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The Best Linux Games of 2001?
Apostata asks: "As more
and more people migrate (or consider migrating) to Linux, I'd like to
know what Slashdot readers would vote for as their top picks for
Linux-friendly games (either native or commercially ported) for
2001."
XBill for life! Who needs quake 3?
Quake3 and UT, all the way.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
Emacs, meta-x tetris. Doesn't get any better than this...
// zyqqh
This game is criminally responsible for the diversions of many many man hours that could have been spent learning useful aspects of Linux and directing them at gaming.
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
Tetris and that marbles game are pretty good. They seem to work reliably.
Take this personaility test.
tribes 2! Too bad it's not as good as tribes 1.
Tucows has some good links... My personal favs are xpilot and Vega Strike... We need some good rpgs!
The only way to get decent "real" games at the moment is through emulators. Therefore I recommend Xmame + lots and lots of arcade games! Pang, Twin Cobra, Spy vs Spy.. ;)
'Course, the KDE games are coming along nicely...
Can you hear me, Major Tom? I'm not the man they think I am at home...
TuxRacer is good on two fronts: they are Linux-friendly and they have an Open Source version (although it is older than the commercial one).
If I may be slightly off-topic here, I'd like to see more people involved in creating Linux games. Unlike developing for a console, there are plenty of freely available docs and tools to make it happen. Take a look for example at plib, a portable scene graph/geometry/network enabler/GUI/sound library intended for games. It's Open Source, GPLed, has a great, easy-to-understand C++ interface, and is overall a good thing. I've been using it for nearly six months, and I can't believe the ease with which I've been able to create a couple of little games. I'd love to see more Linux-based Open Source games based around plib.
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
X-eyes.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Gnomehack.
This is absolutley my favorite linux friendly game. It single handedly frustrated me to the point of never wanting to boot into Windoze again.
:)
StrategyTalk.com, PC Game Forums
What about Xeyes. It's so much fun, that the first time i ran linux i played with them for hours!
Called "Keeping Up With Patches."
First you must begin by being wary enough to defend your installation: are there new patches or kernels available for LINUX?
Then if you see a new update, you must go on to the difficult stage-- downloading, compiling, and installing the new kernel.
In the higher levels things get intense as there are "must have" updates that patch serious security holes, and a time limit on the "Production System" level.
If you lose at the lower levels (the training levels) you can just start over. If you lose on the higher levels, you die / get fired.
Real fun game, lemme tell ya. The Open Source Mullet guy here drinks 12 cups of coffee a morning because it's so much fun.
Kohan from Loki is easily the best game I have bought for the past 3 years. Loki's newsgroup is filled with some of the best people from around the world who set up games weekly (or more often) to play online. Kohan is very stable and tons of fun to play, and has easily soaked up more of my time than I really want to admit. Loki even ports the patches so the Linux players can play against the WinSlaves (although there have been a couple of issues with the "sync error" that are mostly cleared up these days).
If you like RTSes, but hate all of the MM, or are just looking for something that isn't yet another Warcraft clone, then I highly recommend checking out Kohan.
I read the internet for the articles.
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 :-)
No doubt about it....
well...my opinion may be a little biased since I only play quake3....
Anyway, I would like to see modern FPS engines like "Operation Flashpoint" to linux...
My "Wintendo" partition exists solely for OFP...wich is good, since having to reboot for playing it makes me stay in my working OS (linux obviously)
from the tis-the-season form-making-lists dept.
/. Do we really have to fill out a making-lists form?
Aw, Christ. Bureaucracy takes over
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Didnt know their were any linux friendly games. Castle Wolfenstein is decent on linux, dell 8000I w/ 512 RAM and GeForce II Go, but until ATI or NVidia come out with their newest chip, which will almost double the power, as well as provide almost full support for direct X 8, linux games are still way behind the windows version. I like to play games at full screen, and if they use openGL, its just way too slow at fullscreen
Here we go again, the worst part of New Years... All the top 10 lists, best of 2001, etc. Well, at least it's not a new millenium this time.
Linux is not a platform that supports games.
gcc
...And haven't seen one about NetHack.
pound
I have purchased several Loki games over this year, but Descent 3 is the best! I am on my third run through (with higher difficulty). It is fast, the music is great, and the plot is fun. Nothing says FU like a black shark missile :)
Come on... With XMAME we get thousands of arcade games at our finger tips. What's better than that?
I know it's not natively ported, but it still works great with wine. And thats the www.winehq.com version of wine, not the commercial versions. i followed the tutorial at http://lhl.linuxgames.com/ and it took some tweeking, but got it working in an afternoon and I have wasted many hours sense then.
for non-commercial 'head to head' sh*t on your neighbor fun, I love BZFlag. As far as commercial games go, my first experience was Myth II: Soulblighter. I loved playing it on Winderz and the same applied on the Linux side. As to the new games that are out, haven't tried any of them yet, though Alpha Centauri looks interesting - being poor sucks.
-- oodabadabaY
- xbill
/sbin/fortune
- Zork II
- Oo-Topos
- Sammy Lightfoot
- SpaceWar
- Asteroids
- Jungle Hunt
thank youThey really don't exist. There are a variety of games out there that do work, but you prolly aren't gonna get what you want. As for commercial games the linux community gets lucky when quality games to get ported, but we're SOL when stuff doesn't. People seem to get in an uproar when a new version of tux racer comes out, but I doubt the majority of the linux community sits at home playing tux racer. If gaming is your forte you're gonna find yourself dual booting or reformatting pretty quick, cause you're gonna be disappointed.
I would have to go with the obvious...Quake3...and I really like Rune. You can get some of the older games from Loki for under ten bucks at ebgames.com. I think Loki's demo app is nice. Download one app and you can just choose which demo you want to try.
The only Unix-based games I play much are Angband and pysol. I play Civ III on Windows, because that's where the current patches will be, and I play a few things on MacOS.
The games that have been ported (with a few exceptions) are almost all shooters - which I simply don't enjoy playing.
I like RPG's and turn-based strategy, for the most part.
The commercial offerings just haven't appealed to me much yet.
My blog: http://www.seebs.net/log/ --- My iPhone/iPad app: http://www.seebs.net/seebsfrac/
real weapons
realistic maps
thriving user community
Grab Loki's patch to install Unreal Tournament, then hop over to Strike Force Center to try the mod.
Seems like that's the game I play the most...
managers...why god invented purgatory
Please quote the studies showing that "more and more people" are migrating to Linux. After all, if you're going to make a claim on a news site, you should back up your claim.
And no, secondhand anecdotes like "My 15 year old cousin who is six foot four, 130 pounds with a acne that looks like someone set his face on fire and put it out with a golf show installed Red Hat" doesn't count. Industry studies, please.
That's right, Tetrinet. I have various versions of RedAlert, Carmageddon, mech warrior, Tribes, etc.. But I'm always up for a game of tetrinet.
In no particular order... Chromium, Tux Racer, GLJewel, KShisen, PySol.
Can You Say Linux? I Knew That You Could.
I've played Moria/Angband since iMoria on the University of Washington VAX in 1987. Moria and its variants are truly the greatest computer games ever invented.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I know we can not yet play counter strike on Linux, but all the best Counter Strike Servers "do" run on Linux.
I know so many *nix freaks that support and love this game, it really has to be my number one choice.
Last I checked, fortune was in the "games" section in the package manager I was using. It has certainly entertained me more than the windows built-in games (except maybe 3d pinball...)
Postal never got much attention but it delivered on everything it dreamed to be. Which basically involved running around in 3/4 view trying to kill people with a bundle of weapons. Definately more disturbing than a first-person shooter.
Loki gets my vote for not only bringing Postal to Linux but doing a sweet job of it.
-Barkeep, a draft of your most hazardous brew, for the world is slowly stepping into focus, and I don't like what I see.
Nethack.
'Nuff said.
You can't see this if you have sigs turned off.
i got sucked into this damn game to the point where i was dreaming of gems and seeing outlines of gems on my carpets, walls, etc.. :\
I am too mean to pay for games, but many of the open-source games available for various flavours of UNIX are superb. (albeit, without fancy graphics in most cases.)
freeciv has to be the best civ-like game.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. it's a great game.
... how my parallel port is using the same IRQ as my sound card (for some reason). So the game is, I have to unload my parallel port modules, then reload the sound modules, and then (finially) reload my par port modules. Its really fun, and after going through a few lives and continues, I win everytime.
Has finally arrived, and will begin shipping to destinations just after xmas.
Get to play with digital DNA and see evolution at work all on your Linux box.
check ds.creatures.net and also of course www.tuxgames.com
There is no best one as each Linux game brings soemthing new to Linux, perhaps if enough of these games sell we might see more of each catagory or the same.
Matt
Very addicting...even the demo. Not much in the action department like some games, but still very fun. The only new thing I would like in it is network play.
Tribes2 is really bad for the Linux game market. I can't stop playing it and am simply not interrested in buying any other game since 6 months.
An excellent port of an excellent game. www.lokigames.com.
May I suggest: Copter Commander
Its an Armor Alley / Rescue Raiders clone, and then some.
xyame NES/GB/GBC emulator, running your favorite Pokemon ROM.
t o-videogames-if-you-want-it-posted-on-slashdot. For months now, video games get the cheap front page /. real estate that only anti-Microsoft stories used to receive. I'm not complaining -- but I do find myself rolling my eyes a bit when stories like this one make the cut...
And by the way:
> tis-the-season-form-making-lists dept.
Tis-always-the-season-to-submit-anything-related-
1. Unreal Tournament
2. Quake 3 Arena
3. Rune
4. Heavy Metal FAKK2
5. Soldier of Fortune
6. Heavy Gear
7. Postal Plus
Out of those, the ones I enjoyed the most, in order of how much I enjoyed them...
1. Unreal Tournament (good lan party fun!)
2. Soldier of Fortune
3. Rune / Q3A (can't decide)
4. Heavy Metal (good, but a bit buggy and quirky)
I'm really looking forward to RTCW, supposed to be out in January says the guy doing the port.
After that there doesn't appear to be too much on the horizon, anyone know of any good games coming out for Linux?
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Ok, I really love UT, but when I downloaded the demo for Uplink, my eyes were opened. So simple, yet so elegant. And the price...that's hard to beat.
I highly recommend Uplink for anyone that is tired of the same old $#!+.
-Ben
Because I can play al my favorite games on it. It's got it all, baby!
Bye!
Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems pretty badass, and the Linux executables were available within a few days of the game release.
Tribes 2 for Linux would be great if all the people playing the Windows version weren't watching their game crash all the time. Nothing like watching someone crash while running the flag.
trying to get first post on /. is kinda fun. ;) *GRIN*
Q3 is a decent game and works very easily in Linux. Its a breeze to setup.
However, the only game that I really care about is Half-Life (actually, it's Counter-Strike mod). CS is the only reason I still have a hd with Windoze on it...
what better game than the installion of linux itself!
My favort Linus game is DOOM!
It is the best one of all times and I run it on my beowulf clusters. However, because Luxin is so hard to use, my sound card doesnt work and I must ply my Doom with no sownd. It is sad to do this but Linus doesnt work for me so what can I do?
It's a very interesting Artificial Life game. Something like The Sims, but more oriented towards biology. It's written in its own interpreted language that you can see and modify (look in the Bootstrap folder). It's free (but not GPL'd) and you can get it here.
Creatures and Creatures 2 can work under Wine, but they're pretty unstable. It's also possible to play Creatures 3 with this one because they share the engine.
I've just gotten into this game. I ordered it back when Loki was in bankruptsy and it got tucked under my newly purchased copy of Diablo II. After sorta getting bored of diablo (DAMMIT!, why are all the good weapons hard to find??) I've rediscovered it. And I remember now why I bought it! Wonderful graphics.. stable as hell.. my only beef... listening to "praise the kohan" or whatever every time I move someone.. chreeerist!
- Jimbob
The game I have had the most fun with has to be Shogo:MAD.
No, it did not have the most up to date engine.
No, it was not the most original idea in the world.
However, it was mad fun to play. The playability of the game was superb and the linux from whatever transfer was excellent.
Kudos to Hyperion Software.
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...for Linux would be a Winblows2000 partition for Civ3. :)
There two great clones of classic
games for that console:
Mad Bomber, a Kaboom! clone
and
Circus Linux, a Circus Atari clone.
Both are very good.
Heffel
Expert Java EE Consulting
While you're voting, feel free also to submit your vote for the best lunar landing of 2001 and/or most significant world event of 2001.
Isn't it obvious? Nethack is still the best game on Linux...
like this
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Urban Terror is a mod for Quake3. Less twitchin, more bitchin!
My favorite Linux game is seeing how long you can read the mkisofs manpage without developing stigmata wounds, bleeding from the eyes, or going insane.
Bowie J. Poag
Ok, so maybe it's not exactly a state-of-the-art game, but quadra has always been a favorite timesuck of mine. Many an hour have been sacrificed in pursuit of a global high score. =)
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Oh, baby, freecell.
Gotta go play freecell.
My Karma was at 49, then they switched to words. All that work for nothing!
Well I seem to play KShisen, Same-Gnome and KJezz a lot. And occasional game of XBill, of course. These are all quite addictive games i think.. And I have an old 4 meg nvidia riva 128 card installed on this linux box of mine, these new 3d-thingies probably aren't quite happy with it. Quake works though, but, I have got a little bored with it few years back already..:)
ound the message used repetitively over and over still nothing grows silen
/.
If you are only interested in fast-twitch games, why did you use such a trollish subject line? You might have made a point, but instead you just look like a fool to people who know that strategy games like the wonderful FREECIV are plenty stable - more so than many non-linux games.
--Charlie
RTCW Takes the cake in my book, even though the final SP Linux version hasnt yet shipped , the MP ROCKS.
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
It's incredibly nice... (The Sims for Linux)
I think getting Mandrake 8.0 working with my video card was the best adventure/puzzle game of 2001. It almost became a first person shooter.
For Linux, my favorite game is called DOOM! It is a game in which you run around in a maze shooting both creatures and evil humans! When you shoot the humans, they say "Hey!", "Hey!"! The evil pink demons roar like LIONS when they see you and it is scary! In the end there is a big robot man who shoots rockets at you, and a big spider with a machine gun! These big creatures are called "Bosses" and when you kill them you win the game! I believe this concept is a unique feature of DOOM; no other game has it as far as I know! This is why DOOM is such a great game!
It is fun and never boring and no other game in the world is like it at all!
nuff said.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Top 10 Games for Linux:
Quake 3 Arena
Descent 3
Unreal Tournament
grande 0.2
HackNet
MindRover
SimCity 3000
Railroad Tycoon II
Soldier of Fortune
Rune
This list covers the best action, role, adventure, and skill games around.
I realized the other night as I was playing Nethack 3.3.1 on Windows that I have been playing the same game (on and off) for almost ten years, never winning, never getting bored.
sig is
This game has ruined my life. It's a great RTS game. Somewhat of a cross between StarCraft in the 13th century, and Heros of Might and Magic III.
By far the most popular computer game of '01 was a cross-platform distributed game: trolling on Slashdot.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Open Source or not, I have to admit to wasting more time on this game than any single one since Warcraft.
And what I find nice about FreeCiv is that I can play it in one Virtual Window, go to another VW to do stuff, then return to where I left off in FreeCiv. It nicely works with the multi-tasking environment of Linux, unlike the Loki ports I have tried.
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p
I like Armegetron. Wish there was a central auth. server to play lan games. Game is a ton of fun with human players.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
Slashdot BrownNoser. It's a game where you write in with a kiss ass question just to get attention. And you are the winner!
I second that notion! Nethack has kept my attention longer than any other game, hands down.
among others
there's more than one way to do me.
There's this great game, let me run down how it works.
/boot
I run make menuconfig.
I run makedep, make modules, make modules_install, make bzImage.
I copy the image into
I boot.
I swear
Then repeat.
I do so untill my usb cd burner has support, along with everything else. It's great enjoyment for all, and I learn something new as a result. Here's where you can download the game kernel.org
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Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
my favorite game is try to get linux to recognize my SBaudigy board. hours of pointless excitement
Actually, score 5 for pathetic! Geez.
You can't go wrong with Quadra. The guys at quadra.sourceforge.net have been working for a long time on this Tetris hybrid. Imagine all of the fun you can have with recursive line clearing (a la The Next Tetris). Multi-player is exciting as well. Up to 8 players can play at one time, with each person either cooperating or competing to win by filling up their opponents' screens with garbage. And if you are a little more partial to Windoze, there is a Win32 binary that's available along with the Linux binaries and source code.
Linux is THE game ...
Life sucks.
Why Netrek of course! The ultimate multiplayer game, the One True Multiplayer universe-dominating game where even modem players can be Netrek GODS.
(Yes, that's my 18-hour-game-of-netrek cripple mousehand-claw stabbing into the air in defiance of these new-fangled 3D-type games arriving at my local electronic boutique..)
My favorite game of all time just happens to also by favorite linux game as well! Nethack is a game I can play and replay (unlike Playstation 2 or your latest Windows game), and it still feels fresh after all these years.
Useful links to learn more:
http://www.nethack.org [The official Nethack site)
http://www.nethack.de (A good all around reference)
http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/ (the *best* place for spoilers)
http://nethack.devnull.net (home of the recently mentioned-on-slashdot tourney where some incredible players put up some incredible scores).
Happy hacking!
Of course, you've got to have the CDs (or even the floppy for that matter), collection CD is probabably your best bet on ebay and such.
Then once you got a grab on the CD, go to exult.sf.net and enjoy U7 Part I and II on Linux with Enhancement Like You Never Saw (tm) and great play for this timeless game.
Artaxerxes
Plenty of hours of fun with Banner. Only if I had an old-school dot matrix printer. Not sure why it's in the GAMES folder though.....
Both of them.
;) I dunno. Quake3 is pretty good I guess, but for some reason all the games I run under linux run about 20% slower. NV drivers perhaps? Whatever. So long as ZSNES works I'm happy with it.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA I crack myself up
The Linux multiplayer test of wolftensdein has keept me entertained for many, many hours.
And it's only one map!
When his defense asked, "Which computer has Jon Johansen trespassed upon?" the answer was: "His own."
I don't know if it was actually published in 2001, but that's when I bought it. Descent 3 for Linux is an excellent port of the Windows version, and it even adds a few features that the Windows version doesn't have (like no-mouse-grab and rendering in a window). You just can't beat 6DoF in a first person shooter, as long as you don't get motion sickness too easily. :) Multiplayer is incredible too, with lots of multiplayer game modes.
Then again, I always said that Linux itself was the ultimate video game- it's the only one that's kept me playing continuously for 6 years.
--WH--
Altough almost 20 years old, Digger! is still one of the best games, IMHO. You can compile it with SDL (or SVGAlib, IIRC) or on FreeBSD, just install it from the ports collection :-)
reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
Quake3 Arena, esp. with UrbanTerror mod
This is the only game I indulge in and it totally rocks. Loki does kick-ass work. The install is very smooth.
This was the final straw for the win side of my dual-boot box.
Nethack?!? Surely you jest...
That brings back bad memories of being stuck in the computer lab killing time...
Naturally TuxRacer, but also ArmargeTon GLTron, Glaxium, Chronium, and a lot of other open source native opengl good game with action and everything else.
My vote goes to Return to Castle Wolfenstein without a doubt.
;-) .plan file.
Even tho the single-player binaries have not yet been released, the multiplayer part will keep you busy for a while. It's being ported to single player as we speak, and the binaries can be found on iD Software's FTP server...
Support gaming under Linux; buy Return to Castle Wolfenstein from TuxGames!!
I have also enjoyed numerous games ported by LokiGames. Go to their site, and browse thru their catalog.
Titles I have enjoyed in 2001: Rune, Unreal Tourney, FAKK2, Soldier of Fortune, Tribes 2 and Alpha Centauri...
But RTCW [Return to Castle Wolfenstein] is still no. 1
Get progress reports on Castle Wolfenstein port on LinuxGames and Christian Antkow's
It's been a very good year for gaming in our favourite OS, let's hope it gets even better in 2002!!
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
With millions of inane comments to read... sort of like slashdot.
I love Net Hack (Falcon eye), Cannon Smash, Free Civ, but for the PAID games I love Quake3 and Alpha Cent! Those two rock hours off the clock. I wish loki would import Black & White.
This SIG pulled due to lack of funding. (This damn war is costing too much!)
Have a nice day, Citizen. The Computer is your friend! :)
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
There are a bunch of good Linux games, but I think I have to go with MindRover being the absolute coolest, most original, most FUN game I've yet seen on Linux... (The all-time winner of that award in my book would be "The Incredible Machine", but unfortunately there's no Linux version of it or any of its sequels, yet...) If you like coding, you'll probably love MindRover... If you like BattleBots, you'll probably love MindRover... You basically build and program your own robotic vehicles to compete in a variety of missions... It's extremely cool... Check it out: The main site, and Loki's product page...
mad propz ta da Wine team
BZFlag is an incredibly fun Opensource MultiPlatform OpenGL tank shooter type thing, brilliant fun, and it even works on a 56K modem. well, almost.
Software Freedom Day!.
I haven't got too many games yet, but heretic 2 was surprising a good 3rd person 3D game (though it was quite tomb raider). I have fallen in love with Terminus. It has had quite a bit of replay-ability for me. (Might be why I haven't bought much else lately.) Heavy was OK, but I want to hold out for a fast machine to really judge it. (I want to hold out for a faster machine to waste lot of time on Terminus too.) I've have Descent 3 and it looks cool, but I am going to have to hold out for the faster machine for that one.
...)
I plan to buy Uplink soon. A cool game that ISN'T 3D or RTS for Linux! I must have it! I also plan on getting DEUS EX and Aftermath when they come out.
I was going to subscribe to Transgaming, but in the last second I asked them about the SafeDisk stuff and if they would be willing to include things that could never be released to the Wine project no matter how much money they made. They said they would use Open Source alternative when they exist, but that they would consider Closed Source in cases when they couldn't release the code for something. It's a shame. I'll fund future Open Source work, but I will not fund future Closed Source work. (Yes, I buy Closed Source software, but Closed Source Subscriptions just seem worse to me. I won't do it.)
For now I'm going to have to wait on a new power supply while playing Terminus. (Did mention that I REALLY like Terminus? It's a really great game. They need to make a part 2 with more player customization, user made campaigns on the server, in atmosphere flight, player run corporations,
Dan
Obviously what you meant to say was:
Isn't that the one, where in the last stage you eventually get sick of it and toss it out for Windows?
Gotta love Plug-n-Play.
I dont have too much time toplay so I like tehe puzzles (sokoban, gnibbles, etc)
My Favorite is GTetriNet
I'll ask them if I can pay them for the candy instead of having them call the cops. Don't think its gonna happen. I still agree with you though, using roms is not bad, but your analogy is.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
Has anyone out there done a Linux port of Steve Shipway's Wanderer?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
.... but wait, I guess it is only tribes 2 because that is the only game that came out in 2001. Oh well.
Can you see Iron City here?
Powermanga, if only they could make the game full screen and full speed at the same time. It's really not that hard.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
These games have got to be the best games ever. All three work in linux too!
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill what he stands for. Not unless you first break his spirit."-Smoking man,X-Files
xconq is a very nice turn-based strategy game. Very flexible: campaigns exist for many historical battles (WWII, Napolean, etc) as well as fantasy (LoTR). Very well done, in my opinion.
And the gnome builtins (gnibbles, etc) can be fun for a few minutes....
I've recently fallen in love with "Return to Castle Wolfenstein". It is a great multiplayer games, and it uses the Quake3 engine.
;)
The only downside, is that they (id software) has not made a single player binary for it yet. But, who needs single player? When you can frag your best friend with a panzerfaust!
--Frank
"Neither life nor happiness can be acheived by the pursuit of irration whims." --Ayn Rand
Just an outstanding game. Unfortunately the design tool hasn't been ported yet, but you can still play the basic game plus user-designed modules that can be downloaded from the numerous fan sites.
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Just flashing ahead to six months from now. . .
it's a Total Conversion for Q3A, with realism in mind. Better than Counter Strike :)
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http://www.urbanterror.net
and let's not forget nethack
If it needs anything more than curses to run, I ain't interested.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
because you need TEN games to fill it.
Maelstorm all the way.
KTuberling, which is essentially Mr. Potatohead for KDE. I can't begin to tell you the number of disgusting things you can do with the large nose, cigar and earring pieces.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
FreeCiv! Ever since I got RedHat 7.1 I've been an addict. Game is incredibly fun alone, even more fun online, and customizable to the extent that it's like having several games.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Here is my list:
AZspot
In Emacs
This
Every linux gamer has to own these two games.
True warriors use the Klingon Google
i can't seem to get past level 30 though
XSnow was much cooler than XEyes. (XSnow has snow falling in the background of the screen, and it piles up on the top ledge of windows and the bottom of the screen.) XPenguin isn't bad either.
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
The one called "install".
It's soaked up *hours* of my life so far. In it you have to "install" this "operating system" onto your "computer". The thing is, I can't seem to get to the next level.
On the redhat mission, after I go through the "packages" (over 1000 of them, hours of fun) how do you configure "x"? Is there some hack that I can download for this? I can't wait to see the final round!
Introversion has definitely shown that a game can be addictive without being flashy. Uplink certainly wins my vote, and I hope the moderators agree. Uplink rules! Gameplay is involving, (somewhat) complex, and requires at least basic thought processes (unlike FPS games, where you just use your brain stem and a few extremely low level functions from the rest of the brain). Uplink actually worked better in Linux than it did in Windows, even though it seems to have been coded and designed in Windows (I'm using a Voodoo 3, so that could be why...). My brother refuses to install Linux on his computer, so he can't play Uplink (he also has a Voodoo 3). He doesn't like it anyway, because it uses OpenGL and isn't 3D. He just doesn't understand what gameplay means.
Uplink's the way to go, man!
A solution to the problem with music today
What more do you need? I've wasted WAY too many hours with that thing!
I've even beat the Expert mode in 2:44. Anyone done better?
/usr/games/fortune. Today I got these gems:
and I know, don't flame me, it's a Unix game from way back."What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Rune, Kohan, and SimCity 3000 are a tie. They are all excellent examples of their respective genres, and the Loki ports are fast, stable, and are in no way inferior to the originals.
:)
Alpha Centauri I enjoyed, but in many ways it is just "more of the same" from Sid Meier. More of the same stuff that we love, of course
MindRover looks really cool. I've had it sitting on my shelf for a while now, but my preliminary attempts at it found that it was hard to just jump right into the game. Sometime when I have a rainy day to kill reading the manual I plan to dive in...
Return to castle wolfenstein, that's my pick... It's a really great game...
One shall speak only if what one has to say is more beautiful than silence
The current Linux version of Tribes 2 is more stable than the Windows version (I've never received the equivalent of an "Unhandled Exception" error). With a GeForce 2 MX card and current Linux drivers, frame rate is still about 20% less than under Windows, but I'll gladly sacrifice a bit of graphics for NO CRASHES.
Were you taking LSD at the time? I've heard it can cause that, too. :-)
"Da ist ein Technölüst in mein Unterpanten!"
IMHO the problem with most Linux games is that they are ports or clones, that's not saying they aren't fun, it's just saying that they are the same old thing. I want the next "Black and White" to be a Linux game, then maybe Linux would get press for games?
I argee. Most of us got off the shareware/commericial software jazz to get rid of the $500 copies of Office, and $250 copies of Photoshop, $125 copies of Windows, $200 copies of Dreamweaver. Not like we actually paid that much for them (more like pirated copies), but it's still overly inflated. $50 for a game is still a bit much.
Zodiac Survey
I rediscover this game every year, and
am never disapointed to find that it has
been improved/expanded/enhanced.
Nothing can touch it!
I have had the most fun playing UT for Linux. It took a bit to compile and install but was well worth it. Rune is kewl as well (Same Engine).
Cheers!
"I think you know what I'm talkin' about, Mr. President; We're gonna kill us a mummy!" - Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley
i still play xpilot a lot. =X
Get the extra graphics so you can play some of the more unusual games. The theme music works well, so be sure to turn it on.
As the name suggests, it has a high geek factor since it was entirely written in Python.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
This doesnt really count as "this year", but there is work going on towards a Free Doom-based game: there are of course many ports of the original doom source which run on Linux and will be able to run with this when it is completed.
:)
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
I thought you meant this Falcon's Eye.
This was the One True.
Long live Mehul Patel!
There are getting to be a lot of games for Linux. To me, though, there are very few games that I would truly call Linux games. That is, sure, you can get emulators and lots of versions of Tetris and Sokoban and lots of retro remakes of Asteroids and so on; and you can get some big titles that you can also get for other platforms, like Quake 3. But there's no much that really makes you think "Wow, now there is a gaming experience that I can only get under Linux." This is similar to the later years of many all-but-dead systems, like the Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple IIgs.
Tux Racer is one of the few games that shines for Linux, even though there is also a Windows version. Too bad it's just one of several dozen "Franchise Racer" games, though. It's a good game, but it relies on the player never having seen Crash Team Racing or Diddy Kong Racing or other such games which make Tux Racer seem lackluster.
Here's hoping for some original Linux games in 2002. The coding abilities are there, so the time is ripe for some good stuff.
Text Mode Quake is where it is at!
skout perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(
Is a very good total conversion for unreal tournament. Check it out here.
My picks thus far:
1) Unreal Tournament
2) Tactical Ops
3) Return to Castle Wolfenstein
They really should release a playable demo for Tribes 2 linux...
Without a doubt: Return to castle wolfenstein -
The large, detailed batlefields are stunningly beautiful.
RtCW gives me that old rush I remember from when doom first came out.
Runner up: quake 3 arena
better OpenGL support?
Either you didnt read the DRI docs or use a modern distro which supports OpenGL pretty well on more than a few cards or was just bad luck . i know had some headaches when I first started to setup dri (XF86 cvs)
OpenGL supported cards are:
Matrox G400,G450,G550
nVidia TNT and above
3dfx Voodoo3 and above (OpenGL w. Glide)
Radeon, Rage128
Except for the nVidia all the other cards are supported by XFree86 natively. nVidia has its own binary drivers (best supported by games).
A default install of Mandrake sets up DRI for you where you can play Quake3 w/o problem if you have a DRI supported card. I played Q3, Q2, Q1, Tribes2 (after the Matrox Multitexturing patch), Unreal Tournament on my G400 MAXX. NO problems
you may think its "troll'ish", but you are the troll who has posted 201 /. comments and probably have your own journal on /. as well, trying to make first post.
/. looser that live with mom an dad who pay for your dsl line.
/. trolls!
face it, your nothing but a
their, that was a troll comment, mod me down please all you
Privacy? Not in this lifetime.
Zork ROCKS! It's easy enough to get started, but it's really challenging and fun. I think it's one of the most fun multiplayer games out for ANY platform. The graphics require a little imagination, though...
Make sure you staple your TPS report to the cover.
Chuchunco City 2000 the fighting game.
You can't get any worse from that.
Luis
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
keep your Q3 and your Tux Racer, just give me LBreakout2.
How can everyone forget the Half-Life mod, Counter-Strike? Much better playability than UT, and better realism than Quake. How can you go wrong with a game that has redefined the first-person-shooter into a co-operative strategy game?
Non-stop Quake on a text only terminal.
Using aa-lib, if only I could see whats going on.
cant really beat that
if you told someone that you'd get that type of games on linux 4 years ago you'd would have been called crazy and here we are
isnt this cool?
hehehe
Why play Quake, when you can kill enemies with turtle shells in Super Mario Land on zsnes/snes9x?
as root:
/dev/hda
strings
I've lost hours of my life trying to get Tux to hit 210kph and fly really really high up in the air. I think I've wasted as much time on Tuxracer aimlessly as I have wasted on Alpha Centauri purposefully. :)
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
Don't even bother to ask how you get a Form Request Form without first filling out a Form Request Form requesting a Form Request Form...
And, don't forget, all Form Request Forms must be signed by Orange-clearance-or-up Citizens, and deposition of ink on a form below the ink's clearance first requires an Ink Request Form for the higher clearance, signed by both you and the signer...
Mmm... treason points...
Want Linux games? HERE.
There are a lot of great games out there for Linux, and I've collected more of them than I really have time to play. Lately I've been seeing a lot more work done on Open Source engines for commercial games like prboom (doom engine) and Exult (Ultima 7 engine) which use the original data files but enhance already classic games.
A lot of people are mentioning games like Q3A and UT which have been around for a while (before 2001) and although they're great games, I'll try and keep my list to games which have come out in the last 12 months or so. There have also been some great non-commercial mods like Urban Terror (particularly with the new beta), but I'm going to skip them as well and just try to list the games which have been commercially produced (fairly or not).
Conspiciously missing are The Sims (a modified version which is emulated under WineX) because I haven't gotten it yet, and Serious Sam which I was hoping would be finished by now, but still hasn't come out yet. Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Without further ado, here it is:
Top Ten Commercial Linux Games for 2001:
1. Kohan
2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
3. Tribes2
4. Rune
5. SiN (Nov/Dec 2000)
6. Alpha Centauri
7. Heavy Metal FAKK2
8. Mind Rover
9. Jagged Alliance 2
10. Postal Plus
I was out shopping for the future inlaws Christmas gift this weekend, in the casino games section at Best Buy. We were looking at several different slots games, and my eyes kind of got wide when I saw the banner on the corner of the box; Windows and Linux.
I took home two copies; one for them and one for me (I like to play video poker, lol). It's not blow your doors awesome like Wolfenstein, but at 19.95 they've put out a VERY realistic slot machine game. Rated pretty highly by Casino Player Magazine, too.
Send in the clones.....
-mis
- MindRover - Publisher: Loki - Robot Programming Puzzle Game
- Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns - Publisher: Loki - Fantasy Real-Time Strategy Game
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Publisher: Loki - Sci-Fi Colonization/Civilization Turn-Based Strategy Game
- Uplink - Publisher: Introversion - Sci-fi "Hacking" Sim
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Publisher: Activision - Modern remake of the classic 3-D shooter, now with suberb multiplayer
I'm pretty sure all of the above titles received A-category reviews across the board, so out of those four you should be able to find one you at least like.Another note: Linux Game Publishing is shipping a port of Creatures Internet Edition which should reach resellers after Xmas.
:wq
I can't see why everyone else doesn't also response 'Tribes 2'. This is THE most impressive thing I have seen running on my Linux box, apart from maybe VMWare, but that's no game...
Tribes 2 has incredibly graphics, the game runs BETTER under Linux than Windows on my 500Mhz Athlon / 64MB DDR Radeon / 384MB. And it is totally immersive. If I just had ping times of less than 500ms everything would be sweet!
My favorite game is /usr/bin/gcc.
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf, but I've only been playing it for a few years, so I'm still a beginner...)
(I would say
--
I Hit the Karma Cap, and All I Got Was This Lousy
Linux itself. Remember that article about it a few days ago? I don't want to get the link but something about how Linux is like a big "massively multiplayer game with lots of enthusiasts." Something like that anyway.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
-Don
From: Jeremy Huxtable (jh@Ist.CO.UK)
Subject: Big brother
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Date: 1988-07-25 07:43:13 PST
Try this out on your NeWS server.....
%!
% eye.ps
%
% Jeremy Huxtable
%
% "Big Brother" implementation in PostScript.
% Create an Eyeball class from the Default window class.
[...]
Take a look and feel free: http://www.PieMenu.com
I know it's a little off-topic but I didn't find the post to be very well motivated. For example, how does the dependent clause relate to the rest of the sentence?
As more and more people migrate (or consider migrating) to Linux,
Does this really have anything to do with Linux games in 2001? I think this probably should have been its own sentence. Perhaps something like:
Many people are avoiding the switch to Linux because of the perceived shortage of Linux games.
Does this shortage of Linux games really still exist? I'd like to know what Slashdot readers would vote for as their top picks for Linux-friendly games (either native or commercially ported) for 2001
Yes its a nitpick but I think the underlying assumption was missing. In general, it would help out the Newbies if you make these assumptions more clear.
Never underestimate the power of fiber.
The department of redundancy department would like to remind you that you must be reminded to fill out three copies of the forms in triplicate. Any forms filed without the proper redundancy will require that you requisition the form for refiling forms not filled out in triplicate form.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Build the best. Destroy the rest. In Robocode, you'll program a robotic battletank in Javatm for a fight to the finish. The game is designed to help you learn Java, and have fun doing it... from a simple 10 line robot to a very sophisticated, intelligent robot that destroys the competition! RoboCode
xkobo . . . need i say more? it features 50 breathtakingly complex levels of interwoven alien pipes of DEATH to be destroyed by only the bravest. and as with all classic games, like pacman, it repeats after level fifty, but faster and dang more difficult. currently on level 209 here. gonna play xkobo till my computer runs out of memory for the levels or i croak. "-cheat" is for grandmothers.
very sad state of affairs, when all you read are lame pre 80's style games and quake3, id like to see the whole mechwars series ported to linux, but i doubt that will happen now that MS owns it. DAMN DAMN DAMN life just aint fair.
grep -c default.ida /var/log/httpd-access.log
My High Score is 7283 -- and I only run apache to put a random file or two where my friends can get them.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
If you're looking for a nice game of chess, may I humbly suggest looking into my project, Knights? It's not as thrill-packed as Quake III, but c'mon. =)
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
I hope the singleplayer Wolfenstein comes out for linux soon. I'm not buying it until it does!
Other than that, the OS itself is a beautiful game! My favorite 'game' is windowmaker, rox-filer, and useful little perl and sh scripts to tie it all together!
Tribes 2.
Single player is a bit weak, but like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, it's not exactly built for single-player. To it's credit, they single players missions are a lot more meaningful and have a much better story behind them than the UT and Q3 single player missions. Audio to go along with text in mission briefings is nice if you're not in the mood to read three or four paragraphs describing the full mission.
Multiplayer - This is what it all boils down to. Tribes 2 beats all others hands down. The netcode is absolutely unbelievable, I should know since I play on 28.8K dial-up (Yes, my phone lines are THAT bad, and there is on cable modem or wireless service available in my area yet). With a little getting used to, Tribes 2 makes compensation for lag incredibly easy, even more so than the latest Half-Life / Counter-Strike versions. Servers with up to 36 people on them are not a big deal with my connection, I can hardly handle players with other games. I can still hold my own pretty well in a fight against an LPB both on the ground on in the air. HPBs are simply eaten alive in Q3 and UT.
Sound - The music fits the environments, and the sound is clear. For those with broadband connections, they can use an integrated Tribes 2 voice chat system. The Linux version uses GDM protocol. I haven't heard such great things about the system (They tend to sound like frogs), but most people that I know who do have broadband use it even though it supposedly doesn't sound that great. Voice communication is outstanding and well layed out. It takes a little getting used to, but when you get a few important keystrokes memorized they become incredibly convenient. Hitting V-F-F to tell my team that I have the flag through audio and with a little text message is far superior to binding a macro for text-only communications and hoping people actually put in the effort to read what I have to say. Everything you need for teamplay is there, even extras that allow you to make gestures and taunt your enemy.
Graphics are absolutely gorgeous. With a GeForce 3, all the goodies can be turned on and the resolution can be brought to 1600x1200 with very playable framerates. Huge outdoor environments make for some stunning views, and the detail is incredible considering the massiveness of the envirvonments.
Gameplay varies from person to person. For some, it can be too complicated, but for myself and most I know it's well done overall. The physics engine is outstanding. For the first time I can remember, velocities actually add properly. Launch a disc while strafing and your disc copies your sideways movement. Drop a grenade while falling and your grenade's velocity will match your own. In other games, all your weapons move at a constant rate in one direction. In Quake 3, it was pretty easy to out-accelerate your own rocket if you knew how to strafe jump well. The jet pack takes some getting used to, as well as adjusting in different classes of armor, but those are pretty easy and sensible. Vehicles can be helpful, but are not necessary or overdone. Each one can be used for a variety of purposes, and each are equally as important. Deployable equipment is a huge plus, especially when it comes to defending your flag. Everything is extremely well balanced, and the gameplay reflects more upon the player himself than what the game limits him to be.
And finally, patches. Loki did an absolutely mind-blowingly cool thing by making patches for Tribes 2 easy to install and quick. Everyone I know who uses the Windows version absolutely despises the Sierra installer and update utility since it downloads the patches in sequence and has multiple updates that are required for the installer itself. Loki has a single patch file that updates Tribes 2 from the retail version to the latest version, making it infinately easier than the Windows version to get up and running.
Anyway, so it really does kick ass, and I'd definately have to say that it's an all-time great. It's almost a cross between first person shooter and real-time stratagy, and it's my choice for best Linux-friendly game ever.
SMAC--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Xevil's a really fun, fast-paced side-scrolling jump & shoot style game. It's available at http://www.xevil.com. Red Hat had a lapse of judgement and stopped including it in their distributions, so I went ahead and switched to Debian. You can use "apt-get install xevil" to get xevil. I recommend it.
This is the most addictive FPS you will ever play!! http://www.urbanterror.net
Tribes 2.
;)
This game is so much damn fun, especially if you can hook up to a big server (e.g. the Barrysworld MegaGame which has space for dozens of people). The smaller servers are fun, but 60 or more people all battling is outstanding.
This game is my precious
Chris "Ng" Jones
cmsj@tenshu.net
www.tenshu.net
the lightning-bolt SS sigil has Nordic occult meaning.
Indeed it does:
This is what the lightningbolt-S means as a runestone:
Sowilo: (S: The sun.) Success, goals achieved, honor. The life-force, health. A time when power will be available to you for positive changes in your life, victory, health, and success. Contact between the higher self and the unconscious. Wholeness, power, elemental force, sword of flame, cleansing fire. Sowilo Merkstave (Sowilo cannot be reversed, but may lie in opposition): False goals, bad counsel, false success, gullibility, loss of goals. Destruction, retribution, justice, casting down of vanity. Wrath of god.
Basically, tho, it's just a symbol of Hitler's "Schutz Staffel", his "elite arian warrior gods reborn" made into a "logo" using [Norse] rune letters...The rune thing fits perfectly in with the high-ranking German elite's fascination of the occult and Norse mythology...
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein!
Check out Urban Terror! it's an awesome q3 mod that is so complete it's a totally new game wich pushes the Q3 engine to brilliance.
Liberty.
I hate it is not open source, though!
http://www.gibware.com/
yes I was looking for a place to squeeze this in...
has anyone ever seen a retail outlet anywhere in western washington state that carries linux games?
yes, I'm a nut, but I'd rather drive three hours then buy something over the internet.
Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
The game used to be based off of Allegro, and was easily compiled in any OS (whether it be windows, any number of UNIXes, and heck, even BeOS). Since then the project has taken a massive turn in another direction, in an attempt to switch from Allegro to SDL. However, the Allegro sources should still be widely available.
go check it out, if you have an hour or two to spare... be warned though... it can get very, very addictive.
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, I'd be richcursive!
the good old text based MUD's, they have kept me distracted for many many many years.
-- Viva FreeBSD --
wine /c/windows/sol.exe
icqqm [ICQ:11952102]
if you liked Action Quake 2,
www.reactionquake3.com is playable in linux if you have Quake 3
I created 320x240, 400x300, and 512x384 modes for M.A.M.E. They are also useful for postage stamp games like Powermanga. Just Ctrl-Alt-+ until it's close enough to full screen for you. It's also good for some XMMS plugins.
p l
If you don't want to go through the pain of designing your own video mode then this page helps quite a bit.
http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.
If you're using XFree86 4.x then it also helps to know that it will look something like this when you're done:
.
.
.
Modeline "320x240@76d" 15.71 320 324 348 388 240 241 244 253 doublescan
Modeline "400x300@75d" 24.17 400 408 448 504 300 302 306 316 doublescan
Modeline "512x384@75d" 39.45 512 524 596 648 384 387 392 404 doublescan
.
.
.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "Matrox Millennium G400"
Monitor "Display 1"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384@75d" "400x300@75d" "320x240@76d"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
There ya go, hacky fullscreen of postage stamp displays. Enjoy.
www.bzflag.org is my fav one (:
... unquestionably UT, baby! By the way, does anyone know if Unreal2/Unreal Championship will be released on Linux? When?
Of course you have to fill out the Making Lists Form. Of course, first you have to fill out the Form Request Form in order to request the Making Lists Form. Don't even bother to ask how you get a Form Request Form without first filling out a Form Request Form requesting a Form Request Form...
:)
Have a nice day, Citizen. The Computer is your friend!
However, please first make sure that you have the proper Clearance to requisition a Form Request Form. Failure to comply with this simple rule may result in your abrupt termination.
Would you like another cookie?
-):
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
I wish EU1 or 2 would be available though.
Out here in Montana our Hastings had a Linux section, also I think one of the big box computer stores had a small section of linux games, you might try one of the mall Software stores as well.
And, don't forget, all Form Request Forms must be signed by Orange-clearance-or-up Citizens, and deposition of ink on a form below the ink's clearance first requires an Ink Request Form for the higher clearance, signed by both you and the signer...
...
I'm sorry, but your ink is an improper color for your security clearance. Please reconsider your color choice of ink. Failure to do so may result in immeadiate dispatch of the Penguin Police to your location.
Have a nice day, citizen
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Definitely not Global Thermonuclear War. It's really a lose-lose game. In fact, I'd say the only way to win is not to play at all.
Not new, but the Mods will keep it alive for years to come. I've found it can work exceptionally well with wine and a good 3D card.
DRINK DUFF (responsibly) DRINK DUFF (responsibly) DRINK DUFF
Both work perfectly under winex
Karma whore of the year!
Counter-Strike under WINE all the way! Ohh and Q3A and Return to Castle Wolfenstein rock to...
I have downloaded the Demo for uplink and that is the sweetest game I have played in years. Makes me feel like a little script kiddy all over time.
//BAD JOKE// I just cant wait to fly my airPlane into build..... I mean airports.//BAD JOKE//
X Plane will be my lover when it gets ported to linux. The game looks sweet. Simulation of flying on mars is just too cool.
I know there is a program called 'Gimp' which sounds as though it might be able to do the job, but my question is this:
Is there a decent print layout package out there which can run in the Linux universe? And can those packages produce documents which will be readable by Windows and Mac-dependant industrial printing agencies?
As well, how available are Linux drivers for defunct legacy scanners, CDR burners, tablets, printers and that sort of thing?
Thanks!
-Fantastic Lad
EBGames currently has 3 Loki games (Quake3, Heretic II, Descent 3) on sale for $9.99, $6.99, $6.99.
it is definetly not XBill that game is only good for like 13.4563 minutes and that is it. NOT a microsecond more.
Whose idea was it to put Windows servers on the net in the first place, anyway?
Heck I use FreeBSD not Linux... so why not ask that question too?
XEvil.
How can you go wrong with a game that lets you kill BABY SEALS?!
P.S.: Real *nix guys stuck in Windows play Day of Defeat.
After Mandrake their game edition of the dist, it comes with the Sims, I have to say the sims is the best game for linux.
smiletris is the shit. it came loaded with my caldera. i haven't figured out the rules of it yet, but i've been playing it at least 2 hours a day for the last 4 months. it's just cool.
-"Hey, Baby. It's not a rash, it's textured love."
I'm a big cards player... and unfortunately KPatience is responsible for wasting *lots* of hours of time I should be spending doing other (useful) things. Might be basic, but by god it's addictive!
No, it doesn't have 3-D graphics or sound or blood or explosions. But that lets the players focus on tactics: probing for weaknesses, cutting off bases, making diversionary attacks, drawing enemy troops into a trap. It sucked up more of my time in graduate school than all other computer games combined.
The caveat is that it's only partially supported. A branch adding a computer player was started recently, but the client-server version (as opposed to the old X-networking version) has languished.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Crossfire. CF has to be the all time greatest Graphical RPG on linux, no bias ;).
URL: http://crossfire.real-time.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/
Why hasn't anyone mentioned this game yet. Bastards.
Does anyone know of an instruction site that tells (in depth) how to get Half-Life, CS, and the like working in linux? The configuration and compilation process of WINE (or is it best to use WineX? what's the difference? etc), proper X config, and the like, is all quite complex and involved, and more than even I feel is timeworthy for a game. I've seen one or two 'howtos' that are poorly written, but nothing that takes the topic from the ground up using the latest software versions (wine, X, etc) into consideration.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
sweet god uplink is awesome, in any form. tac ops a unreal mod is also worth time... lots and lots of time
kwyn
ADOM is a great game. Its a Rouge-like, similar to Nethack, except that it has an interactive storyline, tons of NPCs, towns, villages, and more. I actually like ADOM better than Nethack, as far as gameplay is concerned. However, ADOM is only free as in beer (runs on Linux too). On the other hand, Nethack is free in every way.
OK, so get ready for a flamefest but let me throe this out first. CounterStrike is the most popular game on the internet right now although, to my knowledge, there is not a Linux port of the game every good player knows the best CS are Linus and sure as hell NOT win32 so that should account for something. I nominate Counter-Strike HLDS Linix as the best Linux game of 2001. Of course I'm also a little drunk right now.
Electronic Boutique has some of the older loki games (quake3, heavy gear, sim city, railroad tycoon, soldier of fortune), I think Fry's carries some newer games, I just use www.tuxgames.com, supports linux and their quick and easy
SimCity 3000 gets my vote.
I thought it RTCW was supposed to be available as a Linux native version ?
:-) ...
As far as I recall you were able to download the multiplayer demo for RTCW already - and I damn well have
So why use winex when you can get the real stuff ? I will zip out of the door and see if my Linux Shop has it already.
- Holle
I love the old classics, and this lets me beat on my friends.
- Elwood
So why use winex when you can get the real stuff ?
:( I can only play with WineX... But hey, on my K6-2/500+TNT2, it's beautiful and almost playable...
Well I have got a good reason... The linux version segfaults on every startup.
Is Cognitoys Mindrover, as featured in this months Computer Chronicles or the mag Poptronics this is a cyber world of programmable robotics.
Great fun and a delight on Red Hat Linux.
John
I highly recommend the cow patched version of nethack.
Top nix games in no specific order:
..yes, the Linux version will ship on the same CD.
1) Q3 and mods (beautiful! Fun! And faster than winblows!
2) UT and mods (see #1)
3) WineX'd HL/CS (best $5 I've spent in a LONG time)
4) Tribes2 (love the game, just don't play it much)
5) BZflag
6) Xshipwars
7) FreeCiv (if it only had some sounds... but 30 players a in simultaneous world conquering frenzy?!? w00t!)
8) Golf for Linux (errr... how did that one get there?)
And the best game for linux, not yet released??? NEVERWINTER NIGHTS! http://www.bioware.com/games/neverwinter_nights/
From a recent news post:
And the best news of all? From Derek French (Assistant Producer)
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Linux Port:
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My list of games that work well at lanparties and run under at least Linux and Windows; some other platforms as well.
For simple, multiplayer fun, BZFlag is very hard to beat. Sure, the graphics aren't THAT amazing (although they are fairly decent) but it's so easy to pick up and so addictive if you're playing against people you know. There's just something amusing about bouncing tanks, and Giant "LASER"s, and so on :-) I made a couple of dozen bootable CDs with a minimal Linux + BZFlag and used them in a lab full of machines as part of a summer festival money-spinner thing and people who'd never tried it before were simply hooked... Definitely worth a go if you haven't seen it already.
Wolfenstein has two seperate binaries: one for multiplayer which contains a scripting engine and other goodies, another less complex one for multiplayer.
The Linux binary currently ONLY does multiplayer. Hopefully a native single player one will exist soon, but first the porting guy has to port the script engine.
id:6:initdefault: is always good for some fun...
Apparently SDL is also quite good. I've been organising a rewrite of the old classic C64 (and other platforms) game Wizball and my friend has started on it. :)
I told him he should check out SDL and he loves it, it's quite easy to use, and I'm looking forward to learning C to help him