Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2333 mails)

[Joe Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Haller wrote:

> Quake 3 "old favourite"? Move along, grasshopper.
>
> -dnh, himself not qualifying as an old fart, but "old favourites" are
>  Lemmings, Monkey Island, Paradroid90, Civilization II (*),
> Descent... And if Descent isn't 3d, what is?  Oh, and _my_ preferred
> Video Chip (on which I played all above mentioned games) is a MGA
> 1064SG w/ 4 MB SGRAM on a Mystique. Rock solid, not even a heatsink,
> and crisply displaying pixels on my main working machine for about 12
>  years now, with 2 summers of room-temps over 40 °C (104 °F). *exits
> stage left, sniggering*
>
> *) and the Linux-ported descendants "Civ - Call to Power" and "Alpha
> Centauri"

All right, you've got me there old man... But, as it turns out, doom 
(does anybody remember 1994?) was the oldest of the old favorites that 
whetted my appetite for competitive FPS gaming. Once doom and netscape 
were available for linux c. 1995, I nuked all microsoft partitions and 
gave the reclaimed disk space to linux.

I did have a pentium 90 running slackware that worked flawlessly 24/7 as 
the internet gateway for our household for a couple years, even through 
a summer without air conditioning - but I concede the ground to you on 
the basis of your 12 year old machine.

Joe

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