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Free Software FPS Games Compared
An anonymous reader writes "Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction." -
Installing Wine with DX9
ts1920 writes "WineCVS is an extensive script for automated installation of different versions of wine and Cedega. Today it has been updated to support wine installation with latest DX9 features. The latest patch level of the script now includes a profile for installing Wine with Oliver Stiebers Direct3D 9 patchset. A short installation instruction and some more detailed information can be found at linux-gamers.net." -
Installing Wine with DX9
ts1920 writes "WineCVS is an extensive script for automated installation of different versions of wine and Cedega. Today it has been updated to support wine installation with latest DX9 features. The latest patch level of the script now includes a profile for installing Wine with Oliver Stiebers Direct3D 9 patchset. A short installation instruction and some more detailed information can be found at linux-gamers.net." -
Half-Life 2 Under Linux Review
as writes "TransGaming Technologies, a developer of software portability products that allow game developers and publishers to develop games for one system and deploy them across multiple platforms, has released version 4.2 of their Wine fork Cedega on 7 December 2004. The new version of Cedega 4.2 offers support for Valve's bleeding edge action shooter Half-Life 2. linuX-gamers.net has tested Half-Life 2 with Cedega 4.2 and has written a short review of the game under Linux."