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A short summary about Open Source Command & Conquer

the last few weeks i got interested in how to write an RTS game. as an old die hard fan of c&c red alert (one) i began to search the net. i knew a few years back there was a project that took the released sourcecode of C&C and tried to evolve it. So what is there at the moment? The situation is somewhat confusing: There are 3 projects under sourceforge: 1)freeCnC 2)freeRA 3)openredalert those were created in that order. every one of them was created by taking the code of the former. freeCnC was the first project. as far as ive seen it was the also the biggest project. it seems to be dead currently.it aimed to support C&C Tiberian Dawn as well as Red Alert. they made the first port to linux, there was also support for multiplayer over tcp. it seems that (like for majority of such projects) being able to run it on linux was the utmost important target.... freeCnC is also relying on Boost (as well as on SDL and SDL_mixer). if you are not used to boost, i guess its a bit diffic

Next psychonautics.... salvia again

yesterday i used up the rest of my salvia divonorum. at first i took about 1g of my 5x extract of salvia and mixed them with tobacco. after smoking it i felt quite dizzy, but hard to tell how much of that was because of the tobacco smoked without filter. as no hallucinations took place i then rolled another one containing nearly no tobacco but dried pure salvia and another 1g of the 5x extract.  results? well, i felt dizzy, and inducing trance was easy. on the other hand, still no hallucinations. this time though i did not feel as i was observed like i did last time.... so maybe thats a plus?  :) i then decided to make some music. it didnt really feel anything different than from normal. i decided i will buy some more. mainly to have something at home if i decide to do some shamanistic journey again at some point in the future. for this, this stuff seems to be potent.  for the rest, i dont know..... it just doesnt seem to work properly for me cheers