Re: offtopic (completely): linux games
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
To: "Debian user mailing list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 4:24 AM
Subject: offtopic (completely): linux games
>dear all,
>
>i know i'll get flamed for this, but i also happen to know that some of you
>will greatly appreciate this information:
>
>if you ever wanted to get quake III but didn't want to spend the
(admittedly
>hefty) price of $50 or $60, now is your chance to purchase it:
>
> quake 3 arena: 9.99
> descent 3: 9.99
> myth 2: 9.99
> heretic 2: 9.99
> heavy gear 2: 9.99
> soldier of fortune: 9.99
> railroad tycoon 2: 9.99
> eric's solitaire: 9.99
>
>http://www.ebgames.com/ search on "linux"
>
>these are INCREDIBLE prices. if loki sales get good enough, maybe some day
>we'll get diablo or (native) halflife for linux. :-)
>
>sorry, but people like me who refuse to run a dual-boot computer (refuse to
>fork over $$$ to the evil empire) rely on loki software for recreation. :)
>
>pete
I know people who've had good success in getting several recent release
windows games (such as "Oni") to work in wine - apparently many OpenGL games
work at full (or close to full) speed with Xfree4 and DRI.
- Kevin.
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