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  1. Cut-n-Paste Karma Whoring by bellings · · Score: 5, Informative · on 25 Best Linux Games
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  2. Cut-n-Paste Karma Whoring by bellings · · Score: 5, Informative · on 25 Best Linux Games
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  8. There is also a Linux Q*Bert Clone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Where Are They Now: Q*Bert



    http://www.happypenguin.org/list?search=q*bert

  9. Re:.cab extractor for linux by Bostik · · Score: 5, Informative · on Neverwinter Nights Update

    Unfortunately the normal cab extractor does not work. That is meant for "regular" windows .cabs and it seems that Epic have their own .cab format. For reference, go read Happypenguin's current NWN comments.

  10. Nethack & Falcon's Eye are up for awards by bobz · · Score: 3, Informative · on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

    Nethack and Falcon's Eye are both currently competing for Best Free Role Playing Game and Best Free Linux Game in the Happypenguin Awards. Nethack was also nominated for Most Unique or Original Game, which seems a bit of a stretch to me. 10 or 15 years ago maybe it was original, but today?

  11. Nethack & Falcon's Eye are up for awards by bobz · · Score: 3, Informative · on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

    Nethack and Falcon's Eye are both currently competing for Best Free Role Playing Game and Best Free Linux Game in the Happypenguin Awards. Nethack was also nominated for Most Unique or Original Game, which seems a bit of a stretch to me. 10 or 15 years ago maybe it was original, but today?

  12. Nethack & Falcon's Eye are up for awards by bobz · · Score: 3, Informative · on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

    Nethack and Falcon's Eye are both currently competing for Best Free Role Playing Game and Best Free Linux Game in the Happypenguin Awards. Nethack was also nominated for Most Unique or Original Game, which seems a bit of a stretch to me. 10 or 15 years ago maybe it was original, but today?

  13. Nethack & Falcon's Eye are up for awards by bobz · · Score: 3, Informative · on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

    Nethack and Falcon's Eye are both currently competing for Best Free Role Playing Game and Best Free Linux Game in the Happypenguin Awards. Nethack was also nominated for Most Unique or Original Game, which seems a bit of a stretch to me. 10 or 15 years ago maybe it was original, but today?

  14. Re:Clues? by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1 · on How Close is the Open Entertainment Center?

    Go here to vote in HappyPenguin's Linux Game Awards

    I wonder how Quake3 would feel run from MythTV..?

  15. Re:Clues? by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1 · on How Close is the Open Entertainment Center?

    Go here to vote in HappyPenguin's Linux Game Awards

    I wonder how Quake3 would feel run from MythTV..?

  16. Re:hold on.... by The_Dougster · · Score: 1 · on New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs

    Yeah. I have an IBM P200 (20") which I essentially got for free doing a bit of Ebay wheeling and dealing with RS/6000 boxes. It will be a while before 20" LCD's are free. Also it is so heavy I loathe to carry it out to my truck to throw it away. Need a freight dolly. Now that I think about it, I did pay some shipping on it so it wasn't exactly free. Still, Ryan's Serious Sam BETA for Linux looks fan-fscking-tastic! Yessir, I like it!

  17. There must be something fishy going on by ElMiguel · · Score: 3, Insightful · on NWN Linux Client Delayed

    To all people saying Bioware is making a honest effort with this port and should be supported, please realize they are saying their movie player and sound system don't work six months after their announced release date. If the Linux gaming community wasn't too excited about getting this port to make a balanced analysis, nobody would believe in Bioware's good intentions anymore.

    Like some person in The Linux Game Tome usually comments after these announcements, "I voted Never in the poll [about when would NWN Linux Client be available] and I stand by my choice".

  18. LGP and ports. by AnonymousCowheard · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Linux Port of Disciples 2 Announced
    I am always frequenting Linuxgames.com for information, help new users run their applications on Linux, and to then throw a cape on my back and post as the Alpha Troll. I was contacted by a representative of the Linux Game Publishing group about their interest in porting their current project "Majesty" to the clean 64bit Alpha platform. LGP's main office, from what I understand, is somewhere in London and they have a small workforce in Tustin-California. I have not received word from them for about 1 month on whether they would like for me to schedule a drop-off of a good Alpha Linux|netBSD computer. For those of you that say Alhpa is dead...you are dead wrong. Also of use to commercial developers, the Alpha platform offers benefit of a clean code-path to port software to other 64bit platforms in the future.

    LGP is quite a promising group of people. They're working alongside Tuxgames to sell their software. If you support Linux, you should purchase all your software from Tuxgames. As for Happypenguin, this news is 24 hours old and Linuxgames.com posted an article before they did :-) . Happypenguin.org covers more home-brew games than Linuxgames.com, but when it comes to commercial games they both offer competitivly insightful forums. For the greatest source of gaming news in europe, HOLARSE is the place to go (PS: use babelfish).

    In fact, just now, Linuxgames.com has an article about how LGP is taking over the porting effort of Mindrover: Eruopa Project. And one last thought, Linuxgames.com doesn't censor their forums, unlike Happypenguin.org

  19. Old news.... by bobz · · Score: 1 · on Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL
    This was on happypenguin days ago and I got to download it while the server wasn't slashdotted. :)

    http://happypenguin.org/news?id=3139

  20. Re:well.. by Colin+Walsh · · Score: 3, Informative · on What's Keeping You On Windows?

    Maybe you were just listing the games that you play regularly, and you already know this; but Unreal 2k3 has Linux support in the box on CD3 and (hopefully) Neverwinter Nights should have a Linux client that you can download here within the next few weeks.

    As a Public Service Announcement(tm) to anyone who's into gaming and Linux, or is considering installing Linux, you should peruse Linux Games and The Linux Game Tome every once and a while. Maybe if people are more aware that commercial games are ported to Linux we can have fewer people trying to run Quake III in WINE (Ugh!).

    -Colin

  21. Linux has good games, laddie buck by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Informative · on LinuXbox Boots

    Interesting point, but I really doubt that this is aimed at the general consumer. It's for Joe Linux, who prides himself on doing nifty tech things with Linux.

    Okay, Tux Racer may not be the most amazing thing in the world, but it's fun for a couple hours.

    Freeciv...why is freeciv bad? You don't like civilization? There are some differences, but aside from the fact that civ had more artists (and, IMHO, a worse interface) and is a bit easier to use, not huge difference in fun factor.

    Lets consider some others:

    zangband/ToME/angband/nethack/etc: These *are* a lot of fun. Diablo has much more simplistic, boring gameplay, and it took off all over. Most variants have a pretty simple text or 2d graphics based interface without music, but some are a bit more elaborate. Be a bit of a pain to play on the controller, yes...

    Chromium BSU: flashy scrolling shooter. Could use the 3d hardware in the X-box.

    Dunno if you can just use ordinary ol' x86 binaries (particularly considering RAM usage), but:

    Quake 3 (use the 3d hardware). Not free.

    Abuse: This was a *blast* when it came out -- I played it over and over. It's looking a little dated now, but it's still a good game. Free now -- thanks crack.com.

    Pingus is apparently shaping up pretty well.

    There's part of the amazing Exile series available for Linux. (shareware)

    Maelstrom may be too "simple" for you, as it's only an astroids clone, but it was a very well known game on the Mac for a long time, and I still like it.

    While I'm not a tremendous fan of Illwinter's Conquest of Elysium II, their Dominions: Priests, Prophets, and Pretenders is a non-flashy but very deep, very good strategy game. Shareware.

    There's a DOS-style shooter from Mountain King Studios, Raptor. (shareware)

    Finally, there are all the emulators and whatnot...take a look at GNUboy, TuxNES, snes9x, DGen/SDL,
    FreeSCI, Sarien, Exult, XU4, ScummVM, Basilisk II, YAE and others.

    There are a host of Loki ports that you can't get any more except used. Lots of good stuff from LGames, though I'm not as big a fan of their stuff as some other people are.

    Finally, text-based but really, really sophisticated, good, and almost all of them free, there are text-based interactive fiction (Try Tower of Babel before giving up on this...first one I ever beat without cheating, and it's *soooooo* good). The Interactive Fiction Archive has games and players.

    Finally, many good games can be played through WINE -- Starcraft, Fallout, Max Payne, Half Life...

    These are just some of the games that I enjoy under Linux. There are lots more (admittedly, some of lower quality) available at the SDL Games Page and the Linux Games Tome.

    Linux games usually take a bit more (okay, often a lot :-) ) more effort to set up properly. But they're often very customizable, you can actually have an impact on the game design ("This game needs feature X"), and you don't have to leave the comfortable environs of Linux. And the environment is getting better, not worse.

  22. Re:Sad by Fourier · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Interview with LGames' Michael Speck

    A "legalize marijuana" badge might be inappropriate on, say LinuxGames or Happy Penguin. But this is Michael's personal development page. He wrote all the games, he wrote the website. If he wants to lobby for something totally unrelated, that's his prerogative. Deal.

  23. Re:Incorrect interpretation by geekd · · Score: 3, Informative · on Slashback: Boeing, Fraud, Fundage

    Furthermore, if it's in space, it might just be sent to a higher orbit around the earth.

    Orbital Sniper

    Make people little red stains from a few miles up.

  24. Two linux versions. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games?

    I know that there are at least two linux versions. There is Frozen Bubble and there is another one called Hex. Just go to The Linux Game Tome (Happypenguin) and search for them in the search box at the top.

  25. A few other sites: by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2 · on New Linux News Portal - LinuxDailyNews

    linux orbit
    linux journal
    OSNews.com
    The Linux Game Tome

  26. WineX is great but support the Ported Games! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on WineX 2.0

    Support people that porth the games!! I mean Wine is nice for trying to get people to use linux, but in the long run we need ported games! - - Happy Peguin - Hyperion - - Tux Games - Introversion . .. plus hunt for more!

  27. Re:Speaking of games... by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 2 · on Mandrake, SuSE Ready New Releases
    I'm wondering if anyone has any links to some nice games for Linux.

    The one I'm enjoying right now is called Adonthell (which is actually just the engine, the "episode" I'm playing is called Waste's Edge). What's nice is that the game is in the tradition of Zelda, FF, and such -- RPG, kinda -- but not so lengthy. Supposedly Waste's Edge can be finished in a night, although it'll take me 4 or 5, cause I'm slow.

  28. OT: Other Linux games... by antdude · · Score: 2, Informative · on Mandrake, SuSE Ready New Releases

    Ricky, have you checked these two Web sites yet?

    Linux Games
    The Linux Game Tone

  29. More Info and Warning by Metrollica · · Score: 3, Troll · on Animate Your LILO

    There is more info on the animated boot screen here with a nice large screenshot.

    There is also a warning on the site for people planning on trying this out:

    Before you try this, have a boot floppy ready. If something doesn't go as planned, you could RENDER YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE. You have been warned.

  30. More Info and Warning by Metrollica · · Score: 3, Troll · on Animate Your LILO

    There is more info on the animated boot screen here with a nice large screenshot.

    There is also a warning on the site for people planning on trying this out:

    Before you try this, have a boot floppy ready. If something doesn't go as planned, you could RENDER YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE. You have been warned.

  31. Um, ok by Wind_Walker · · Score: 5, Informative · on The Best Linux Games of 2001?
    For Linux gaming, there's only one place to go: Linux Game Tome. They have good features, good reviews, and an extensive list of the games available for Linux.

    As for the games that were ported over from Windows, Why not just go and check a place like Gamerankings.com and see a good compilation of reviews? All you have to do is check on the games that have been ported to Linux and figure it out from there!

    For my money, though, Xbill is excellent :-)

  32. Re:"Maybe not too many games so far." by Time+Doctor · · Score: 1 · on Multiplayer Test For Return To Castle Wolfenstein

    Loki has 19 good titles. Which isn't bad. Lets see, tuxgames has 17 more actual titles. So we have 36 or so commercial, packaged titles, most of which are released. There will be a RtCW client port, so that's 37, and there are more ports available like Doom 1-2, and Abuse (for which you can even get the data files for free at the Abuse-SDL site.

    With several thousand free games available, a couple hundred of which are worth playing, and commercial games on the way which haven't been announced yet I don't think we'll be lacking good titles to play with for a long time.

  33. Re:Old DOS Stuff as well? by unapersson · · Score: 1 · on Windows-On-Linux Emulator Shootout

    There is a Sierra game interpreter in development for Linux, you should be able to find it somewhere on http://www.happypenguin.org/.

    I've never tried it, having no Sierra games, but it may be worth a look.

  34. Is it running X? (Was Re:Themes) by Bill+Kendrick · · Score: 2 · on Agenda Linux PDA Finally Out

    Is it running X?

    Yes, it's running X. About a week and a half ago I began writing a simple game for the Agenda from scratch (you may have seen it mentioned on LinuxGames.com and the Linux Game Tome.

    I'm practically done. It was incredibly easy. Developing it on the PC end wasn't hard (I obviously had some experience coding X apps), and making what I wrote run on the Agenda was a matter of using a cross-compiler.

    Porting Atari800 has proven quite easy, as well. I had it cross compiled and up and running (albeit slowly) on the Agenda in less than a half an hour.

    Of course, if you want to stick to the "standard look and feel" of applications already written for the Agenda, the tool to use is FLTK (Fast/Light Toolkit).

    It's a C++ lib, though. :^/

  35. No cool open source games? by OlympicSponsor · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Indreams, Dejagain, Codrivel

    Are you kidding? Don't use Freshmeat, use The Linux Game Tome. New games are posted all the time. Sure not all of them ever get past 0.0.1 and a lot of those that do are lame. Nonetheless, if you can't find at least SOME cool games here you just aren't trying.
    --
    Non-meta-modded "Overrated" mods are killing Slashdot

  36. Re:Yes -- A s**tload! by SmokeSerpent · · Score: 2 · on A "Vow of Chastity" For Game Designers

    Quotes from the games listed on the news page of happypeguin.org

    • Classic shoot'em up
    • roguelike game
    • clone of a C64 game
    • a clone of popular dos game
    • A Rubick's clock
    • A nibbles clone, just better
    • breakout-style game

    I have to admit though, I was dissapointed when I went to the page not to find any "just like game x, only with Tux as the hero" games to make fun of, not that they don't exist in droves. Ugh, Worldforge... I was able to satisfy myself as to the status of WF as a massive circle-jerk when a recent freshmeat announcement heralded "creatures now gain and lose weight accurately as food is eaten and digested" as the stand-out improvement.

    Here is my list of rules for the "Linux Games Dogma 2001":

    1. The first pragraph describing your game should not require the words "linux" or "open source" to hold the readers attention.
    2. The use of OpenGL is forbidden. Not that 3d sucks or leads to worse gameplay neccesarily, but I'm not interested in playing the proof-of-concept for your "3D engine" that you started the day you picked up "C for Dummies". You may also not use POVRay-rendered objects in your 2D action game. It looks really ugly.
    3. You will allow the user to use a joystick to play your game. I didn't upgrade to 2.2.18 and its USB support for nothing, and I'd much rather use my Gravis gamepad than emacs/vi cursor control keys to play your game thank you very much.
    4. Tux, the BSD demon and Bill Gates will not appear in your game. You can use any other character you like, just please no more goddamn penguins... On a related note, if you can't draw, find someone who can, or don't use "artwork" in your game.
    5. You may not create another breakout, samegame or tetris variant. Feel free to redo Nethack, but for chrissakes put some graphics in it.
    6. No sound clips from Sci-Fi shows/movies, The Simpsons or other nerdtainment fare are allowed. I understand you don't have a foley studio, but I'd rather hear beep-bop-boop or silence than some gawdawful 8-bit 11KHz Bart Simpson sample.
    7. If something explodes or bleeds or catches fire, the animated effects of violence should match the rest of your game's artwork, not look like you drew it with MS Paint or used the output of an "explosion generator" directly.
    8. I don't care what anybody's motivation is (except the enemy can't be Bill Gates or a facsimile thereof), but the game should be playable without a network connection, either single-player or PvP on a single machine. Don't make me be the "enemy" for the other player just because you're to lazy to write any AI code.
    9. You can make every object in the game black, as far as I care, I don't know where the hell this guy got his "no black" rule

    Oooh, that came out mean. I'm just in a pissy mood today, but I'll stand by all these points. There are playable games for Linux, but there's a s**tload of bilge as well.

  37. What about a game? by dmorin · · Score: 2 · on Central Registry For Open Source Project Ideas?
    HappyPenguin often lists new announcements for games that are little more than an idea. You could jump in on one of those. Or find a game that's already up and running that you like to play, and start hacking.

    You do NOT need to spend months reviewing the code before you can contribute. If you know anything about debugging, you could at the very least post some bug fixes. If your logic were true, then the only people that could contribute to Emacs would be original coworkers of Stallman.

    Are you sure it's not more a case that you want the credit of having your name attached to the project as originator? You wouldn't be the first one to fall victim to that desire.

    Please, for the sake of the community, at least try helping out on some existing projects first. You'll get more quick wins that way, you contribution more broadly to the software base, and you can stop at any time. If you create a project from scratch and decide that you don't like it after all, we're all stuck with another dead project on freshmeat.

  38. Re:Faves by carleton · · Score: 1 · on Warez and Abandonware

    It's apparently not feature complete with paradroid, but at one point, someone was developing a game based on the parts he liked of paradroid. Check out NightHawk at the Linux Game Tome.

  39. Re:Faves by carleton · · Score: 1 · on Warez and Abandonware

    It's apparently not feature complete with paradroid, but at one point, someone was developing a game based on the parts he liked of paradroid. Check out NightHawk at the Linux Game Tome.

  40. Manic Miner? by Chris+Siegler · · Score: 2 · on Linux Game Tome Returns!

    Anybody know where the game manic miner can be found? The link given is bad and I haven't had any luck.

    I've checked out the page for the DOS version of this game, but there aren't any pointers to a Linux version. That page says that the game is FREEWARE but that he won't release the source. Something I've never understood, but that's a different thread...

  41. Re:Intriguing by teraflop+user · · Score: 2 · on James Fallows on His Brief Microsoft Tenure

    On the whole I agree with you, but the timing of your first point is deliciously ironic.

    If you surf on over to the Linux Game Tome, you will find that only today a patch was released for e2fsck (the thing that checks your disk for you if you don't shutdown the machine properly), which allows you to play Tetris while the file system is checked. Of course, because it is open source, your second point kicks in: The feature is optional.

    I enjoyed the article. It sounds as though the programmers aren't too different to their open source counterparts (but richer). Presumably all the dodgy tactics come out of the marketting department. I guess one of the strengths of open-source is that we have no marketting department!

  42. There's a second one... by SeanNi · · Score: 1 · on Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux

    ...at happypenguin.org.
    --
    - Sean

  43. This should help. Clone: Warcraft II on Linux. by Dast · · Score: 2 · on Carmack on the retail Quake3 for linux

    I wish someone would port Warcraft II to Linux.

    Now, I've not tried it, but... Someone wrote a clone of Warcraft II for Linux. You need to own the original game for the graphics/sounds/maps/etc, but the engine is free.

    More info at the following url:
    http://happypenguin.org/show?CLONE

    They plan to support more games in the future, such as Starcraft.

    Hope that helps.

  44. Re:Is a BROWSER really the issue though? by Falrick · · Score: 1 · on The Battle That Could Lose Us The War

    A solid, stable, pretty, glitzy GUI is needed first.
    As many have mentioned before, see KDE or WindowMaker or Enlightenment w/ Gnome

    The OS needs to be usable to a new user - on the same level as Windows.
    Again, see above comment, and Corel Linux
    Linux needs to be easy to install, easy to uninstall, able to sense hardware without the user needing to open the PC to read numbers off of chips.
    Yet again, see Corel Linux
    Linux needs to support the latest and greatest hardware, like USB (USB2), firewire, parallel port scanners, WinModems...
    Again, see.... er.. wait. Damn, we don't have these. Linux needs to have GAMES!
    See Linux Game Tome and Linux Games and Loki Games
    End see

  45. Lokisoft makes most of the uber-cool games? by Jules+Bean · · Score: 1 · on Creative Labs to open SB Live Drivers

    [OFF-TOPIC]

    This is excellent news.

    However, I'm not entirely happy with the assertion that Lokisoft makes 'most of the uber-cool games' for Linux! This article was about how cool it is that Creative are open-sourcing their SBLive drivers. And it is very cool. So remember, that Loki don't make open source games.

    Now, I do of course understand why they don't. And I do think Loki is a very exciting company, and they're doing exciting things for Linux, and I'm sure it won't be all that long before we see some more open source offerings from Loki.

    But, I'd just like to remind people that there are some excellent open source games for Linux. My personal fave has to be FreeCiv - http://www.freeciv.org/ - and pingus will be excellent when it goes 1.0 - http://pingus.seul.org/

    For many other superb linux games, many of them open source, pop over to http://happypenguin.org/

    Jules

  46. Yep, there are mirrors Re:Mirrors? by Ethelred+Unraed · · Score: 2 · on Myth II Linux Demo

    Sure, there are mirrors--they are listed on Loki's site, which keeps getting /.'ed like crazy. But here are the FTP sites listed:

    ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/Loki/

    ftp://happypenguin.org/pub/loki/myth2/

    ftp://download.linuxlords.com/pub/de mos/myth2/

    Loki is going to be adding more as time goes by. If you have a good connection free, e-mail them and let 'em know...and if you have a spare Origin2, send it to 'em, too--their server needs a break... :-/

    Kinda sucks, too. Spent all that effort redoing the Loki site, and nobody gets to see it. *sigh*

    Ethelred

  47. Re:Blam! by bobz · · Score: 1 · on Myth II Linux Demo
    > I assume this means it does not do much on glibc-2.1 systems (?)

    There are glibc2.0 and 2.1 versions in the tar file, so everybody (except libc5 folks, I spose) ought to be happy.
    --
    The Linux Game Tome

  48. Umm, happypenguin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on LinuxGames Gets an OverHaul

    Am I the only one who reads the Game Tome? I think they have more about all games, not just Civ3 and Quake.

  49. A better link by bobz · · Score: 1 · on Quickie Fu
    > and it's no longer on the Linux Game Tome.

    It's still there...you've gotta go back a day or so, or try this link instead.
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    The Linux Game Tome

  50. A better link by bobz · · Score: 1 · on Quickie Fu
    > and it's no longer on the Linux Game Tome.

    It's still there...you've gotta go back a day or so, or try this link instead.
    --
    The Linux Game Tome