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The State of Linux Gaming
The State of Linux Gaming
Posted Sep 23, 2004 14:41 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)In reply to: The State of Linux Gaming by dvrabel
Parent article: The State of Linux Gaming
Exactly. People generally don't want "a good first-person shoot-em-up", they want Duke Nukem' (or whatever). It's great that there are good games for Linux, but that's really only relevant for people who have already opted to run Linux. For people considering the switch from Windows to Linux, if they play many games then Linux is a non-starter unless they're willing to dual-boot, which most people likely won't be.
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The State of Linux Gaming
Posted Sep 24, 2004 17:57 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
Oh, but Duke Nukem works on Linux!Just get the latest stable version of DosEmu + FreeDos
(http://www.dosemu.org/) and install DOS Duke Nukem. If you don't mind
game being slow, you might also try DosBox (http://dosbox.sf.net/) which
has better sound support but as it emulates the CPU it's much slower.
I've bought several great budget DOS game titles because of this: GTA 1,
Worms 1, Screamer Rally... (disclaimer: I know both DOS and Linux and
installing things is not a problem for me. Those who want it easiest, can
try DosBox.)
Btw. I've also transferred several great old games from my old Atari ST
(in the closet :-)) to Linux and am using them with the Hatari emulator
(http://hatari.sf.net/). Note that you need an original Atari for the TOS
image because the GPL version of TOS (http://emutos.sf.net/) is not
compatible with most of Atari games (and definately not with any of the
old-skool demos).
The State of Linux Gaming
Posted Oct 4, 2004 12:19 UTC (Mon) by oever (subscriber, #987) [Link]
Or you could download 'Duke Nukem for Linux' (original game required).