Games

[Ali Helmy]

Hey,

Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
impossible to continue my life normally without them...

So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?

--
A. Helmy

[Jon D. Slater]

Without running WINE, there are a few options.

For example, NeverWinter Nights will run on either XP or FC4.  (There's 
a downloadable patch for it to run under Linux).

Jon

Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source 
> fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a 
> deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is 
> impossible to continue my life normally without them...
>
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) 
> that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work 
> only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?
>
> -- 
> A. Helmy

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ali Helmy writes:
> Hey,
>
> Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source 
> fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a 
> deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is 
> impossible to continue my life normally without them...
>
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I 
> can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my 
> laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?

The best strategy game, IMO, is Freeciv, www.freeciv.org.

For light action/adventure game, there's supertux in Extras.

[Benjamin Franz]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Ali Helmy wrote:
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
> can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
> laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?

http://www.linux-gamers.net/

[Andrew Couture]

Why not try..

ut2003 (c/w server)
ut2004 (c/w server)
doom(all of them)
quake(all of them)

all run without 'wine' or their derivatives.

With P2P (cedega - http://www.transgaming.com/) there are
more choices.

old but not out....

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ali Helmy writes:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source 
> > fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a 
> > deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is 
> > impossible to continue my life normally without them...
> > So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) 
> > that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work 
> > only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?
>
> The best strategy game, IMO, is Freeciv, www.freeciv.org.
>
> For light action/adventure game, there's supertux in Extras.

[Jerel Harwood]

If you're not into first person shooters, Bioware has ported their RPG
Neverwinter Nights to linux as well.

-Jerel

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
On Behalf Of Andrew Couture
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 08:30 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Games

Why not try..

ut2003 (c/w server)
ut2004 (c/w server)
doom(all of them)
quake(all of them)

all run without 'wine' or their derivatives.

With P2P (cedega - http://www.transgaming.com/) there are
more choices.

old but not out....

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ali Helmy writes:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source 
> > fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a 
> > deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is 
> > impossible to continue my life normally without them...
> > So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) 
> > that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work 
> > only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?
>
> The best strategy game, IMO, is Freeciv, www.freeciv.org.
>
> For light action/adventure game, there's supertux in Extras.

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 00:57 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
> fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
> deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
> impossible to continue my life normally without them...
>
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap)
> that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work
> only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming
> machine?

Use the tool that meets the needs best.
For gaming - that pretty much means Win XP for now.

[Arturo Alejandro Hoffstadt Urrutia]

El Sábado, 31 de Diciembre de 2005 19:57, Ali Helmy escribió:
> Hey,
>
> Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
> fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
> deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
> impossible to continue my life normally without them...

Obviously!!!!

Here is a list of sites you should try:
-http://happypenguin.org/
-http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com (I think most of this site are commercial, 
i don't visit this site frequently)
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
> can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
> laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?

Notice that most games that I mention here are not in Fedora Core 1-4 or the 
extras... Some of them have to be downloaded in tarballs and compiled... 
(UFFFFFF)

The ones I have found really interesting:

-New OS Games that I found good
-Enrapture - http://enrapture.janq.org/
-Dark Oberon - http://dark-oberon.sourceforge.net/
-PaintBall - http://www.planetquake.com/digitalpaint/
-Tunder & Lighting - http://tnlgame.net/component/
-NoGravity - http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/linux.html
-TuxKart (Found while I was writing this email... reminds me other games...)   
  http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/
-Nexius - http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php?module=media
-LincityNG (In FC Extras)
 -http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
 -http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=lincity
-VDrift - http://vdrift.net/
-Shotgun Debugger - http://sdb.gamecreation.org/
-RuneScape (MORPG) - http://www.runescape.com/
-BlackLegacy - http://www.black-legacy.com/?page_id=39
-GLTron - http://www.protorusz.hu/%7Ebmate/bmextgltron/main.php
-Freedroid (In FC Extras) - http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/download.php
   (Look for FreedroidRPG --> Diablo2+Gothic+Tux!!!!!!)
-Neverball (In FC extras) - http://icculus.org/neverball/#download
-Battle for Wesnoth (In FC Extras) - http://www.wesnoth.org/downloads
-Torcs (In FCExtras) - http://torcs.sourceforge.net/
-TA Spring (Still not oficially ported to linux..., sniff)
 -http://taspring.clan-sy.com/
-Crossfire - http://crossfire.real-time.com/
-XShipsWar - http://wolfpack.twu.net/ShipWars/XShipWars/
-CriticalMass - http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net/critter.php
-Clonk - http://www.clonk.de/
-SuperMarioWar - http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/
-Sorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
-GLest!!!!!!!! (Great) - http://www.glest.org/es/index.html

-Still have to wait, but promises a lot
-FreeTenis - http://freetennis.sourceforge.net/
-Crown and Curlass - http://crownandcutlass.sourceforge.net/
-OpenCity - http://opencity.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
-Mistlands - http://www.zeropointgameplay.com/downloads.php
-GemRB (Port of Infinity Engine, Baldur's Gate)
 -http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/
-Warsow - http://www.warsow.net
-Boson - http://boson.eu.org/

-Any port of antique games... (classics)
-Exult
-Freeciv - http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Download
-FreeSCI (Port of the Sierra Engine ->[Police,King,Space] Quest) - 
  http://freesci.linuxgames.com/?page=download
-Lincity - http://lincity.sourceforge.net/
-Lord of the rings - http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Ebenes/lotr/
-Heart of the Aliens (Port of another world) - http://hota.sourceforge.net/
-Flashback - http://membres.lycos.fr/cyxdown/reminiscence/

-Emulators
-NeoGEO - http://m.peponas.free.fr/gngeo/
-Mupen64 - http://mupen64.emulation64.com/

-Ports of Classic games
-Descent
 -http://icculus.org/d2x/
 -http://www.descent2.de/d2x.html
-Doom/Heretic/etc - http://www.vavoom-engine.com/
-Doom - http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/download.php
-WingCommander - http://priv.solsector.net/images.htm

-Ports of games that are no a classic yet
-Alien Versus Predators... (discontinued) http://icculus.org/avp/
-Freespace - http://icculus.org/freespace2/index.php
-Hexen 2 - http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/

-A Set of abstract shooters
-http://noiz2sa.sourceforge.net/
-http://tumiki.sourceforge.net/
-http://www.emhsoft.net/area2028/
-http://parsec47.sourceforge.net/
-http://www.emhsoft.net/ttrooper/index.html
-http://a7xpg.sourceforge.net/
-http://rrootage.sourceforge.net/
> --
> A. Helmy

[Colin J Thomson]

On Monday 02 January 2006 12:43, Arturo Alejandro Hoffstadt Urrutia wrote:
> El Sábado, 31 de Diciembre de 2005 19:57, Ali Helmy escribió:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
> > fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
> > deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
> > impossible to continue my life normally without them...
>
> Obviously!!!!
>
> Here is a list of sites you should try:

Snip..

This site is very good also for commercial games:

http://www.tuxgames.com/

HTH

Colin

[James Wilkinson]

Ali Helmy wrote:
> So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
> can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
> laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?

If you're interested in old-fashioned point-and-click adventure games
like Monkey Island, then "Beneath a Steel Sky" is available (package
name bass) from livna. This was a commercial game that has been released
as freeware by its authors.

It uses the scummvm package (also available from livna: not sure why
this isn't part of Extras, since it's GPL) which provides the "engine"
for the game.

BASS, Monkey Island, and a number of other similar games were written
for various "virtual machines" that provide most or all of the
programming. The rest of the game is data: sound files, picture files,
dialogue, and scripting that ties the lot together. ScummVM emulates
several of these virtual machines. You need a copy of the data to
actually run the game: as I say, the BASS data is freeware. Several
other games are in the process of being made available for ScummVM:
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Discworld
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Kyra

Hope this helps,

James.

[Robin Laing]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 00:57 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
> > fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
> > deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
> > impossible to continue my life normally without them...
> >
> > So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap)
> > that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work
> > only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming
> > machine?
>
> Use the tool that meets the needs best.
> For gaming - that pretty much means Win XP for now.

nah, a game consol is better in my opinion.  I am waiting for the PS3 
as it is supposed to have Linux on the HD. :)

I installed Yumex and did a search for game and came across more games 
than I care to mention.  But there are many more games available.

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 02:18 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 00:57 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
> > fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
> > deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
> > impossible to continue my life normally without them...
> >
> > So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap)
> > that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work
> > only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming
> > machine?
>
> Use the tool that meets the needs best.
> For gaming - that pretty much means Win XP for now.

I play several 'windows only' games on Linux using cedega.  In general
it supports almost all the available games (with exception of the very
latest releases of some games).

Check it out at http://www.transgaming.com/