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This game is so cute that even girls mock it!

In a few months, coming to a store near you.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
http://www.stalker-game.com/index_eng.html
http://www.russobit-m.ru/eng/games/oblivion/
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/stalker/
Scarier than DOOM3, prettier than Half-Life 2.

Check out the screenshots and the trailers, they will blow your away.

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/paink iller/painkiller_sp_demo_setup.exe.html

VCDEasy burning software

Medal of Honour: Allied Assult Spearhead Multiplayer Demo

There's lots of others..

Known mirrors:

• Primary FTP courtesy of Primer: here. Please use passive mode, or the FTP connection won't work.
  
• http mirror from pomac.
  
• BitTorrent from 3DGamers.com.
  
• http mirror from 3DGamers.com.
  
• http mirror in Sweden from fredan.org.
  

Known mirrors:

• Primary FTP courtesy of Primer: here. Please use passive mode, or the FTP connection won't work.
  
• http mirror from pomac.
  
• BitTorrent from 3DGamers.com.
  
• http mirror from 3DGamers.com.
  
• http mirror in Sweden from fredan.org.
  

Direct link to bittorrent: http://www.3dgamers.com/torrents/games/postal2/Mis sions/postal2mpdemo-lnx-1407.tar.bz2.torrent

Definitely Cube! It's like a basics version of half-life for free.

http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

My favorite free game actually! :)
3D Gamers is even giving cube a little publicity
They are advertising for Unreal Tournament but its cube in the screenshot hehe

The IRC channel for this game is:

server: irc.gamesnet.net
channel: #cube

Topic is : public release HOPEFULLY the 21st, but for sure this year still (that's a promise)

So should give you an idea that its going to get a facelift quite soon :)

I remember this game. It was about running all over a post-apocolyptic city, picking up and dropping off fares with a time limit, mowing down other pedestrians, jumping the taxi over things, and purchasing weapons.

If you think bittorrent is too adhoc, you've never been to 3dgamers. For every game demo or movie they provide information about, they provide a bittorrent seed. In addition, they do provide direct download mirrors, but I don't even bother anymore.

Another tip: The official bittorrent client isn't that great. You should try Azureus. It's written in Java, which sucks (flame me, I bite back), but even so I love it. In fact it might be the only java program that I like now that I think about it.

agreed, the Lemmings 3D really disappointed me.

Worms 3D seems to be pretty cool though if you like that sorta game, download the demo, I'll be buying it when its out.

There are 2 Call of Duty demos that you can try for yourself.

right on the mozilla.org pages. This works VERY well on one of my favorite gaming sites, 3dgamers.com. Go to any demo download page, and the very first link on each one is an automatically-seeded torrent link, provided by 3dgamers' own tracker.

Actually it's nothing new. Do you remember golgotha? That game doesn't even have a website anymore.

Here is a 3dgamers.com bittorrent link for the demo.

Funny, I run Linux and seem to recall enjoying playing:
Neverwinter Nights,
Unreal Tournament 2003,
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory,
America's Army,
Return To Castle Wolfenstein,
and Quake 3

None of which require WineX or VMWare to be installed.
Yes, there are some games that only run in Windows, but developers are starting to see how easy it is to make a Linux port and pick up some free advertising and some more sales simply for the fact that there's a native linux client.

Another game coming soon that will ship with a linux version included in the windows box is Savage.

(what was I saying about free advertising?)

I think you're wearing rose-tinted glasses here. Or, to put it less politely, I think you are out of touch with reality. Go ask a few gamers what they think about a system where one or two 'new' (read: the last six months to a year) games work on it, but oh-- oh-- we have GREAT Tetris games! I guarantee you they will laugh you right out of the room.

My idea of 'gaming' is playing 10-year-old games in emulators. But my idea of gaming is ALSO a joke to most computer users nowadays.

And incidentally, TuxRacer IS available for Windows. And so is Frozen Bubble. It is VERY EASY to port Unix software to Windows (thanks to GNU-Win32 and the like); it is VERY HARD to port Windows software to Unix (thanks to Microsoft's semi-closed specs for the Win32 API). You do the math.

How quickly you guys all forgot Catacomb Abyss and its cutting-edge EGA graphics!

The benchmark amongst benchmarks is due later this year.

I get flashbacks of this horror. No multiplay, no add-ons, and it contains only one kind of enemy, some sort of racist caracature of a Vietnamese. No wonder we lost that war, the gameplay sucked.

let's try that again:

another link

Mike

However, some of the FPS games have evolved. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, with the introduction of the ability to gain experience points/skills, and a strong focus on different classes and teamwork/coop, is terrific fun. And it runs on Linux, too!

Download here or read more about it

Terra Nova was another of their excellent games, I'd love a sequel to it, first FPS game I played with a decent, involved storyline (had just about everything, pirates, turncoats, Earth coming to destroy us), it was also pretty graphically excellent at the time, you could go from medoicre 320x240 to breathtaking 320x400!

Check out 3D Gamers. Someone mentioned them in the Unreal 2 demo thread. Clicked and started downloading right away for both. They seem to have all the latest big game downloads.

Try your downloads here:

http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/steliteforce2/s te f2_sp_demo.exe.html

At least these links don't require registration and logins.

You should be able to put one of these links in wget or your favourite ftp client with a timed retry.

Fromt he wget documentation here.

`--tries=number'
Set number of retries to number. Specify 0 or `inf' for infinite retrying.

`--wait=seconds'
Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals. Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the server load by making the requests less frequent. Instead of in seconds, the time can be specified in minutes using the m suffix, in hours using h suffix, or in days using d suffix. Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that Wget can wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.

Adi Gadwale.

Bada bing

More mirrors are here:
yes, here
I'm getting 85 kbps off of Utah at the moment.

And I tried to submit it:

2003-04-01 17:32:14 Duke Nukem 3D Source Released (no kidding) (articles,games) (rejected)

Either way, I'm glad its featured here to the /. community. I can't wait to see what wild crazy network/opengl implementation this thing will get.

You can download it from 3D Gamers or Fileshack, since I'm sure that 3D Realms will be quickly hosed. It was hosed on April 1st, and that was without the help of a good slashdotting.

The readme states it will run over a network (but without sound), and the soundcode is basically crap.

From what I understand, it will take some major reworking to get it running in Windows 2000/XP.

What, you mean like in Popoulus on the Amiga?

So, like Magic Carpet for MSDOS.

FileFront
Nvidia
3D Gamers
Beyond Unreal
The Shack
HomeLan Fed
Aus Gamers
File Planet
Faster Files
Blue's News
Gigex
FragLand
GameSpot.

And the fastest mirror that I've tried yet was Nvidia's, though you have to download six split files and run a script to recombine them.

For those who hate fileplanet, click here for Mirrors.

3dgamers has it here

It's not the 11 minute E3 movie, but it's not the one from a couple of months ago either.

Doom III Movie

You can also check:

gamespot
more from gamespot

And get the Doom 3 legacy movie from here:

3d gamers

It doesnt have much footage from Doom 3, but it got interviews with some people from Id Software.

All links graciously ripped off: Voodoo Extreme.

(Grabbed from a NWN Forum post by Derek French - NWN Assistant Producer)

Greetings all:
We are trying to organize a list of Beta Toolset Mirrors. If you have the Toolset and have a mirror of the install files, please post them here.

Also, for your download security pleasure, here are the MD5 checksums for the individual files:

AUTORUN.INF - C14C468795575BCE73D84989262479B4
data1.cab - 181F15C7F19E07C92727D9C49E820E40
data1.hdr - B4F103D55E8FFAAA94505716A7C82DE1
data2.cab - A7B82CE88F1FAF469892FC12208655D8
ikernel.ex_ - 4D63BBFF28AFC7A69B6DEFAF048306A7
layout.bin - 26D40B394685321838E00002C30CBEE7
readme.txt - 6CD49925A70C04B3393DEF39F44F4B51
setup.bmp - 03A01D22277FFC06F91B475696946B81
Setup.exe - 1AEB989E361AF85F5099DE3DA25457F4
Setup.ini - FEB5DB091554FE2E65CFED8E2E9D292A
setup.inx - 5AFB35300108D078A2B942DD85759E45
FilePlanet version: NWN_Tools_BETA.EXE - 6D4B52FE7264C16BE9A0A3B506E9456C

MIRROR LIST: 3D Gamers Link
Baron Bosse Link
FilePlanet Link
gec Link Link Link

http://130.237.161.56/NWN_Tools_BETA.EXE

AusGamers
(Sydney Australia)

Cruel? Yes. True? Hardly. I claim Shenanigans on you, sir!

Compared to the PC, it's a higher ratio? Really?
Have you seen the volume of crappy PC games to
crappy Mac ones? Ratios work both ways.

I'll take a Marathon or an EV
over Mortyr pretty much any day
of the week.

That's not to say all PC games are bad, Hell I
just finished Jedi Knight II and it rocked.

Regarding Wolf3D:
It wasn't the very first first-person game-- that title belongs to "Ultima Underworld" (1992), released a few months earlier from Looking Glass Studios....

Catacomb Abyss came out in December, 1991. Dig those EGA graphics!

"Good point, but do you know who made Catacomb Abyss? That's right, id Software. Seems it all keeps coming back to them. Sp00ky, eh?"

Emh, no.
It was not made by ID Software, it was made by a publisher named Softdisk. The only connection between Catacomb Abyss, and ID Software, is the little known fact that the engine used by Catacomb Abyss was made by John Carmack, and is an earlier version of the engine that powers Wolf3D. :)

As a matter of fact, my plan is to release the "breakout" boot screen in two versions:

• The normal version would allow you to select any operating system and to boot at any time
• The "game freak" version (a.k.a. "waste of time" version) would not let you boot your computer until you have passed at least the first level. If you want to select the second OS in the list, then you would have to pass the second level, and so on...

I could even release an even nastier version that would not let you boot anything until you have passed all levels. Then you would really have to think twice before rebooting... <evil grin>

P.S.: my site seems to be /.ed for the moment. I suggest that you wait until tomorrow before downloading these boot screens, in order to save some bandwidth today. In the meantime, I encourage you to visit 3D Gamers and have some fun.

First 3D-Glasses
Next 3D games.
Then Doritos 3D
Now 3D-Memory Chips
What's the next?

Don't hammer the server too much, though. There're limited login spaces, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Gameplay movies:
MPEG file
Zipped File

The demo is available from here..
3dgamers [download link]
or here
FilePlanet [download link]

No accusations re: Karma, please. I'm at the cap. And Wizardry 6 and 7 were the best RPGs I've ever played.

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Yes, it is. Here's a link for the really lazy... Wait, it didn't work. 3d gamers has it, though. Follow the clicker on Blues News if you think you're smart enough, jackass.... :)

"Quirky" is wearing a starfleet uniform to work.
"Quirky" is NOT playing hookey for a month, not bathing, not showing up until the afternoon, not working on what is important to your employer, and not producing anything useful.

Logitech and Labtec both make 3D input devices (I think they may be the same company now). These both work very well for manipulating 3d objects, since you can rotate & translate around multiple axes at the same time. They aren't useful with current GUIs and are expensive, but they work well in CAD software.
Before Labtec bought Spaceball IMC, Spaceball made a ~$100 SpaceOrb 360 which is great for first person shooter games. I'm pretty sure they've been discontinued, though.

Gamespot have the WRONG version of the Wolfenstein test. Their version is an older version so you should download it from either Fileplanet, Bluesnews or 3D Gamers.

OK, Midi Maze was on the Atari ST, but we're talking about the 15 most influential games, not most influential DOS/Windows games. If you want a good list, use CNet's Hall of Game Innovation list.

How about Blake stone ?

Not many people seem to have heard of it, probably rightly so. :)

ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/sou rce/q1source.zip ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgam es/idstuff/source/q1source.zip ftp.3 dgamers.com/pub/3daction/00archives/quake/unsuppor ted/q1source.zip ftp2 .3dgamers.com/pub/3daction/00archives/quake/unsupp orted/q1source.zip

ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/sou rce/q1source.zip ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgam es/idstuff/source/q1source.zip ftp.3 dgamers.com/pub/3daction/00archives/quake/unsuppor ted/q1source.zip ftp2 .3dgamers.com/pub/3daction/00archives/quake/unsupp orted/q1source.zip

• FilePlanet
  
• id Software
  
• MnGamers.com
  
• Meccaworld
  
• 3D ActionGamers
  
• Gaminggroup.com
  
• Blue's News
  
• Queensland Gamers League in Australia (QGL)
  
• Avault
  
• German Mirror at GXP.de
  
• Stomped FTP2