[ale] Games and Grub

[Christopher Gilbert]

These are some of the linux game sites most frequented...

http://www.happypenguin.org/
http://www.linuxgames.com/
http://icculus.org/

sometimes runs linux news
http://games.slashdot.org/

or for gentoo
http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-fps


On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:02, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Coggins <ALE at CogginsNet.com> writes:
> 
>     Robert> Hey all!  OK I have 2 machines.  One is strictly linux.  I
>     Robert> want to play some cool 3d shootem up games like unreal or
>     Robert> quake etc on it.  I do not want to add anything windows to
>     Robert> this machine. so no wine etc... Do you guys have a
>     Robert> suggestion for a website to look at?  I am looking for
>     Robert> somehting free.  I never play games but I wouldn't mind
>     Robert> getting a game to "escape" once a month or so.
> 
> Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament 2003 both have Linux versions
> available (the former for download from ID, the later an installer
> comes on the 3rd CD).  Both are relatively cheap (you should be able
> to find either for ~19.95$).  If you want something other than an FPS,
> check out Neverwinter Nights which also has a native Linux version.
> The original's ~30$ and there's two expansions (one just came out this
> week) for about the same price (there may be a `gold version' with the
> game and the first expansion for 50-ish).
> 
> 
> 
> Not free, but if you want to play (some) wintendo games check out
> Transgaming's WineX.  It's pretty reasonably priced, I think it's
> around 3 months for 15$.  It worked pretty well for supported games
> but there's sometimes a lag between the game release and WineX working
> with it, especially if M$ is rev'ing DirectX versions or what not.  If
> I had a working x86 box with enough horsepower I'd definately be
> subscribed to get 3.2 so I could play Homeworld 2.
> 
> http://www.transgaming.com/
> http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?order=working&showall=1