Re: Video Demos of Games for Linux

Micoshaft Asstroturfer flatfish@linuxmail.org wrote on behalf of Micoshaft
Corporation:

> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
> wrote:

>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>

>
> Games for Linux?
> You must be joking?
> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?

You can't play tetris on Micoshaft Corporation's products any more.
It is too slow that games producers are rushing out to port
everything to Linux.
http://www.livecdlist.com for hundreds of Linux distros with a
couple solely dedicated to games. All free and with source
code to modify gameplay to heart's content.

Vista Pista Who Cares?

The public are fed up of Pistification of their PCs.

Asstroturfer Hadron wrote on behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:

> flatfish@linuxmail.org writes:
>

>> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
>> wrote:

>>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>>

>>
>> Games for Linux?
>> You must be joking?
>> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?
>>

>
> You have been away for too long. There is now a port of the classic
> Sopwith 2 for SDL and Linux.
>
> http://sopwith.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sop2.htm
>
> It R0XXorZ!

You can't play sopwith on Micoshaft Corporation's products any more.
It is too slow that games producers are rushing out to port
everything to Linux.
http://www.livecdlist.com for hundreds of Linux distros with a
couple solely dedicated to games. All free and with source
code to modify gameplay to heart's content.

Vista Pista Who Cares?

The public are fed up of Pistification of their PCs.

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:39:13 -0700, flatfish wrote:

> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
> wrote:

>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>

>
> Games for Linux?
> You must be joking?
> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?

For God's sake shut it, flatty.

FYI, there are a number of pretty good games for Linux.

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> Asstroturfer Hadron wrote on behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:
>

>> flatfish@linuxmail.org writes:
>>

>>> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>>>
>>>
>>> Games for Linux?
>>> You must be joking?
>>> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?
>>>

>>
>> You have been away for too long. There is now a port of the classic
>> Sopwith 2 for SDL and Linux.
>>
>> http://sopwith.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sop2.htm
>>
>> It R0XXorZ!

>
>
> You can't play sopwith on Micoshaft Corporation's products any more.

Fucking liar,
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=73096
sopwith-3.0.0-win32. Runs "great" in Vista!
Jeez, your a moron!

> It is too slow that games producers are rushing out to port
> everything to Linux.
> http://www.livecdlist.com for hundreds of Linux distros with a
> couple solely dedicated to games. All free and with source
> code to modify gameplay to heart's content.
>
> Vista Pista Who Cares?
>
> The public are fed up of Pistification of their PCs.
>

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
<hadronquark@googlemail.com>
wrote
on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:46:07 +0200
<0qmywdsnio.fsf@homelinux.net>:

> flatfish@linuxmail.org writes:
>

>> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
>> wrote:

>>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>>

>>
>> Games for Linux?
>> You must be joking?
>> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?
>>

>
> You have been away for too long. There is now a port of the classic
> Sopwith 2 for SDL and Linux.
>
> http://sopwith.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sop2.htm
>
> It R0XXorZ!
>

Well, if one likes that sort of thing. Personally,
I prefer 3-D shootemups such as UT2004, Nexuiz, and the
DOOM 3 Demo, all of which are available on Linux, and a
little more modern than the Sopwith 2, though I am also
wondering whether the games are going the way of toys:
instead of fairly generic "go anywhere" affairs we might be
getting heavily scripted crap.

(The best example of this might be the Quake series.
Quake I dumps the user into a rather novel (for its time)
multiportal affair to adjust difficulty; there's not a
lot of back story, really. Quake II I forget exactly
what it does, but I believe it uses a more conventional
difficulty/control system; the intro was rather nice, and
established the context. Quake III Arena Demo suggests
it is a Unreal Tournament lookalike, and I do not have the
game proper, just the demo; most likely it had a number of
scenarios through which the tournament player progressed
through the ranks, ultimately contending with the boss of
bosses, whoever he is (in UT and UT2004, an individual
named Xan figures prominently, but that's a different
game). Quake 4 is more like a movie, chronicaling a rather
major war with the Strogg through the eyes of a single
private, his squadmates, and other squads he encounters
as they try to defeat the enemy. Of course one is expected
to be able to aim to continue to the next scene...)

Lately, I've been quite enamored of an instance
of quite another genre, the MMORPG:

http://www.eternal-lands.com/

This particular game has no set objective, beyond
developing one's character (in many directions, from
engineering snares and land mines to fighting increasingly
difficult monsters). Among other things it boasts a very
active trading community, guilds, and a magic spell system.
I don't know how unique the spell system is, but it works.

The Linux client also works reasonably well. The main
problems I have are with sound and my graphics card; the
former is largely nonexistent but I'm not missing much
yet (woo, thunder and lightning), and the latter might
be performance-related. Of course, what sound should one
make if one manufactures a sword, spins a spool of thread
from cotton, teleports, or kills a dragon?

If I get time and inclination (and some knowledge about
OpenALSA) I'll do some more research on the sound.

As for Tetris:

http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/svgtetris

And then there are various Flash games, which work with
varying amounts of success (more often than not, actually,
and the failures are either plugin-related -- no, I can't
play Shockwave; it has to be Flash! -- or possibly because
of performance issues).

No doubt someone's ported Sopwith 2 to Flash by now.

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>> Asstroturfer Hadron wrote on behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:
>>

>>> flatfish@linuxmail.org writes:
>>>
>>>> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Games for Linux?
>>>> You must be joking?
>>>> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You have been away for too long. There is now a port of the classic
>>> Sopwith 2 for SDL and Linux.
>>>
>>> http://sopwith.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sop2.htm
>>>
>>> It R0XXorZ!

>>
>>
>> You can't play sopwith on Micoshaft Corporation's products any more.

>
> Fucking liar,
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=73096
> sopwith-3.0.0-win32. Runs "great" in Vista!
> Jeez, your a moron!

Is that with music or without?
If you are playing music, your network loses 90% of its speed.

>> It is too slow that games producers are rushing out to port
>> everything to Linux.
>> http://www.livecdlist.com for hundreds of Linux distros with a
>> couple solely dedicated to games. All free and with source
>> code to modify gameplay to heart's content.
>>
>> Vista Pista Who Cares?
>>
>> The public are fed up of Pistification of their PCs.
>>

<flatfish@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
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> On Aug 26, 9:33 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
> wrote:

>> Ubuntu Linux Games - Top Picks
>>

>
> Games for Linux?
> You must be joking?
> Hasn't Tetris been overplayed by now?

The new Penny Arcade game is coming to Linux, I play Lord of the Rings
Online and EQ2 on my linux box (it's the one on my 1080p HDTV).

Linux isn't all bad, it still doesn't play HDCP stuff though, fortunatly
that isn't a huge issue since HDCP isn't really being used just now, but I
got a HD-DVD drive (the MS 360 one) and it only works in Vista. Might have
to break down and swap out Linux for Vista soon.

-A