(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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org