01-16-2009
Shortly before Christmas my old and trusted laptop also died (background light of the display is not working any more and replacing a display on a laptop is costing more than a new one usually), so i can relate to what you are going through.
I bought a new HP Pavilion dv7, which runs quite fine with Fedora Core 10 in the 64-bit variant (this is actually something which doesn't work with Windows). I still struggle with the WiFi and the sound (see
here), but VMware was installed without problems and runs an XP installation finely. Actually i too like to play games. ;-))
I downloaded the VMware 30-day-test workstation, created some machines and now use the non-charge player to run them.
Good luck to you in finding and installing another machine of your liking.
bakunin
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atris(1) atris(1)
NAME
atris - Tetris-like game with a twist for Unix
SYNOPSIS
atris [options]
DESCRIPTION
Alizarin Tetris includes multi-player support, user-extensible color, shape and sound styles, can use TCP/IP networking and features a few
different AI opponents.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Command line help.
-b, --bg
Flaming background (default).
-n, --noflame
No flaming background.
-s, --sound
Enable sound effects (default).
-q, --quiet
No sound effects.
-w, --window
Windowed display (default).
-f, --fullscreen
Full-screen display.
-d=<X>, --depth=<X>
Set color depth (bpp) to X.
-r=<X>, --repeat=<X>
Set the keyboard repeat delay to X (1 = Slow Repeat, 16 = Fast Repeat).
EXAMPLES
To run this game the standard way, type:
# atris &
To run this game in fullscreen mode, type:
# atris --fullscreen &
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
Atris home page
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~weimer/atris/
Pascal Giard September 4, 2004 atris(1)