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Old 03-13-2008
Play Windows games on Linux with PlayOnLinux

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!


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ace-of-penguins(6)						   User Commands						ace-of-penguins(6)

NAME
ace-of_penguins - Solitaire-games with penguin-look SYNOPSIS
ace-canfield ace-freecell ace-golf ace-mastermind ace-merlin ace-minesweeper ace-pegged ace-solitaire ace-spider ace-taipei ace-taipedit ace-thornq OPTIONS
None. DESCRIPTION
From the author's intro.html: "The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)" ace-canfield Solitary card-game ace-freecell Solitary card-game ace-spider Solitary card-game ace-solitaire Solitary card-game ace-thornq Solitary card-game ace-golf Another solitary card-game ace-mastermind Guess a secret combination of colors. ace-merlin Classical puzzle, rather frustrating. ace-minesweeper Find all hidden mines in a minefield. ace-pegged Classical board game. ace-taipei Asian puzzle, remove pairs of equal stones. ace-taipedit Editor for your own ace-taipei levels. KEYS
All games use the same library of functions and thus the same keys: F1 Online help. Esc Esc or "Q" to leave the game. NOTES
The upstream author DJ Delorie has written an informative webpage which is installed in /usr/share/doc/ace-of-penguins/intro.html The original binaries were renamed to include prefix ace-* to avoid name clashes. BUGS
If you encounter any bugs in this package, please report them to the Debian Bug Tracking System at http://bugs.debian.org/. ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
Other games in /usr/games AUTHORS
Programs are by DJ Delorie, some by Martin Thornquist. This manual page was written 1999-09-09 by Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated 2007-09-03 by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. ace-of-penguins 2012-03-23 ace-of-penguins(6)