything from Cucumber Sandwiches to The Wizard of Oz.
Merry Christmas!
"Look, if I don't buy booze for the kids, I don't get any incriminating pictures to show to their parents, my business goes down the sink, my girlfriend leaves me and the baby goes on ebay. So help me search..."
"go Play With Toys urself in a dark alley u donkey ******" - Lt-Kirby2007
JumpingPat
Private First Class
Posts: 38 Joined: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:16 pm
Location: Garmeny
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by JumpingPat » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:20 pm
???
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JumpingPat on Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
delete as applicable!
Sky King
Private First Class
Posts: 166 Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:07 pm
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
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by Sky King » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:53 pm
I was searching for some database utilities on sourceforge.net for a consulting client I was working with. I can't remember how I ended up getting from there to the BZflag summary, like CBG said, perhaps a karma thing.
I used to play the original Battle Zone back in the late 70s/early 80s, so it caught my eye right away. I was a tanker in the Army briefly in the early 80s (on M-60A5s, and through the first M-1 transitions) before my military career went in a different direction. Consequently, the tank motif also piqued my curiosity.
JeffM
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 5196 Joined: Fri Dec 13, 2002 4:11 am
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by JeffM » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:20 pm
in 1997 I was asked by my roommate to help finish the windows version and get it playing nicely with windows NT and 95. At the time CRS was looking to put bzflag out as a commercial release.
JeffM
Gollum
Private First Class
Posts: 204 Joined: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:00 am
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by Gollum » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:56 pm
My cousin...i think....
Winny
Grouchy
Posts: 2381 Joined: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:27 am
Location: Ottawa eh?
Contact:
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by Winny » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:02 pm
Ice Wewe.... Played @ school, got me addicted.
Discovery
Private First Class
Posts: 179 Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:08 pm
Location: My Home
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by Discovery » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:07 pm
the internet...*gasp*
ya I never knew you could find something so special in that blob of nothingness!
SURRENDER!
strayer
Sergeant Major
Posts: 191 Joined: Sat May 24, 2003 3:54 pm
Location: Germany
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by strayer » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:52 am
During my apprenticeship I visited a Linux administration course which was kinda boring...so I had a look at the installed apps (especially games ^^) on my testing computer and found it...played it some hours there, installed it at home...got addicted
A pessimist is an optimist with experience... ;o)
ducktape
Private First Class
Posts: 1206 Joined: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:06 am
Location: Right Behind you!
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by ducktape » Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:30 am
I found it when I like first got into ubuntu in the Synaptic.
birdie
Lieutenant
Posts: 700 Joined: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:46 pm
Location: Belgium
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by birdie » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:47 am
a friend who was addicted to the game from my class. He tried to get the whole class addicted, he only succeeded with me though
Ozor Mox
Private First Class
Posts: 19 Joined: Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:24 pm
Location: England
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by Ozor Mox » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:46 am
I was searching on Sourceforge for good open source games. BZFlag is by far the best I have come across.
I've also played Freeciv, if anyone else has tried that.
chickin
Private First Class
Posts: 41 Joined: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:25 am
Location: greenville, south carolina, USA
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by chickin » Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:16 pm
My friend had it on his computer and i found out it worked for my computer to so i downloaded it.
Chickin.
GMMan
Private First Class
Posts: 186 Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 9:32 pm
Location: On the time-space continuum
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by GMMan » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:34 am
Eh... About Linux newsletter. Comes across the BZFlag link every two weeks. Some advertising... Heh.
I haven't touched BZFlag for years, but maybe sometime I'll make a comeback.
I'm on
Twitter . And I mess with webOS. This signature is not a blog.
hookah
Private First Class
Posts: 148 Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:03 pm
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by hookah » Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:20 am
I found it by chanse. If somebody knows Russian they can understand me ( ???????? ) You can translate that word if u want
BLASTER Wisconsin
Private First Class
Posts: 24 Joined: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:28 am
Location: Just outside Brew City
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by BLASTER Wisconsin » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:05 pm
Was looking around on Game Hippo 4 or 5 years ago for first person shooter games and saw it.
It was rated by other players pretty high so I downloaded it.
Took me a while to get it working correctly but .........
Ratatosk
Private First Class
Posts: 277 Joined: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:04 am
Location: Chicago, IL
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by Ratatosk » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:25 am
I was messing around on a repository and found bz and thought it was prety cool
meeba
Master Sergeant
Posts: 507 Joined: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:49 pm
Location: N. Sanity Beach
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by meeba » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:19 am
I found bzflag on Sourceforge. I was browsing sf trying to find a game similar to that 3d game on old Mac computers called Spectre.
anyone remember it? that was a badass game.