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What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games?
An anonymous reader asks: "I'm flying from the US to Europe in a few weeks and am taking my iBook along for the ride. With a seven hour flight looming, I'm wanting to take some games along to play. But I don't want to download a bunch of freeware that may or may not be junk; I just want the classics. What are the classic free games? I've already downloaded Nethack and am looking into Freeciv. What else is there? I need something that's multiplatform (or at least has a Mac port), something that's stable and has stood the test of time, and something that is more complex and engrossing than a Tetris clone. Thanks!"
Get a book (dead tree) and suck it up. Try 36 hours from Chicago to Cape Town, 8 hour layover in Frankfort, 2 hours on the tarmac in Johannesberg, all with a crappy 2nd rate novel and nothing to fall back on, and then you can gripe about a long flight.
tux racer is far from a classic, you Micro$lop hating zealot.
The statement of your question gives no information about why you are so interested in 'free' games. I suppose you may have taken a vow of poverty and thus cannot come up with the $25 to $50 it takes to by a commercially produced game. But then I think to myself, 'how could he be so poor as to not be able to by himself a game but be flying to Europe with a Mac laptop.' This does not compute. The I think, 'maybe he has devoted hour upon hour of his time producing free software for the world, maybe databases or weather tracking software, I don't know but because of his years of selfless programming, he now just want's to take a little bit back but does not want to resort to software piracy to even the score.' Anyway I don't want to presume you are just cheap ( is there such a thing as a cheap Mac owner? )
Well whatever your motivation and dispite the lack of character development in your post; this will in fact probably produce a decent reponse from the slashdot community. Excuss while I go follow the links to the games!
a) warez on windows (no doubt this is what you're doing anyway)
b) program your own in Linux. cos' all Linux games so far suck big time.
Hey fuckwit, they're under no obligation to provide ROMs to you. Don't be so fucking self-righteous - I have yet to see *you* make your personal stash of ROMs publically available.
Hmm, pull that black cock out of your ass and realise that free means .. "I can get it"