Still wondering what the “secret” game they’re working on right now is…
Well, there will be Bandits, Shadowgrounds: Survivor and that “secret game”, probably all comming this year? Who knows, maybe not..
And then there is also the Unigine game by the guys who develop the engine, they said that it’s planned to release this year, also for Linux.

Instead of the Witcher I’d love to see some stuff with really deep story like “Gothic” or “Risen” (the next game by Piranha Bytes, a bit similar to Gothic, but since their old publisher has the rights for the Gothic series, they couldn’t call it Gothic, it’s also in a different world with a different backstory, but still similar in a way)

@Max :
I own an ATI Radeon 4870HD video card, and I’m using the ATI/AMD proprietary drivers – and it’s not that bad as you might think.

It’s far from perfect but most games have no problems with it, I do get a random crashes sometimes when playing Sacred Golod, but those crashes happen so rarely it’s hardly a problem.
Prey runs almost perfectly except some slowdowns that also happen very rare.
RTCW runs almost perfectly except one bug that I was having that ceases the game to crash (at the crypt level, when the fire bosses throws fire at you).

The thing with the ATI/AMD drivers is that every new release fixes a lot of bugs but introduce new bugs that weren’t in their older releases.

Overall I can’t say that their drivers are very bad, but I never used NVIDIA video cards with Linux so I can’t tell about their “bugs” if any.

About the OpenGL to DirectX book, I’ve found this one at tuxgames : http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?&gameref=80
Not really about porting but it’s a start.
There are other books on Linux gaming/OpenGL ,if you want I can search them for you, but no …nothing about porting from DirectX to OpenGL.

@Michael :
Hello to you to ;)
As you know we are REALLY miss GOOD RPG games on Linux (Sacred is more Hack-n-slash game then RPG), I would really like to see “The Witcher EE” ported to Linux, they even used modified but Linux friendly Aurora Engine , is there ANY chance to see a Native Linux client of The Witcher ?

Witcher : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher_(video_game)
Aurora Engine : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Engine

Thanks
Maxim.

Maybe LGP is gonna get some AAA titles in the years to come.
You guys might want to check out “Rage”. If id doesn’t release binaries you might be able to get some deal with them. I’m kind of worried about them releasing binaries especially since they’ve been bought by some other company a few days ago.
I think it was the head company of bethesda.

Is there actually any good lecture out there about porting directx to opengl?
I’ve been looking for some and have a good knowledge of python and java and a decent knowledge of c.
I couldn’t find any decent lecture about it anywhere on the net or in real book shops and “just starting” ain’t always easy.
If you know of any good reading material it’d be nice if you could point it out.

Only shame on linux systems right now is that only nvidia cards have good drivers while ati cards are the better ones hardware wise, ati doesn’t use those crappy capacitors that nvidia uses…
A few days ago my gtx 260 started to crash, now i somehow resolved the crashing problem and it just squeals when launching complex 3d applications. (reaches from modelling software to 3d games as x3…, strangely enough stuff like tremulous or et quake wars does not make the card squeal like crazy…)
Seriously, i can’t take that squealing anymore and i even heard that they don’t exchange those cards… so i might buy a new one… i would buy an ati card, but their drivers are bad right now. Maybe i should wait till their rewrite reached a higher level.
You can even hear the squaling through the closed tower and with headphones on and the sounds on max volume…
It’s especially annoying while modelling stuff, on every turn of the model the card squeals.

When looking at Tuxgames website I see that Majesty is number 5 on the overall top sellers – very impressive !
Could you provide such statistics on LGP like you did with Tuxgames – it’s always interesting to look at, specially at the “Current Top Sellers” that change places almost daily (and I wonder when will Sacred get to the “Overall” list ;) ).