Decent Games for Fedora?

[Nick Wilson]

Hi all,

After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
*right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?

It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just fails
miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll work
nice on Fedora.

...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)

any recommendations?

[Robert Marcano]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:33, Nick Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
>
> It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just fails
> miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll work
> nice on Fedora.
>
> ...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)
>
> any recommendations?

Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Robert Marcano declared....
> > It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just fails
> > miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll work
> > nice on Fedora.
> >
> > ...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)
> >
> > any recommendations?
>
> Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?

Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I
get nothing, where can I download these things?

Much thanks

[Gavin Henry]

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On Thursday 27 November 2003 2:57 pm, Nick Wilson wrote:
> and then Robert Marcano declared....
> > > It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just
> > > fails miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll
> > > work nice on Fedora.
> > >
> > > ...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)
> > >
> > > any recommendations?
> >
> > Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository
> > and livna.org repositories?
>
> Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I
> get nothing, where can I download these things?
>
> Much thanks

try http://rpm.livna.org/

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Regards,

Gavin Henry

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[Pavel Rosenboim]

Nick Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
>
> It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just fails
> miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll work
> nice on Fedora.
>
> ...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)
>
> any recommendations?

This is not exactly what you asked, but did you try to disable 
exec-shield? run (as root) echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield.

Pavel.

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:57, Nick Wilson wrote:
> > > any recommendations?
> >
> > Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?
>
> Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I

Try http://rpm.livna.org/  
The suggestion is that you add livna to your yum or up2date
configuration, then add the software that way.

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Qui, 2003-11-27 às 12:33, Nick Wilson escreveu:
> After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?

It depends on how good is your video card :-) Do you know quakeIII
arena? There's a free version preety usable..

There's wolfenstein enemy territory, which is free..

[Robert Marcano]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:13, John Hearns wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:57, Nick Wilson wrote:
> > > > any recommendations?
> > >
> > > Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?
> >
> > Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I
>
> Try http://rpm.livna.org/  
> The suggestion is that you add livna to your yum or up2date
> configuration, then add the software that way.

Add to /etc/yum.conf
---Cut-----------------
[fedora-us-1]
name=Fedora US stable
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stableexcl...
                                                                                [livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
---Cut-----------------

and to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources (this are two lines in case the email
program broke them in more than two lines)

---Cut-----------------
yum fedora-us-1
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum livna-stable http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
---Cut-----------------

then execute "yum install foobillard frozenbubble"
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[Alexandre Strube]

Em Qui, 2003-11-27 às 13:12, Pavel Rosenboim escreveu:

Someone said about frozen-bubble...

Just to let you know, if gimp-1.3 is installed, frozen-bubble will not
do its way... It depends on gimp-perl, so..

gimp-perl: Depende: gimp (= 1:1.2.5) mas 1:1.3.22-1.fr está para ser
instalado
             Depende: libgimp-1.2.so.0
             Depende: libgimpui-1.2.so.0

[Nick Wilson]

* and then John Hearns declared....
> > > Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?
> >
> > Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I
>
> Try http://rpm.livna.org/  
> The suggestion is that you add livna to your yum or up2date
> configuration, then add the software that way.

More than happy too. How?

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Robert Marcano declared....
> Add to /etc/yum.conf

Ooops! - Should have read the whole thread, thanks!

[Alexandre Strube]

> > There's wolfenstein enemy territory, which is free..
>
> I tried to get Quake on my old rh9 with no luck. Happy to have another
> go though, you got links to those 2 games?

Hum... no. Id software, of course, but the direct download links I don't
know.

If you want to test enemy territory without installing it, you can
download its self-running iso from http://gentoogames.com (which reminds
me those video games where you just put cd and everything works)

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 16:49, Nick Wilson wrote:
> and then John Hearns declared....
> > > > Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?
> > >
> > > Hmm... no, not foobillard or frozenbubble - When I thy www.livna.org I
> >
> > Try http://rpm.livna.org/  
> > The suggestion is that you add livna to your yum or up2date
> > configuration, then add the software that way.
>
> More than happy too. How?

The instructions are on the page.
Look at the 'For Fedora' section.

Do what it says, then  'yum install frozenbubble'

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Alexandre Strube declared....
> Em Qui, 2003-11-27 às 12:33, Nick Wilson escreveu:
> > After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> > *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
>
> It depends on how good is your video card :-) Do you know quakeIII
> arena? There's a free version preety usable..
>
> There's wolfenstein enemy territory, which is free..

I tried to get Quake on my old rh9 with no luck. Happy to have another
go though, you got links to those 2 games?

Cheeers!

[Nick Wilson]

* and then John Hearns declared....
> Do what it says, then  'yum install frozenbubble'

Thanks very much, frozenbubble is a superb game ;-)

[Christophe Le Guern]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:35:30 -0200
Alexandre Strube  wrote:
> Em Qui, 2003-11-27 às 13:12, Pavel Rosenboim escreveu:
>
> Someone said about frozen-bubble...
>
> Just to let you know, if gimp-1.3 is installed, frozen-bubble will not
> do its way... It depends on gimp-perl, so..
>
> gimp-perl: Depende: gimp (= 1:1.2.5) mas 1:1.3.22-1.fr está para ser
> instalado
>              Depende: libgimp-1.2.so.0
>              Depende: libgimpui-1.2.so.0
>
> -- 
> []s

but .... if you're impatient, try http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Christophe

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:35:30 -0200, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> Em Qui, 2003-11-27 às 13:12, Pavel Rosenboim escreveu:
>
> Someone said about frozen-bubble...
>
> Just to let you know, if gimp-1.3 is installed, frozen-bubble will not
> do its way... It depends on gimp-perl, so..
>
> gimp-perl: Depende: gimp (= 1:1.2.5) mas 1:1.3.22-1.fr está para ser
> instalado
>              Depende: libgimp-1.2.so.0
>              Depende: libgimpui-1.2.so.0

No such problem with the gimp2-1.3.* packages from fedora.us. They do
co-exist with the stable gimp that comes with Fedora Core.

--

[Wayne Schuller]

hi,

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 01:33, Nick Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?

enigma is a great puzzle game is lots of fun.

http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

highly recommended... very polished

thanks,
wayne

[Tarjei Knapstad]

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:19, Wayne Schuller wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 01:33, Nick Wilson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> > *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
>
> enigma is a great puzzle game is lots of fun.
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

Pathological or XLogical is good fun if you like puzzles:

http://pathological.sourceforge.net/
http://changeling.ixionstudios.com/xlogical/

(and if you played the original Logical on the Amiga ;))

--
Tarjei

Platform Games for Fedora

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Wayne Schuller declared....
> > After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> > *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
>
> enigma is a great puzzle game is lots of fun.
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

Yep, that *is* is a good game! ;-)

So, what about *platform games* for fedora? - My eyes' aint too good and
first person shooters are somewhat tough for me (though i like them)...?

[Bill Anderson]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 07:47, Robert Marcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:33, Nick Wilson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After getting my video drivers sorted I'm keen to know what games work
> > *right out the box* (or near as) for Fedora?
> >
> > It seems every time I try to compile somthing cool looking it just fails
> > miserably, and I'd really like to see some 'free' games that'll work
> > nice on Fedora.
> >
> > ...and no, i dont' mean like the ones that come with KDE ;-)
> >
> > any recommendations?
>
> Have you tried FooBillard, GlTron, FrozenBubble from fedora.us repository and livna.org repositories?

Stay away from FrozenBubble, it is addictive. It took me many many hours
on many many days to finally reach the end.

:^D

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Bill Anderson declared....
> Stay away from FrozenBubble, it is addictive. It took me many many hours
> on many many days to finally reach the end.

HAHAHA!

I got to level 40 or so but the damn thing won't kill me so I had to
manually quit! - How many levels are there?

[Alastair Porter]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:22, Nick Wilson wrote:
> and then Bill Anderson declared....
> > Stay away from FrozenBubble, it is addictive. It took me many many hours
> > on many many days to finally reach the end.
>
> HAHAHA!
>
> I got to level 40 or so but the damn thing won't kill me so I had to
> manually quit! - How many levels are there?

100 iirc, but there is also a level editor so you can make your own

Alastair

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Sáb, 2003-11-29 às 19:22, Nick Wilson escreveu:
> I got to level 40 or so but the damn thing won't kill me so I had to
> manually quit! - How many levels are there?

There are only 100 :-( hehehehe