Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console

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Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @03:46AM from the as-if-you-have-an-opteron dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new 64-bit Linux CD can instantly turn an AMD Opteron-equipped PC into the ultimate gaming console, according to Super Computer Inc. (SCI). The company has created a distribution of the popular America's Army multi-player strategy game on a bootable Linux CD, that it says was developed in partnership with AMD, nVidia, and the US Army."

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whow by EpokhusMinimalist · 2003-10-01 03:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Good to know the hords of gamers with opteron's can play the world's best games....in 64
Well gee by KDan · 2003-10-01 03:49 · Score: 4, Funny

If that's the killer niche app for the opteron, I feel sorry for AMD!...

Daniel

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Carpe Diem
Turn your $2000 PC into a $150 Toy! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Where do I sign up?

Maybe they can release instructions on how to dissemble my car and build a go cart out of the parts.
1. Re:Turn your $2000 PC into a $150 Toy! by jvalenzu · 2003-10-01 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Turning $2000 worth of equipment into $150 of value is a Department of Defense specialty.
How far we've come... by 3Suns · 2003-10-01 03:54 · Score: 5, Funny

How far we've come since the days of Apple IIe and Commodore64 and Kaypro. With all this new technology, it's interesting to see the return of the "Application Diskette".

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-3Suns

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Heh,I didn't like the 32 Bit Version All THAT Much by H8X55 · 2003-10-01 04:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Now it sucks even faster.
Re:is anyone else bothered by Trigun · 2003-10-01 04:18 · Score: 2, Funny

how long before we have another columbine-type scenario where the kids have learned team combat tactics from playing these kinds of games and are far more successful?

Just have armed teachers camping at the respawn points. That'll learn'em!
But Gentoo! GENTOO! Arghahahaha Gentoo!!!!! by mao+che+minh · 2003-10-01 04:29 · Score: 2, Funny

How come no matter what the topic at hand is, some clown has to jump up and down and go on-and-on about Gentoo?
I am so sick of hearing about Gentoo everytime I read Slashdot. If Gentoo were a living person I would kick him in the ghoulies.
1. Re:But Gentoo! GENTOO! Arghahahaha Gentoo!!!!! by rizzo · 2003-10-01 05:07 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  We are gentoo.
  
  You will be assimilated.
  
  Resistance is futile.
  
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  "More organs means more human." - Zim
Re:A 64-bit gaming console? by Wakko+Warner · 2003-10-01 04:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah. I'll be able to play TONS of games on a BARE CPU.

- A.P.

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"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Re:A 64-bit gaming console? by zero-one · 2003-10-01 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

...including catch the CPU, hide the CPU, throw the CPU and Opteron Jenga