Comments on: ExtremeTech on Linux Gaming

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Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:26:42 +0000

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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:42:09 +0000

I’ve messed around with gearhead recently. It’s a roguelike where you play a mecha pilot…

And the GPL re-implementation of Total Annihilation is coming along nicely. It’s called Spring, formerly TA Spring, but there are non-TA based mods… Anyway, apparently it’s able to play multiplayer Linux vs. Linux now. The simulation running on each computer has to stay in sync, and they don’t have Linux and Windows synced yet :( I’ve just played a few games against the AI on my computer with slow vid hardware… It looks _awesome_, and plays just like like TA, with some even better features.

–
Peter Cordes

By:

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:12:13 +0000

a point I didn’t see was how many of the games Linux runs have great replay value due to the mod teams that more then not support a Linux client… for me, it’s quality not quantity, an that goes for the community too!

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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:25:04 +0000

I’d get a PS3 and run it through the TV card on my linux box long before I’d put Windows on my box. That being said, there are plenty of games to use on linux, you just have to be smart enough to look for them.

By: Thunor

Thunor — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:20:19 +0000

It looks like it’s been written by a Windows gamer who’s tried Linux and then attempted to play Windows games on it and become pissed off. It’s also rather juvenile.

It’s not even about Linux games, it’s about him attempting to get [u]his[/u] Windows games running on Linux and that’s why there’s no mention of icculus.org, LGP or FOSS projects.

I agree with him when he states people should buy Windows and dual-boot to play Windows games. I mean you don’t buy a PS2 to play Xbox games do you?

The article is simply a juvenile rant. It should really be titled “Why Windows Gaming Sucks On Linux” and quite frankly I don’t care if it does.

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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:50:37 +0000

Yeah, Warcraft 3 will run okay on a high end Linux PC-2 Ghz non-Core 2 Duo or better of course, so VMWare is certainly an option if you want to play semi-modern games, but not cutting edge stuff. Direct X8 is playable for most titles, but Direct X9 and newer are out of the question at the moment.

By: dorpsgek

dorpsgek — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:55:05 +0000

Extremetech, what’s that :D

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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:08:20 +0000

To help dispel the myth of linux games being competely dead here’s my top 10 list of new non-Loki commercial games:

1) Unreal Tournament 2004
2) Quake 4
3) Doom 3
4) Savage: The Battle for Newerth (now freeware)
5) Enemy Territory (now freeware)
6) Majesty Gold
7) Serious Sam 2 (still in beta)
8) Northland
9) Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
10) A Tale in the Desert

There are of course many more games:
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
Everyone has their own tastes, maybe linuxgames.com could do some kind of poll to get a consensus on the top 10.

By: Starbuck Zero

Starbuck Zero — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:30:35 +0000

I work for a company that develop online training courses for the government. It’s easier for me to develop something in lets say Flash. Then HTML and CSS for the simple fact the client wants Multimedia base software. Now I seen some companies develop trying software using HTML/VBScript/ActiveX controls or HTML/JavaScript/Windows MediaPlayer and I feel that’s not the way to go.

Do keep in mind that our in house tools are developed in Java and our Content Management System will be develop using AJAX,PHP and mySQL. It’s just the front-end will be in Flash. So no I don’t develop dumb flash games or flash ads. I develop software to help train people to protect the US. Don’t worry everything I develop will support Windows, MacOS, and Linux. I give you my word.

By:

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:12:24 +0000

> I know we got the Flash 9 plug-in but we’ll need
> the Flash 8 IDE or Flex IDE under Linux for me to > be able to take home work.

I hope Flash will die.