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markbowen
12-02-2002, 08:26 AM
Hi Gamers

I was wondering where I could get good free games from on the web to run on Mandrake 9.0? I really do not want to use Wine as I am terrible at setting it up.

Thanks for the Help

Mark
TCaptain70
12-02-2002, 03:14 PM
Freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net) is pretty good for all kinds of linux software, and I find a lot of my OSS games on there.

And linuxgames (http://www.linuxgames.com) is kind of obvious no?

Those 2 links should be enough to get you started, beyond that remember the golden rule...Google is your friend.
markbowen
12-02-2002, 08:18 PM
Hi

Cheers for that info and I will have to use the "Google" a lot more eh??? lol

Thanks

Mark
Hitokiri_X
12-02-2002, 10:11 PM
Linux Game Tome (http://www.happypenguin.org/news)
Icarus
12-02-2002, 10:43 PM
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ - Star Control 2. open source and runs on Linux :D

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php about everything there is available for Linux (thanks to TheGimp for this one :))

http://www.linux.org/apps/all.html - a few more odds and ends

http://robocoderepository.com/HomePage.jsp - Java script your own battle bot, thanks IBM for this ;)

http://games.swirve.com/ - I've been hooked on Earth2025 for the last 5 years

http://www.linuxgaming.co.uk/ - A nice UK site for Linux games

http://www.the-underdogs.org/ - Abandonware...nestalgia at it's best!

And when using Google for Linux stuff www.google.com/linux

That should be enough to get started :cool:
markbowen
12-03-2002, 04:47 AM
Hi

Wow thanks alot for all that info thats great

Mark
Molecule Man
12-03-2002, 06:11 PM
For easy to use wine,

www.codeweavers.com

www.transgaming.com
Jomboni
12-04-2002, 08:20 PM
www.happypenguin.org
hecresper
12-12-2002, 02:15 PM
lhl.linuxgames.com :D
ALLYOURBASE
12-13-2002, 06:45 PM
i know that tar files are like windows zip files but,
how do you "un tar".
hecresper
12-13-2002, 07:41 PM
Files that end in .tar

tar xvf filename.tar

Files that end in .tar.gz

tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

If you have a bunch of .tar files in one spot and want to untar them all:

for i in ./*.tar
do
tar -xvf $i
done

Enjoy!

www.linuxcommand.org
bwkaz
12-13-2002, 08:03 PM
If they're .tgz files, you can do the same thing -- tar xzvf filename.tgz

If they're .tar.bz2 (which is another compression format that's a bit smaller but a lot slower), you can usually do either tar xjvf filename.tar.bz2 or tar xyvf filename.tar.bz2

And, instead of typing out the entire filename, you can usually type in the first few letters, then hit tab to finish the rest.