Games Knoppix

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Posted by michael on Saturday December 25, 2004 @01:30AM from the go-together-like-chocolate-and-peanut-butter dept.

Quiberon writes "A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme, gamepad support for XWindows. uni-kl is University of Kaiserlautern, the first on the list for distributing SuSE fixes - they are good. Every kid should have one for Christmas morning."

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bubble by Cen'Rec'Namor · 2004-12-25 01:40 · Score: 1, Informative

Including frozen bubble the most adictive game ever made.
Re:Nah by Gopal.V · 2004-12-25 01:49 · Score: 3, Informative

> Nah, give me an Xbox.
XBOX -- Ex Box

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Not totally new by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-25 02:16 · Score: 1, Informative

Morphix (http://www.morphix.org/) has a game iso as well.
(Morphix is a modular live-cd distro based on Knoppix in the first place which comes in several flavours like light-gui (xfce4), heavy-gui(gnome/kde) and a game iso).
Tracker for GamesKnoppix by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-25 02:18 · Score: 5, Informative

A bittorrent tracker is available at: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

Enjoy!
Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by Simon+(S2) · 2004-12-25 02:35 · Score: 3, Informative

google cache

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Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-25 02:59 · Score: 4, Informative

Castle-Combat
Globulation 2
Hatman
Kobodeluxe
Miniracer
Pingus
Rafkill
Lots of small games
Boson
Bsdgames
Crimson Fields
Dosbox (Emulator)
Empire
Konquest
Mangoquest
Pysol
Tuxcart
Zsnes (Emulator)
Ace-of-penguin
Battle for Wesnoth
Bzflag, Bzflag-Server
Clanbomber
Crossfire (GTK client)
Enigma
Foobillard
Freeciv, Freeciv-server
Freesci
Gltron
Gnuchess
Jump'n'Bump (joystick support patch, special graphic patches)
Ksokoban
Lbreakout2
Lgeneral
Miniracer
Nethack
Netpanzer
Neverball
Tuxracer
Xgalaga
XMame, XMess (Emulators)
Xpilot
If I meet the idiot responsible for this lameness filter I'm going to kick his ass.
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Re:GPL? by un1xl0ser · 2004-12-25 02:59 · Score: 3, Informative

It said it had nVidia support, not the drivers from nVidia. I would suspect they are using Open Source drivers (nv module).

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Re:GPL? by m50d · 2004-12-25 03:25 · Score: 2, Informative

It's OK under the "mere aggregation" clause

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I'd love it by canofbutter · 2004-12-25 03:26 · Score: 2, Informative

If I was still a kid I'd love my parents to give me a Knoppix CD: it would show that not only did they know what it was (at least sort of), but they'd have known how to get it and burn it. That much computer literacy is the best gift one can give...
Morphix anyone? by m50d · 2004-12-25 03:28 · Score: 3, Informative

Morphix has had a "gamer" version for some time now. Get it from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/Morphix Combined-Gamer-0.4-1.iso?download

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Re:GPL? by pmjordan · 2004-12-25 03:33 · Score: 5, Informative

It says 3D support, so it must be the closed source ones. However, as others have pointed out, the nvidia modules aren't being distributed as part of the kernel, but simply taint it at runtime when they are loaded.

~phil
Language, 3d by Quiberon · 2004-12-25 03:54 · Score: 2, Informative

It's easy enough to make it English (knoppix lang=en or knoppix26 lang=en if you like 2.6 kernels). 3d support is proper, i.e. 'nvidia' not 'nv'. Believed legal; you can separate out the 'nvidia' if you want an untainted version. Besides, which grinch would disagree with a free distribution ?
Nothing to do with SuSE, just pointing out that uni-kl have a track record of being trustworthy.
Re:GPL? by r00zky · 2004-12-25 04:03 · Score: 2, Informative

In the Knoppix distribution there is a script that downloads and automagically installs the nvidia binary driver.

Dunno about this one.

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How about which games are on the CD? by Vladan · 2004-12-25 04:13 · Score: 5, Informative
Let me be the +%d Informative karma whore and post the actual contents of the Knoppix Games CD before we all rush off and go download 700MB over our feeble North American DSL/cable connections.

From here, the newest games on the CD are:

Castle-Combat
Globulation 2
Hatman
Kobodeluxe
Miniracer
Pingus
Rafkill

You need at least 256 MB RAM to use your accelerated video card. That should give you a taste of what's on the CD. Personally, I don't think it's worth it. It contains a lot of nostalgic arcade games written by fans of those games for other fans. Also, the GamesKnoppix distro organizer has himself said there are no violent games on this CD.

On an unrelated matter, Merry Christmas

Now here's the rest of the games on the CD:
- Boson
- Bsdgames
- Crimson Fields
- Dosbox (Emulator)
- Empire
- Konquest
- Mangoquest
- Pysol
- Tuxcart
- Zsnes (Emulator)
- Ace-of-penguin
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Bzflag, Bzflag-Server
- Clanbomber
- Crossfire (GTK client)
- Enigma
- Foobillard
- Freeciv, Freeciv-server
- Freesci
- Gltron
- Gnuchess
- Jump'n'Bump (joystick support patch, special graphic patches)
- Ksokoban
- Lbreakout2
- Lgeneral
- Miniracer
- Nethack
- Netpanzer
- Neverball
- Tuxracer
- Xgalaga
- XMame, XMess (Emulators)
- Xpilot
1. Re:How about which games are on the CD? by lordofthechia · 2004-12-25 05:48 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I downloaded the Knoppix Games CD a few weeks ago and I must say I was thoroughly impressed. My Nvidia card was immediately detected and tux racer ran like a champ. The only thing I missed the first few times was to set the language to english (kinda confusing when I had to press 'z' for yes at the load NVidia module prompt and change the language settings in alot of the games).
  
  I was particularly impressed with Globulation 2. It's an RTS akin to Warcraft/Starcraft, different in that you don't give commands to individual units. Instead you assign building projects and set flags and units will assign themselves to these tasks. With support for 16 players I can't wait till this game catches on. It's apparently not complete, so if it's this good now I can't wait till they are officially finished with it.
  
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Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by mortonda · 2004-12-25 05:08 · Score: 4, Informative
Here's a try at another version:
- Castle-Combat
- Globulation 2
- Hatman
- Kobodeluxe
- Miniracer
- Pingus
- Rafkill
- Lots of small games
- Boson
- Bsdgames
- Crimson Fields
- Dosbox (Emulator)
- Empire
- Konquest
- Mangoquest
- Pysol
- Tuxcart
- Zsnes (Emulator)
- Ace-of-penguin
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Bzflag, zflag-Server
- Clanbomber
- Crossfire (GTK client)
- Enigma
- Foobillard
- Freeciv, Freeciv-server
- Freesci
- Gltron
- Gnuchess
- Jump'n'Bump (joystick support patch, special
- graphic atches)
- Ksokoban
- Lbreakout2
- Lgeneral
- Miniracer
- Nethack
- Netpanzer
- Neverball
- Tuxracer
- Xgalaga
- XMame, XMess (Emulators)
- Xpilot
Amazing, it stil won't allow it when it the list is all one html list. How in the world does it do that? It must strip and interpret all html and then apply the filter. Lame lamenes filter.
However, the above sentance is enough to fix it, and the list looks better, too. :)
Re:What About DVD+-R Booting? by Quiberon · 2004-12-25 06:44 · Score: 3, Informative

Yes. Try http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10230
Re:GPL? by IntergalacticWalrus · 2004-12-26 05:12 · Score: 2, Informative

Mod parent up. He's the only one who provided an accurate answer to the question.

I'd also add that nVidia's license does allow redistribution through physical media.