Gaming time!

ThRoNkA · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 1:02 pm Post subject: Gaming time!

Ok guys,

I am back running Fedora and got my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro working. I also got my USB and other things to work.. including DVD movie playing. The only thing I have installed in Quake 3 Arena and TuxRacer for games (some othrs are installed, but I think they stink). I have a WineX subscription so I have some of my other games running like GTA3 and Vice City.

What I want to know is if there is any such linux patches for these games (meaing is there a list of patches of known linux patches for POPULAR windows games). I can't seem to get used to freshmeat.net. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE FRESHMEAT.. thats how I found Xine for my DVDs Smile

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nukes · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 3:04 pm Post subject:

ThRoNkA · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 3:37 pm Post subject:

I call them patches.. remember I am still moving over to Fedora... Razz

Yea the binaries to run the games withotu Wine.. because even with Wine they are slow but they get me by for the time being. Better than 50 bucks.. I can afford 5 bucks for Transgaming's WineX Razz

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mmmna · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 4:35 pm Post subject:

Hey ThRoNkA - have you ever played any of the Need for Speed games? If you like that stuff.... try Torcs.

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nukes · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 5:25 pm Post subject:

Mostly its old games that get ported if the software developers release the source.
Companies like id, Epic and Introversion are good about providing binaries for the new games - id normally provide it as a seperate download, Epic put it on the same cd with UT2003/UT2004.
Uplink had them both on the disk as well.
Games that depend on DirectX typically don't get released for Linux - that means no MOH, Halo (not that MS would port it anyway), GTA etc.
Also some developers just can't be bothered, like Valve - who won't port HL or HL2.

Some more:
NWN (I nearly forgot this was for windows too lol)

Just so you know, there's loads of good Linux games, I'm sure crouse won't mind me posting a link to another site:
www.happypenguin.org
has the most complete listing (with links, descriptions and screenshots) of linux games I've seen. It also has a forum where a number of developers hang out like the guy who wrote pingus etc.

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ThRoNkA · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 5:33 pm Post subject:

What about BASS by LucasArts?

nukes · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 5:57 pm Post subject:

Yeah, all the SCUMM (Monkey Island, Tentacle, Sam'n'Max etc) work in Linux thanks to ScummVM:
http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/
Works well, plays well. Even with the talkies (CDROM ones with voice acting) now too Very Happy

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ThRoNkA · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2024 9:16 pm Post subject:

Hey guys.. I found another cool game that is REALLY ADDICTING!!!!
Looks like Mario Kart 3d
http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/

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nukes · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2024 5:53 pm Post subject:

I didn't like that one for some reason. It was rather buggy and the code was a mess so I didn't know how to go about fixing anything.
OpenRacer seems the one to watch if you like that sort of thing:
http://www.worldforge.org/wf/dev/systems/OpenRacer/

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mmmna · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2024 3:24 am Post subject:

TuxCart.... OpenRacer.... is the attraction here based on Tux???

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ThRoNkA · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2024 3:39 pm Post subject:

Well I played it fine here but at home I don't have GLUT so plibs and tuxkart will not compile.. does GLUT work with my current ATI libs?

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nukes · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2024 4:32 pm Post subject:

Should do. GLUT is an API on top of the openGL framework. Just provides some easier to use functions.
Just install it however you normally would. Most of it is calls to libGL etc so you shouldn't have a problem. Mir's box has a Radeon 9200 and works fine with glut.

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ThRoNkA · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2024 12:38 pm Post subject:

Where do I get GLUT?

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nukes · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2024 5:35 pm Post subject:

It might be easier to install a binary for it if your distro provides one, otherwise you can get it here:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/
and fyi (in case you were wondering that too) you can get plib here:
http://plib.sourceforge.net/

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ThRoNkA · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2024 1:20 pm Post subject:

I only see the tarball source that you can compile but its confusing.

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