Re: [vox] lokigames book discount for lugs

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.orMAPSg>]

begin: Micah Cowan <micah@cowanbox.com> quote
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:12:28PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > if you ever wanted to order a game ported by loki, now is the time to
> > do it...
> > 
> > they have an online ordering service.   :)
> 
> If anyone decides that Loki's Rune looks pretty damn good (which it
> does), just keep in mind that it requires a combination of swap and
> physical memory of 512MB (just for loading in between levels - sounds
> like *supremely* crappy programming if you ask me).  If you have
> kernel 2.4.*, make that total physical memory or total swap, since
> (according to Loki) Linux 2.4 "effectively" sets aside a chunk of swap
> equal to physical memory.
> 
> This really burned me - I can't play until I've bought more memory or
> a new hard-drive (which I'm planning on doing anyway).
 
i just ordered rune yesterday.  it DOES look pretty good.   :-)

on their website, they give the requirements:

   RAM 64 MB RAM minimum, 128 MB RAM recommended
   (512 MB combined RAM and swap required)

micah, can't you set the amount of swap via kernel args?  something like
swap=XXX?

have to admit, i don't think i've ever seen a game require this kind of
resource...

if you get it working in the next week, i'd be interested in hearing your
comments on the game.   after 7 days, i'm hoping to be able to see for
myself.  :-)

pete

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