Which of the games from the install list are good?

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  1. scooble

    scooble

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    I tried downloading a couple, some are sooo slow, others have really blocky graphics (seen better on a spectrum). The only one that blew my socks off so far is Quake Arena.
    Any others worth downloading?
     
    scooble, Sep 6, 2008
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    i rather like neverball
     
    charly, Sep 9, 2008
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    Ufo alien invasion is allso pretty cool, it's a 3d xcom like game. For some reason the menu or 'world view' is really really slow, but once the game starts it's fine. I think it's great for the A1 because it's turn based so you don't get killed if you don't have a proper mouse :D

    linkage > http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/

    Please let me know how the map views are working out for you guys, i'd really like to find a fix for that
     
    charly, Sep 17, 2008
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    ufo-i tried downloading linux version but file could not be opened, how did you get it to work?
     
    majorjam, Sep 21, 2008
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    Hmm, i think i just used the package manager to install it... Either that or i just used yum.

    But i've broken my desktop so i had to reinstall the whole thing. I'll try to get UFO AI back on it as soon as i have some time and let you know.

    UPDATE : So, i installed UFO-AI again, just select it in the package manager and wait for it to finish.
    Then you should edit the values below in the config.cfg file (should be in : /home/user/.ufoai/2.2.1/base ) to make the resolution fit the A1 and make the game run full screen.

    set vid_mode "-1" (makes the game ignore it's preset resolutions and use the one you give)
    set vid_height "600" (duh)
    set vid_width "1024" (duh)
    set vid_fullscreen "1" (makes the game run fullscreen)

    I'm still tweaking the ingame settings, but switching the geoscape to 3d (this option is under 'game' for some reason) seems to resolve the slowdown i mentioned in my earlier post ... Either that or the intel driver update did the trick, there's a howto for that on this forum somewhere.

    enjoy y'all
     
    charly, Sep 22, 2008
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    I think Open Arena is better than Quake Arena
     
    AceUser, Sep 22, 2008
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    sorry but 'package manager' where do i find that (linux newbee) :(
     
    majorjam, Sep 22, 2008
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    i couldn't see ufo alien invasion on the list and I don't know how to use yum as i am a noob :-(
     
    scooble, Sep 29, 2008
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    Noob or not, these things are easy to figure out if you take the time to look around this forum a little.
    You did register so you should be able to use the search :roll:

    It's not like i ever used linux before i got my A1 ;)
     
    charly, Sep 30, 2008
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    thankyou so much, thats exactly the info I required
     
    scooble, Sep 30, 2008
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    yeah got ufo to install and it works fine :)
     
    majorjam, Oct 1, 2008
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    Did anyone try to run Neverball? Is there a binary image for Linux available? I'm having trouble compiling the source code as it is complaining about missing components starting from "make" "SDL" and so on.
     
    kman, Oct 3, 2008
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    You should not have to compile it yourself. The easiest way to install the game is by using the package manager or yum.
    Search the forum if you don't know how.
     
    charly, Oct 5, 2008
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    how do i install this via terminal? sudo yum install and then? thanks.
     
    jhedrotten, Oct 10, 2008
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    For those confused, I'll give an example using a game I love and think y'all should try out :)

    I knew that Descent (both the original and the second game...and the unrelated Freespace 1&2, actually, but that's another story) was open sourced, so I figured even with Fedora's repositories being a bit limited there'd probably be something in there.

    I opened a terminal (yakuake is my favourite, but you could run "xterm" or "terminal" which are both built-in to the AA1 by default). First I searched, then I made sure it was what I thought it was, then I installed the package:

    Code:
    [user@localhost ~]$ yum search descent
    d1x-full.i386 : D1X - binaries for full version of game
    perl-Parse-RecDescent.noarch : Parse-RecDescent Perl module
    d1x-shareware.i386 : D1X - binaries for shareware version of game
    d1x-shareware.i386 : D1X - binaries for shareware version of game
    
    [user@localhost ~]$ yum info d1x-shareware
    
    Available Packages
    Name   : d1x-shareware
    Arch   : i386
    Version: 1.43
    Release: 5.lvn6
    Size   : 6.2 M
    Repo   : installed
    Summary: D1X - binaries for shareware version of game
    
    Description:                      
    D1X is a modification of the Descent 1 source that was released by
    Parallax. It's mostly compatible with the Descent 1 v1.5, both in
    multiplayer and on the local machine.
    
    This package contains D1X binaries and data-files for the shareware version of
    the game.
    
    
    [user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install d1x-shareware
    
    You get the idea :) I'd also recommend the entire kdegames package, especially Konquest which I find to be unreasonably engrossing. Then again, though, I'm a KDE partisan ;)
     
    Phil_Urich, Oct 18, 2008
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    sincitylife

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    Location:
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    :mrgreen: I play:
    Nexuiz
    Armagetron
    Jin(FICS compatible)

    :roll: I'm really amazed how well my AA110 can handle 'em!
     
    sincitylife, Oct 20, 2008
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    Torus trooper is also pretty neat....
     
    Lenoig, Oct 21, 2008
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    Battle for Wesnoth is really good.
    I also have Gridwars 2 on my desktop ubuntu installed, would like to try this if there was a rpm available any ideas?
     
    Rustybolts, Nov 2, 2008
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    I think that linux noobs deserve a better reply than this...

    :D

    They were heroic enough to change their habits to the linuxworld.

    PS Well Aspire One is not exactly the linuxworld but it's a start at least.
     
    sulimo, Nov 5, 2008
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    Were you refering to any one in particular ? Or were you meaning that your post was particularly unhelpful? Or maybe all preceding posts have missed the point of the original topic :?:
     
    Rustybolts, Nov 5, 2008
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