Alien Arena uses Quake 2 format maps, Tremulous uses Quake 3 format maps. It's possible to convert between them, but you could not just copy over the.bsp file.
I remember Half-Life. It was nice, but it was a little boring. I was always falling asleep at the keyboard, waiting for the guy I was shooting at to finally die. I remember having the same problem with Halo.
I don't play either game anymore.
"Galaxy" is an IRC client/server browser. I do agree that it sucks, but you don't have to use it.
As for the "CLI" you got, that's the ingame console, which basically all games (Quake 1-4, Doom 3, ET:QW, UT 1-3, etc) have. You should have been able to get out by hitting "escape." If you didn't think to use "esc" you obviously haven't been using computers long enough to know that button's universally understood and respected function.
If you want to skip galaxy, try the "quickplay" icon which should also have been installed.
None of the developers have Macs, none are willing to buy one just to port the game.
There was someone who was working on a Mac port, had it almost finished, then he disappeared without releasing so much as a header file. He was calling himself "Heisenburguncertain." If you ever run into him online you should ask him about it.
Install all the computers from the Ubuntu Server disk, so no games get installed by default. This will give you a basic commandline-only working environment. Then, install only a desktop environment and all the programs you need, nothing else.
If you must use the desktop installer disk, you can simply uninstall all the games.
After that, simply remove the users from the sudoers group, keep the root password secret and cryptographically secure (ideally a 60-character randomized string from/dev/random,) and no one will be able to install any games or anything.
Electrified sheathing around your insulated cables, surrounded by a layer of duct tape. Make sure the floor is grounded.
One or two nibbles is all it takes.
The "Ping O' Death" was a glitch that affected a lot of operating systems-- every single UNIX-like, Mac System 7, Windows 95, Netware, DOS, and others. Even embedded devices like routers, scanners, and printers were susceptible. Basically, if you sent an IP address a "ping" packet that was larger than the legal size, whoever had that IP address would experience anything from a graceful reboot to an instant kernel panic or BSOD.
There was a patch available for Linux only 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds after an alert was posted to the mailing list. It took months for Microsloth to get its act together and fix the bug. During that time, pranksters had endless fun crashing computers with the click of a button.
http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html
You don't really even need a different PC specifically for the project. Get two USB hubs, that's only two slots and it'll give you eight different drives.
Get a 5.5 inch USB floppy drive. Get an IDE a LS240 Superdisk and put it in a USB enclosure (that'll take care of 3.5 inch floppies and Superdisks all in one go.) Get a USB zip drive. Get a tape backup drive (which are still being made, you can get 8 terabyte ones which take three days each to format.) And for the truly retro touch, get a paper-tape reader (I think you'll have to settle for getting that one in a serial port.)
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Alien Arena uses Quake 2 format maps, Tremulous uses Quake 3 format maps. It's possible to convert between them, but you could not just copy over the .bsp file.
I remember Half-Life. It was nice, but it was a little boring. I was always falling asleep at the keyboard, waiting for the guy I was shooting at to finally die. I remember having the same problem with Halo. I don't play either game anymore.
"Galaxy" is an IRC client/server browser. I do agree that it sucks, but you don't have to use it. As for the "CLI" you got, that's the ingame console, which basically all games (Quake 1-4, Doom 3, ET:QW, UT 1-3, etc) have. You should have been able to get out by hitting "escape." If you didn't think to use "esc" you obviously haven't been using computers long enough to know that button's universally understood and respected function. If you want to skip galaxy, try the "quickplay" icon which should also have been installed.
None of the developers have Macs, none are willing to buy one just to port the game. There was someone who was working on a Mac port, had it almost finished, then he disappeared without releasing so much as a header file. He was calling himself "Heisenburguncertain." If you ever run into him online you should ask him about it.
No, it does not. Simply disable GLSL in the "video options" menu and you're good.
Install all the computers from the Ubuntu Server disk, so no games get installed by default. This will give you a basic commandline-only working environment. Then, install only a desktop environment and all the programs you need, nothing else. If you must use the desktop installer disk, you can simply uninstall all the games. After that, simply remove the users from the sudoers group, keep the root password secret and cryptographically secure (ideally a 60-character randomized string from /dev/random,) and no one will be able to install any games or anything.
Electrified sheathing around your insulated cables, surrounded by a layer of duct tape. Make sure the floor is grounded. One or two nibbles is all it takes.
The "Ping O' Death" was a glitch that affected a lot of operating systems-- every single UNIX-like, Mac System 7, Windows 95, Netware, DOS, and others. Even embedded devices like routers, scanners, and printers were susceptible. Basically, if you sent an IP address a "ping" packet that was larger than the legal size, whoever had that IP address would experience anything from a graceful reboot to an instant kernel panic or BSOD. There was a patch available for Linux only 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds after an alert was posted to the mailing list. It took months for Microsloth to get its act together and fix the bug. During that time, pranksters had endless fun crashing computers with the click of a button. http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html
Blah, I meant 5.25 inch. http://www.comp-u-shop.com/servlet/the-35659/Hi-dsh-Speed-USB-9-dsh-in-dsh-1-R-fdsh-W/Detail Also you should get an 8 inch one. (Can't seem to find one but if you look hard enough it'll turn up.) Finally, the tape backup: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=USB+tape+backup&oe=UTF-8&cid=12430681428774783414#ps-sellers Try not to fire all these up at once.
You don't really even need a different PC specifically for the project. Get two USB hubs, that's only two slots and it'll give you eight different drives. Get a 5.5 inch USB floppy drive. Get an IDE a LS240 Superdisk and put it in a USB enclosure (that'll take care of 3.5 inch floppies and Superdisks all in one go.) Get a USB zip drive. Get a tape backup drive (which are still being made, you can get 8 terabyte ones which take three days each to format.) And for the truly retro touch, get a paper-tape reader (I think you'll have to settle for getting that one in a serial port.)