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''Danger from the Deep'', often abbreviated as DftD, is an open-source
by Scott Parrino on The Wargamer (04 Dec 2004) In 2011 an Ars Technica article on the history ofDanger-from-the-Deep
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''Danger from the Deep'', often abbreviated as DftD, is an open-source World War II
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German U-boat simulation for PC, striving for technical and historical accuracy.
Development
The project was registered in 2003 onsourceforge.net
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and is since then developed as open source software
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under the GPLv2
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. In 2004 it reached beta status.
The game targets Multi-platform
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, supporting FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
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, Linux distributions, and Microsoft Windows by utilizing SDL and OpenGL. Hardware addressed is OpenGL 1.5 (while recommending "OpenGL 2.0 or greater") with around 256 MB of RAM
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, 1 GHz processor and common PC input devices (keyboard, mouse).
Development is intermittent. As of June 11 2020 the latest commit to the Git
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repo was May 10, 2020. The last downloadable release was May 8, 2010
Reception
A Linux Journal review from 2010 received DftD quite positive. In 2004 The Wargamer recommended the game to ''"serious sim gamers"'' which should ''"head over to Danger from the Deep's official web site and take a look."''.Behind the Lines #24by Scott Parrino on The Wargamer (04 Dec 2004) In 2011 an Ars Technica article on the history of
simulation game
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s noted ''Danger from the Deep'' as: ''"These days, submarine sims ..are kept alive by the open-source Danger from the Deep"''.
The game was downloaded between 2003 and April 2017 1.3 million times alone from SourceForge
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, chip.de
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counted another 100,000 downloads.on
chip.de
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(May 2017)
See also
External links
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