Linux 'n games

Alexander H.M. Ruoff alexander.ruoff at ruoff-germany.de
Fri Feb 20 16:22:11 UTC 2004


>       Well, last news says that some game companies are planning to make
> live-CD of is games, cause they are prepared to i64 ( read AMD 64bits ) but
> Windows for IA64 is not so stable to use it as gamming platform ( for now
> ). Then, companies are evaluating the possibility to create live-cds based
> on Linux for 64 bits arch, more stable now, and use the Personal Computer
> as VideoGame platform. Just boot from CD, play and shutdown.

Reminds me a bit like those games for playstation... but somehow this development reminds me of the old times with the Amiga. PC Games sucked but slowly the games appeared for the PC market as well and now it dominates it.
Alex





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