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    Post Linux Gaming links

    Here's a collection of links to Linux Gaming sites with brief descriptions, if you know or have any to add please send me or bwkaz a PM and let us know what was missed

    http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
    Icculus' long list of Linux games, free/commercial

    http://happypenguin.org/
    The Linux Game Tome - News and reviews

    www.icculus.org
    Makes native ports of open sourced games

    www.lokigames.com
    Makes retail ports of games for Linux (out-of-business)

    www.castlewolfenstein.com
    Native Linux port of RtCW

    www.unrealtournament.com
    Native Linux port for UT and UT2003

    www.idsoftware.com
    (quake 3 and RTCW native ports)

    www.tuxgames.com
    (buy linux games here)

    http://www.linuxgaminghelp.co.uk/
    European site dedicated to Linux game news and downloads

    http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
    Long list of native Linux games with links

    http://www.linuxgaming.jolt.co.uk/

    http://www.linuxgames.com/
    Linux gaming news site

    http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/
    GameSpy like browser for online games for Linux

    http://x.mame.net/
    Linux port of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

    http://legacy.newdoom.com/
    Port for Doom and Doom II with additional features

    http://pingus.seul.org/
    Lemmings type of game using penguins

    http://games.swirve.com/
    Online turn based games

    http://www.transgaming.com/
    Maker of WineX, a version of Wine that targets DirectX games

    http://www.the-underdogs.org/
    Site for abandonware/freeware games, mostly DOS (see DOSemu)

    http://dosemu.org/
    DOSemu and DOS emulator for Linux

    http://scorch2000.com/
    Java based online playable version of Scorched Earth

    http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html
    A Java based cross-platform AI programming battle bot game

    http://robocoderepository.com/HomePage.jsp
    A resource site for Robocode

    http://www.linux-games.com

    http://www.cosmicencounter.com
    Online version of the original Cosmic Encounter board game (requires Flash)

    http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
    Linux/Win32 port of Star Control 2

    http://server.counter-strike.net/
    Resource site for Counter-Strike (Half-Life) servers

    http://umodpack.sourceforge.net/
    umod installer for Unreal Tournament in Linux

    http://www.unrealtower.org/fom-serve/cache/80.html
    Unreal Tournament 2003 cache manager

    http://openut.sourceforge.net/

    http://moddb.com/
    Large collection of game mods for many games

    http://www.linuxresource.com/Games/index.php
    A pluthera of links to individual linux games

    http://www.hopkinsfbi.com
    great point-and-click game, lots of blood

    http://www.scummvm.org
    Play Monkey Island under Linux - woohoo!

    http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/
    Great 'Hacking-in-the-Future' game

    http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
    3D Version of Scorched Earth

    http://nwnlinux.project404.org/downloads.php
    Neverwinter Nights Linux Guild

    http://www.linuxquake.com/
    Lots of usefull information for running Quake Quake2 and Quake3 on Linux

    http://www.flightgear.org/
    Open source flight simulator

    http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1616
    Download for the America's Army 1.90 Linux Port

    http://www.americasarmy.com
    America's Army is available for Linux and Macs also

    http://www.blackbagops.com/files/howto-linux.txt
    How To Setup A Linux Server With BFSMD

    http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/index.html
    Linux Game Development Center - News and Game Development

    http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/
    GenRB Project: Infinity Engine Emulator - The Infinity Engine is the Game Engine developed by BioWare Inc. used in games like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment.

    http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
    Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake

    http://icculus.org/~ravage/
    Linux Game Installers by Shane Bayer

    http://www.linuxgamingplanet.com/
    Game news and hardware review for Linux

    http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
    DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS

    http://liflg.org/
    Loki Installers for Native Linux Games and Wine installs

    http://priv.solsector.net/
    Wing Commander Privateer Remake based off the Vegastrike engine

    http://www.libsdl.org/games.php?ord...me=&perpage=all
    A large collection of SDL based games

    http://puzzlepirates.com
    Multiplayer puzzle games with a pirate theme, Arr!
    Last edited by Icarus; 08-12-2005 at 10:30 AM. Reason: update

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    Wow
    Good job, thanks

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    wow....that's quite a list....I'm gonna have to bookmark this one. Thanks for compiling it.

    -Charles

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    http://www.targetware.net
    Multiplayer online flight/combat simulator.

    My favorite game for any platform (works on OSX and windoze too).
    ladoga

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    Could I download any of these games to a DVD or CD an put them on my daughters computer running windows xp? She likes the games I have on my lispire os computer. James
    A very new user

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    Yes, if and only if there's a Windows port. Look on each game's download page to find out.

    Or just use a Linux livecd to run these games...

    Windows cannot run Linux binaries, just like Linux cannot (directly) run Windows binaries. There is a compatibility layer for Linux to run Windows binaries (wine), but it isn't complete, and there's nothing similar that I know of for running Linux programs on Windows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bwkaz
    Windows cannot run Linux binaries, just like Linux cannot (directly) run Windows binaries. There is a compatibility layer for Linux to run Windows binaries (wine), but it isn't complete, and there's nothing similar that I know of for running Linux programs on Windows.
    Haven't heard of cygwin?
    And last I heard, as qt4 is available for windows, we might even be able to run KDE on windows, along with X11. Reason to do that: unknown

    Anyway, great list! but icculus.org appeared thrice... Thats funny.
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    Quote Originally Posted by XiaoKJ
    Haven't heard of cygwin?
    Won't help. From their site:

    What Isn't Cygwin?
    • Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.
    Wine, on the other hand, will let you run (some) native Windows apps on Linux, without a recompile. There is nothing that I know of that will load a binary file compiled for Linux, into memory on a Windows box and let it run. Including Cygwin.

    And last I heard, as qt4 is available for windows,
    Doesn't help. All Qt-using Linux programs will still have to be recompiled with a compiler targeting Windows (either cygwin's Windows-native gcc, or mingw's cross-gcc that runs on Linux but compiles Windows binaries). The Windows Qt port is a set of DLLs, while Linux binaries will be looking for .so files. (There's a huge set of other problems too, though.)

    And of course a recompile is not all that's required -- you also need to either run it under Cygwin (which means you need to use Cygwin's compiler), or you need to change the program (and all libraries!) so that they don't use Unix-style paths. You will also need to fix issues stemming from Linux's case sensitivity in file and path names (files and paths are not case-sensitive on Windows). (Actually I'm not even sure Cygwin fixes that last one...)

    we might even be able to run KDE on windows, along with X11. Reason to do that: unknown
    Cygwin has its own X server, which is useful if you have a putty session forwarding your X connection to a Linux box. But it's really, really slow over anything but a LAN.

    And KDE very likely won't work properly. Kioslaves, for one, are going to be very problematic on Windows.

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    Tremulous - 100% GPL FPS game, based on the (recently GPLd) Quake3 engine.
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    thanks mrBen, I'll be checking that out when I get home tonight. I've been looking for another FPS since Americas Army dropped support for Linux and Mac.
    Check out my ebay auction for my signature space on JLC.

    Hey if people can sell advertising space on thier bodies, I figure I can make $.02 on my signature space.

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    I have Mr Ben to blame for getting me into Tremulous... (was a Quake 3 mod but now stand alone)

    I have to go through this list and weed out the dead links and add new ones...

    JamminJoeyB, ya but the amazing thing is that Linux and Mac support for America's Army was dropped a while ago but Ryan wouldn't let it die and started making the ports for free (he didn't get paid to do it). I always keep an eye on what Ryan is working on, expecially since he's got a lot of input with the ut2007 engine
    http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/fi...l?user=icculus
    Although lately he's been more focused with Mac projects...
    Last edited by Icarus; 06-05-2006 at 09:57 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Icarus
    JamminJoeyB, ya but the amazing thing is that Linux and Mac support for America's Army was dropped a while ago but Ryan wouldn't let it die and started making the ports for free (he didn't get paid to do it). I always keep an eye on what Ryan is working on, expecially since he's got a lot of input with the ut2007 engine
    http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/fi...l?user=icculus
    Although lately he's been more focused with Mac projects...
    Maybe we could get him interested in PS3 stuff too!

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    http://www.runescape.com

    my fav online game to date

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    Well, I finally got all that FlightGear nonsense up and running on my x86_64 cross-lfs box. Talk about a pain... But man if this flight sim isn't complete. I known next to nothing about airplanes, so I can barely stay in the sky.


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    Quote Originally Posted by chibois
    Thats not specific to any OS, you just need java installed...
    I remember playing sauerbraten and tremulous back when i had windows...
    Im going to install them again.
    - Ryan "Boxxertrumps" Trumpa

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