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Games Knoppix

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Yay! Ati is supported by holymoo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting a distrobution that actually has support for a ati video card, where 3d is already setup. Heck, its worth downloading just for that.

  2. One of the headlines you won't see in 2005 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux best suited platform for PC games!

  3. GPL? by mowler2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isnt it a GPL violation to ship the Linux kernel together with nvidia binary modules?

    1. Re:GPL? by pmjordan · · 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

  4. Re:Nah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Speaking of cheap mother fucking dads,
    Well, is there anyone else you suggest that a dad f**k's?
  5. Tracker for GamesKnoppix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    Enjoy!

  6. How about which games are on the CD? by Vladan · · 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
  7. Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by rtaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I meet the idiot responsible for this lameness filter I'm going to kick his ass.

    You don't get it, the lameness filter only allows lame posts to get through. Your post was perfectly reasonable until the lameness filter forced you to make the post lame. See how it works now?

    --
    Rod Taylor