What is on Your Mind?

I was going to say...if your running a 32 bit OS...you have 5 gigs of RAM just eating up power...can't wait for the day when the gaming companies finally get into the 64 bit world and I can go ahead with putting a new gaming system together...

Those were fun days...himem.sys was a godsend...mapping to the upper memory blocks to free up enough base memory just so Wolfenstein would run...I managed to get 610k free...had to force some base processes into the upper memory region to do it... dos scripting.



I quit "hardcore" gaming a few years back...trying to keep a job while getting only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night (1 or 2 on weekends) isn't something middle aged geeks can handle for long...good thing for coffee and dew.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Medal of Honor, Quake 3 Arena and Quake 4 are a few that will run on linux
and are fun

Too bad that minesweeper isn't included inside the definition of 'computer games'. I'm pretty good at it. It developes your analytical and mathematical thinking.
There was a game I used to play when I was very little. I don't know how it's called, but the main character was a rabbit (or a bunny) that had to collect keys or something in different worlds - there was a field world, and a chess world, and a beach world and a snow world. I wonder how it's called. I think I was pretty good at it.
But that's it, I never played any "popular" games.
If you can recommend on anything that doesn't include war or violence, and that is good for beginners, I'd love to know. (And the most important thing is that it won't be addicting. Yeah, that's a hard one.)

Ohhh....that is a tough one...Myst used to be a really fun puzzle type 3D game with no blood and guts. There are more games out there like it. You would probably like it...it's classified as a "point and click" 3D adventure game.

Here is a list of games very similar in play style:

point and click adventure reviews and news at GameSpot

I voted 'almost never', but its not that simple. I'll go long stretches without playing games then have short stretches in which I play them a lot. Dwarf Fortress is a current favorite. Its an odd thing... Its vaguely like simcity simulated down to individual-person level, and by "person" I mean "short, angry, and flammable".

It is still very alpha, and it shows. The interface is somewhat inscrutiable, and its quite buggy, but the bugs are usually metagame errors and hilarious: "flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy", "mayor ordered himself beaten for failing to make crystal glass", "goblins teleport to capture location on fire when dropped in lava", "amputee liason leaves an extra sock and shoe on the map edge whenever she arrives", and so forth.

Ok, that's definitely getting looked at when I get home
Cheers!

I've just recently started playing Eve Online. It's my first MMORPG, so far it's pretty good but I'm already starting to see that it's not going to be as easy as I'd hoped to remain independent and play the roaming type instead of working in consistent groups.
Actually, on that note; does anyone here play it? Maybe we should start up a unix.com Corporation

I was once a nethack kind of guy. I recently bought a Wii and am into Madden Football and Wii Sport.