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a slight problem :(
rtgwbmsr:
quote:Originally posted by smokey mcp0t / b0b:
Windows (at the moment) is really PISSING me off. Explorer.exe crashes at least 20 times a day and the computer (after 5 days) needs a complete restart because my sound is fnarked and the system is really unstable.
I am currently looking at RedHat 8.0 as a good distro of linux to try out but I have one slight problem - games. Westwood being the unskilled company they are provide no support for linux. I don't really like dual booting because I like to spontaneously play maybe one game of something and then return to work.
I can't shell out any more money and I would really like to dump windows.
Any advice on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
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Red Alert and Red Altert 2 work fairly well in WineX. A full list of games (the ones with 4s and 5s are good and entirely playable)
http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?order=working&showall=1
rtgwbmsr:
quote:Originally posted by smokey mcp0t / b0b:
Windows (at the moment) is really PISSING me off. Explorer.exe crashes at least 20 times a day and the computer (after 5 days) needs a complete restart because my sound is fnarked and the system is really unstable.
I am currently looking at RedHat 8.0 as a good distro of linux to try out but I have one slight problem - games. Westwood being the unskilled company they are provide no support for linux. I don't really like dual booting because I like to spontaneously play maybe one game of something and then return to work.
I can't shell out any more money and I would really like to dump windows.
Any advice on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
--- End quote ---
Red Alert and Red Altert 2 work fairly well in WineX. A full list of games (the ones with 4s and 5s are good and entirely playable)
http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?order=working&showall=1
Deus Ex and Anachronox crash less in WineX than in Windows.
dishawjp:
I have to admit that I am a gamer, and computer games are what got me to see computers as something I enjoyed rather than just worked with. I still have a couple of DOS computers that I don't use for much other than gaming and one Windows computer that still occasionally gets booted for gaming. One fairly current game I like is "Cossacks Art of War" and it can't be played on Linux at all that I know of. But last week I was on vacation. I think I booted my Win98 box once the whole week, and that was to play a bit of Cossacks. I have my two of my DOS computers null- modemed together and a buddy of mine stopped over. We had played some WarCraft 2 and some Red Alert on them. But I must have spent at least 15 hrs. on my Linux box. Maybe more.
You might want to check out some of the following sites for Linux games. You won't find every game but probably some that interest you. And it doesn't hurt to keep a Windows box kicking around for the occasions you may actually need or want to use it.
http://www.linuxgames.com
http://www.happypenguin.org
http://www.tuxgames.com
Also, look up Tux Racer. It looks like it might be fun... if it's your style. And if you like the Civ. games, I understand that Free Civ comes with RH 8.
You don't have to give up gaming to take up Linux.
Jim
rtgwbmsr:
Tux racer is awesome!
Possibly the best game native to Linux next to Frozen Bubble. Who needs to shoot people all day?
smokey:
Thank you all for all of the positive replies . I like the sound of WineX but the $15us is a slight problem - that is $27au which I don't have and I also have no way of getting the money into the US. Being 15 has its ups and downs and unfortunately for me this is not very good. I do have a possibility - I can recompile the source code and I also have access to windows machines for files it might need.
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