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There's Holmes, if you're brave enough. A little bit daunting but probably hard to beat on really large document collections.

Does anybody else remember Koules? It's sort of a breakout game, but your market get moved around by the ball and you can get bumped off the screen. It's hard to describe, but I want it back. The Home Page for Koules indicates that it's for X and for OS/2. I remember having difficulty building it for 'modern Linux' with sound support about ten years ago.

It's really good and I've never seen another game like it. It was a binary package, I think, on Slackware in the 90's, I believe that was where I first encountered it.

whoops. I didn't mean xboing. I meant koules. Which is an awesome game, and deserves a top level post, not just a buried reply so I am going to do that now.

* $60,000/year for a search engine

Or you can download and customize Holmes, written by some of the brightest minds out there and available under GPL at the same time, and say "no" to those extortionists.

Some Free games are very nice, specially the simple ones (not surprisingly, as they can't compete with the multi-million-dollars production effort of commercial games). The already mentioned Battle of Wesnoth and Freeciv are among my favorites strategy games. For action, Kobo Deluxe and Koules are pretty nice. Recently I found also XMoto, which looks silly, but is very fun to play.

"common" wet process negative do over 100 megapixels http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/images/zoom.jpg when scanned on flatbed scanner (this one is about 8cm big, scanned 2400DPI) allowing one to read headlines in the shop on the other side of square. The photo was taken by Ignac Sechtl http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/ in 1876. There are 50x60cm collodion negatives out there, how much megapixel one can squeeze out of those?

Once I will not be affraid of explosives, I will try to reproduce this technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Collodion_Process myself ;)

"common" wet process negative do over 100 megapixels http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/images/zoom.jpg when scanned on flatbed scanner (this one is about 8cm big, scanned 2400DPI) allowing one to read headlines in the shop on the other side of square. The photo was taken by Ignac Sechtl http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/ in 1876. There are 50x60cm collodion negatives out there, how much megapixel one can squeeze out of those?

Once I will not be affraid of explosives, I will try to reproduce this technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Collodion_Process myself ;)

The one unique and compelling game that I've ever played on Linux was 'Koules' which was a two-D 'push piece around in frame' game with great sound effects and addictive gameplay.

Does anybody else remember playing Koules? I have tried bringing the old source tarball for it 'forward' into a modern Linux distro, and it just won't build anymore. It might even be time to take a spare machine and roll out an old Slackware, something like Slack 3.4 (with a 1.2.13 kernel) just to play that game. I remember it playing great back when all I had was a Pentium 75 box with a SoundBlaster 16.

Does anybody else remember Koules? Has anybody built it successfully to run on a current Linux?

Koules is a friggin awesome game. It entertained me for an entire week during the summer of 1998.

Think first-person billiards.

Koules is an original game I played this year. It's from 1995, but still fun and unique.

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Sounds like you're talking about Koules. You can run it in X also.

Of course they're not dead. That's bullshit. It's not that 3D games are better then 2D ones, they're just different. Many 2D games have great gameplay experience that can't be reproduced in 3D at all.

One great game I played (to the end of it's 100 levels) was Koules.

My favorite game on Linux has always been Koules.
I am not sure how a novelization would work though. But Koules is one neat game.