[wplug] Linux games to show off at LAN party

Robert E. Coutch robert.coutch at verizon.net
Sat Mar 25 15:10:11 EST 2006


I tried Cedega and was very unhappy with the results.

On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47 am, Bryon Gill wrote:
> Unreal Tournament 2004 is by far my favorite game for linux right now, and
> thanks to Ryan Gordon (a.k.a. "the linux games industry") it works natively
> and pretty much perfectly, and there's an installer included with the
> retail box- it even has a penguin on it!  Be sure to play onslaught mode if
> you're unfamiliar with the game.
>
> Also worth mentioning is Neverwinter Nights, which has a native linux
> client written with SDL.
>
> If you're willing to use Cedega you can show off warcraft 3 and world of
> warcraft as well, among others.
>
> Bryon
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Tej Shah wrote:
> > Hey everybody. I am about to go to a LAN party here at CMU and I am
> > taking my Linux Desktop with me. Its a pretty high end system so it can
> > play any game there is out there (AMD64 3500+ and Geforce 6800 Ultra).
> >
> > During the LAN Party, I want to prove to my fellow gamers that there are
> > indeed games for Linux. Here is a list of games that I have so far:
> >
> > Quake 4
> > Doom 3
> > Scorched 3D
> > SuperTux
> > Frozen-Bubble
> > Chromium
> > Planet-Penguin Racer (no, not tuxracer!)
> > Blender3D (show off high-end modeling)
> > Neverputt
> > Trackballs
> >
> > Any other games I should show off? The better the graphics, the better I
> > can make my case. I am also going to show off the transluentcy and
> > transparentcies in KDE ;-).
> >
> > Please also note that I am using 64-bit version of Kubuntu (which is
> > pretty much Debian) so some games may not work if they require 32-bit
> > mode (but I got SDL working in 32-bit).
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