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[abarbarian]

Sleep Is Deathhttp://sleepisdeath.net/http://sleepisdeath.net/community.phphttp://sleepisdeath.net/slideShowThe last link is well worth a click.   Looks very interesting and could be a lot of fun.  

[ChipDoc]

I've got to admit it certainly does look interesting.  I'll get back to that one!

[abarbarian]

http://www.penguspy..../view=1/limit=0The above is a cool site to direct new GNU/Linux gamers to. It gives a really slick presentation of free and comercial games for penguins.

[securitybreach]

Awesome!!! Thanks for the link

[Temmu]

quite the site, abarbarian!

[abarbarian]

http://www.phoronix....s...m&px=ODkxMAhttp://www.humblebundle.com/"The HumbleIndie Bundle #2Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $85 but we're letting you set the price!All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.You can support charity. Choose exactly how your purchase money is divided: Between the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child's Play Charity. Also, if you like this deal, a tip to the Humble Bundle itself would be much appreciated!"Worth subscribing to just for Machanarium. Looks like the Windows skinflints pay half the amount the penguin crowd pay.    Maybe I'm being too harsh, could be that they simply can not afford to pay any more as they have already been bled dry by MS.  

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abarbarian, on Dec 14 2010, 07:03 PM, said:

http://www.phoronix....s...m&px=ODkxMAhttp://www.humblebundle.com/"The HumbleIndie Bundle #2Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $85 but we're letting you set the price!All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.You can support charity. Choose exactly how your purchase money is divided: Between the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child's Play Charity. Also, if you like this deal, a tip to the Humble Bundle itself would be much appreciated!"Worth subscribing to just for Machanarium. Looks like the Windows skinflints pay half the amount the penguin crowd pay.    Maybe I'm being too harsh, could be that they simply can not afford to pay any more as they have already been bled dry by MS.  

Kewl, I may have to buy this one since I bought the first Humble Indie Bundle pack. Great games!!

[wa4chq]

I forgot all about this game until now.... xlander .... I used to play it off and on over the years.

[abarbarian]

25 awesome Cross-platform games you can download for free http://downloadsquad...ws-mac-linux-5/There has to be something here for everyone.  

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abarbarian, on Jan 2 2011, 10:53 AM, said:

25 awesome Cross-platform games you can download for free http://downloadsquad...ws-mac-linux-5/There has to be something here for everyone.  

Nice link, I installed a few of themThanks

[abarbarian]

securitybreach, on Jan 2 2011, 12:55 PM, said:

Nice link, downloaded a few of them.THanks

Which ones ??I'm looking forward to Yo Frankie if I manage to get Arch installed tomorrow    Tried to run it under Mandy but had issues with the right Blender version so gave up. Can not have a retry as Mandy has been wiped from me life   I think I'll try Wolfenstein on 7 just to cheer meself up, shooting krauts is way better than crying over lost loves  

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abarbarian, on Jan 2 2011, 12:16 PM, said:

Which ones ??I'm looking forward to Yo Frankie if I manage to get Arch installed tomorrow    Tried to run it under Mandy but had issues with the right Blender version so gave up. Can not have a retry as Mandy has been wiped from me life   I think I'll try Wolfenstein on 7 just to cheer meself up, shooting krauts is way better than crying over lost loves  

I installed freedroid and glest (actually MegaGlest). Most all of the games are in the Arch repos including Wolfenstein. There are lots of different versions/mods of Wolfenstein ET available on the Arch repos.

[ChipDoc]

Thanks for the link!  I installed LinCity (which was available through Synaptic, incidentally) and got totally distracted by playing it for the last few hours.  

[sunrat]

ChipDoc, on Jan 4 2011, 01:33 AM, said:

Thanks for the link!  I installed LinCity (which was available through Synaptic, incidentally) and got totally distracted by playing it for the last few hours.  

Did you get lincity-ng? It's more recent and prettier than the original.

[abarbarian]

securitybreach, on Jan 2 2011, 01:31 PM, said:

I installed freedroid and glest (actually MegaGlest). Most all of the games are in the Arch repos including Wolfenstein. There are lots of different versions/mods of Wolfenstein ET available on the Arch repos.

Freedroid is neat I played some of it a couple of years ago but got stuck   I'll have to give it another go.

securitybreach, on Jan 2 2011, 01:31 PM, said:

I installed freedroid and glest (actually MegaGlest). Most all of the games are in the Arch repos including Wolfenstein. There are lots of different versions/mods of Wolfenstein ET available on the Arch repos.

Freedroid is neat I played some of it a couple of years ago but got stuck   I'll have to give it another go.

[Temmu]

neat.i'm seeing in stereo...

[ChipDoc]

sunrat, on Jan 3 2011, 05:05 PM, said:

Did you get lincity-ng? It's more recent and prettier than the original.

Yep, that's the one!

[abarbarian]

Temmu, on Jan 4 2011, 02:04 AM, said:

neat.i'm seeing in stereo...

That is either DT's from too much celebrating or too many hours playing Painkiller, both can cause twitchy finger  

[rolanaj]

Arch is based on Debian isn't it? That would explain all those games being in the repositories. Bruno once sent me a copy of Debian it included 14 cds, there was everything I could imagine in there.I was kind of hoping that Yo Frankie! would be in the repos for PCLinuxOS but so far no luck. I don't know if any of those games are there actually.

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rolanaj, on Jan 4 2011, 04:46 PM, said:

Arch is based on Debian isn't it? That would explain all those games being in the repositories. Bruno once sent me a copy of Debian it included 14 cds, there was everything I could imagine in there.I was kind of hoping that Yo Frankie! would be in the repos for PCLinuxOS but so far no luck. I don't know if any of those games are there actually.

No Archlinux is not based upon Debian, if anything it was originally based upon Crux Linux:Arch Compared to Other Distributions

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Judd Vinet, a Canadian programmer and occasional guitarist, began developing Arch Linux in early 2001. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Inspired by the elegant simplicity of Slackware, Polish Linux Distribution, and CRUX, and yet disappointed with the lack of package management; Vinet built his own distribution on similar principles as those distros. But, he also wrote a package management program called pacman, to automatically handle package installation, removal, and upgrades.

https://wiki.archlin...y_of_Arch_LinuxArchlinux has 8,779 official packages and another 26,748 in the community repos (AUR).

[rolanaj]

Thanks for the information. The fact that it was developed by a Canadian makes it even more interesting, at least to a fellow Canadian

[securitybreach]

rolanaj, on Jan 4 2011, 05:44 PM, said:

Thanks for the information. The fact that it was developed by a Canadian makes it even more interesting, at least to a fellow Canadian

[Temmu]

agreeing (kinda) with wiki.archlinux.org,the gnu/linux distro timeline by a. lundqvist shows arch as a branch of crux, and crux as an independent node (no father node).

[rolanaj]

This link was posted on the PCLinuxOS forum but I think these games should work in most versions of Linux. I did find some of them already in the repos for PCLinuxOS, not all of them though. I installed Dosbox but so far can't seem to save in any of the games which isn't great when playing a sim or rpg.

[abarbarian]

"Play Bioware's Infinity Engine Games PlaneScape Torment, Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale Natively on LinuxBioware's Infinity Engine was home to many great games in past that totally defined RPG game genre with deep storyline, engaging gameplay, isometric graphics, and dungeons and dragons rules based gameplay. Almost all the games under infinity engine became hugely popular and are even today considered to be best games in their genre with huge dedicated fan base.Games Based on Infinity Engine:    * Bladur's Gate I and expansion pack Tales From The Sword Coast    * Planescape : Torment    * Icewind Dale I and expansion packs: Heart of Winter and Trials of Luremaster    * Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and expansion Throne of Bhaal    * Icewind Dale IIThese all time classic games can be played natively on Linux thanks to project called GemRB.About GemRBGemRB (Game Engine Made with Pre-Rendered Background) is a "port" (actually a new implementation) of the original Infinity Engine  to Linux/Unix, Mac OSX and Windows with some enhancements. "http://www.ubuntuvib...gine-games.htmlThis looks like an interesting development if you play those games.