Wildfire's 0 A.D. Game Progresses With New Alpha

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Phoronix: Wildfire's 0 A.D. Game Progresses With New Alpha

After being in development as a closed-source game for more than eight years, this past summer the 0 A.D. game was open-sourced by Wildfire Games. A month later, the first alpha release of this real-time strategy came emerged. Now three months after being one of the newest open-source games for Linux / Windows / Mac OS X, a second alpha release is available for testing with many advancements...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODY5Mg

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Also on the technical end 0 A.D. no longer requires libtxc_dxtn.so or the force_s3tc_enable option in the .drirc since the binary now forces S3TC for you with a setenv call:

setenv("force_s3tc_enable", "true", 0);

Unfortunately this doesn't work with the r300 gallium driver since it doesn't support the force_s3tc_enable, neither via the env variable or .drirc. The only way to get S3TC support with r300 gallium is to install libtxc_dxtn.so (bug #29012).

See also:
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/CompressedTextures