Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3340 mails)

[Joe Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(This looks like a continuation of your previous post)

Chris Ross wrote:

> So yes, you can play your old 1999 games if you keep an old 1999 Linux
> around to play them on. I do understand that if I were to install and
> maintain several parallel out-of-distribution old versions of glibc I
> could possibly get them to work, 

Nope, bog standard suse 10.3 here.

> but that's no substitute for the
> Windows experience of picking up a "buy 3 for £10" old PC games offer in
> the high street and just putting the disc in the computer. It's really
> my 11 year old who'd most like to play computer games and the latter he
> can cope with, the former, of course not.

There are more games available for 'bloze, no argument there.

> Even the new Linux Quake 4 demo doesn't run on OpenSuSE 10.2 because the
> sound is all broken and horrible, let alone old bargain basement Windows
> games.

I fixed Q4 sound after a bit of googling, blue skies. I just don't like
the game that much - ut2004 is more enjoyable IMHO.

As for bargain basement windoze games, I couldn't say. I'd be more
likely to try bargain basement linux games.

Joe
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