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I recently bought a second copy of Tribes II from Tux Games (which seems to load somewhat slowly right now). I think there are a few other places, too, but I'm not able to find them right now.

There are several good linux gaming sites, such as linuxgames and icculus.org. icclus.org has a nice faq and lots of projects, and linuxgames is a cornucopia of helpful info for gaming on linux.

-Paul Komarek

I recently bought a second copy of Tribes II from Tux Games (which seems to load somewhat slowly right now). I think there are a few other places, too, but I'm not able to find them right now.

There are several good linux gaming sites, such as linuxgames and icculus.org. icclus.org has a nice faq and lots of projects, and linuxgames is a cornucopia of helpful info for gaming on linux.

-Paul Komarek

Given that I worked in a room with windows on two sides, and lots of room, and my employer since then has crammed me in a tiny little cubicle with no window, I can tell the difference. Scott's Reality Distortion Field doesn't extend so far as to affect digital cameras (and no, those are two of my co-workers, not me).

Linux port of SS2? Didn't know about that one. I know Ryan Gordon (formerly of Loki) is doing the port of the first Serious Sam game, with the full support of Croteam. Details are hard to find, but take a look at http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=i cculus&section=ssam

The open-source setup tool is the _perfect_ example of a GUI installer (which can also run fine in ncurses). It can install whatever libraries a user needs right along with the program.

I invite you to get acquainted with an ex-Loki employee named 'Icculus' located at icculus.org. Among his famous Loki work is a port of Serious Sam, a port of the Build engine of 3dRealms/Duke Nukem/Shadow Warrior/... Not to mention hosting of former Loki technologies all for free.

We love our platform. Commercial support or not, we will make happen what we want to happen... Even if that means playing games.

No, they were imported from backups made of Loki's CVS repository yesterday. If you take a look at the cvs repository (http://cvs.icculus.org) you'll note that its more than just a single version in their. The past modifications to the projects are there also.

Serious Sam is being ported by http://icculus.org

Besides the humour this comment brings one valid point for most folks that don't know Linux:
"Why can't I play my games?"
For a good deal of them, you can get free binaries, an open-source port, or at the least, pay for a closed source copy. Even if it means paying twice, at least this time it gets counted as a Linux purchase.
Also, I have 204 and reasons (47 of which are commercial) why you don't need Windows gaming:
http://www.icculus.org/~zakk/gamelist.php

To answer the inevitable question of "Well, which games have free ports"
most of these things are answered in a faq:
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/
Anything that isn't answered there is probably answered somewhere else, like linuxgames.com.

Besides the humour this comment brings one valid point for most folks that don't know Linux:
"Why can't I play my games?"
For a good deal of them, you can get free binaries, an open-source port, or at the least, pay for a closed source copy. Even if it means paying twice, at least this time it gets counted as a Linux purchase.
Also, I have 204 and reasons (47 of which are commercial) why you don't need Windows gaming:
http://www.icculus.org/~zakk/gamelist.php

To answer the inevitable question of "Well, which games have free ports"
most of these things are answered in a faq:
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/
Anything that isn't answered there is probably answered somewhere else, like linuxgames.com.

-Don

Relnev's Quake2 already had SDL support, so if you ran it as:

export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib
./quake2

You would get the same results. And, when you get quickly bored of it, the same binary can do the regular graphics, too.

(SDL just uses AAlib as one of the drivers, so effectively, you get the same end result with either project, but this is more unified, and unified is good.)

Relnev's project page and cvs-over-the-web.

--ryan.

Relnev's Quake2 already had SDL support, so if you ran it as:

export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib
./quake2

You would get the same results. And, when you get quickly bored of it, the same binary can do the regular graphics, too.

(SDL just uses AAlib as one of the drivers, so effectively, you get the same end result with either project, but this is more unified, and unified is good.)

Relnev's project page and cvs-over-the-web.

--ryan.

wolf3d-20011028.tar.gz

I don't know if this would qualify as interesting enough, or work with true illiterates (that is, a person that can't read thing one) but there's always TurtleGraphics.

My improved version of LOGO is here, and it's free (GPL). Again, the literacy thing can be an obstacle, but there's no reason an early elementary schooler can't use it, so you don't have to be at the Shakespearian level to try it.

At any rate, it might be a nice change of pace if you have even one person that can benefit from it.

--ryan.(icculus@SPAMISEVILclutteredmind.org)