Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT
If you are an avid gamer, you probably dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution with Windows, because that's where you find most new cutting-edge games. But what if you could run your Windows games on Linux? PlayOnLinux is an open source Python-scripted front end that helps you install and play tons of Windows-only games -- and then some!
I have Ubunut installed on my desktop
AMD 6 Core 3.2 (will be getting the bulldozer AMD 8 Core when it releases)
16 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM
SSD
some HDD's
Nvidia 560 ti 1GB
My question is, how can I or can I even get a Win 7 VM to play games as well in a main install. Give it 10 GBs of RAM... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
Recently I installed Linux RHEL5 on my machine. It seems that I can not play sound on RHEL5. I have real player installed along with RHEL5 but, when I try to play any song, the error message comes up saying "Can not open the audio device.Another application may be using it."
Does any... (2 Replies)
I am interested in creating a list that consists of the popular games that run on Linux with atleast moderate performance ;)
Please post the list of games that you know.
Tips/Links on tweaking some games to run, may also be shared :)
Here is a list ripped from http://www.frankscorner.org :D... (2 Replies)
Hello! I need tne listings of the very simple games(like mad builders or snake) in text mode, when is running only bash. If you got one, please send me on e-mail or post it just in this thread. I also need the following programms, if you have one of them or can quickly write it, please help me:
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GAMES(1) General Commands Manual GAMES(1)NAME
4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon - time wasters
SYNOPSIS
games/4s
games/5s
games/ana [ fixwords ]
games/mandel
games/plumb [ level ]
games/smiley
games/life startfile
games/fsim
games/clock
games/catclock [ -c ]
games/fireworks
games/swar
games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ]
DESCRIPTION
There are a few games in /bin/games:
4s, 5s Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles. Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse. Rotate tiles with
buttons 1 and 3. Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.
ana Find anagrams for words typed on standard input. Anagrams can contain several dictionary words. The fixwords argument or num-
bers typed on standard input fix the number of words in the output anagrams.
mandel Compute and display Mandelbrot sets. Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.
plumb Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil and don't waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a harder
level.
smiley A game of historical importance. Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.
life Play the game of life, given an initial position. There is a library of interesting initial positions; the library is consulted
if startfile cannot be found.
fsim Pretend you're flying a Cessna.
clock, catclock
Display analog clocks. Option -c makes catclock crosseyed.
fireworks Hoist the fiery blue peter.
swar Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT. One player types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter hyper-
space, and w to accelerate. The other player uses ;, l, . and o. AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or otherwise
causes mayhem. Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.
festoon Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e). The seed can be
set to recreate a specific document. Len is sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0).
FILES
/sys/games/lib/4scores
scores of 4s games
/sys/games/lib/5scores
scores of 5s games
/sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
scores of plumb games
/sys/games/lib/anawords
used by ana
/sys/games/lib/plumb/*
miscellaneous files used by plumb
/sys/games/lib/life/*
interesting starting positions
SOURCE
/sys/src/games
GAMES(1)