Darkelve

Iphitus, you are 'in' what? After thinking about this for a while, I stand corrected by AI: the only way to get games come to Linux is to buy them! :deal: BTW I am downloading the "Dominions 2" demo right now! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll help :P although it seems you've given up already lol <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, at first I thought it was a good idea. But: there is so little intrest in these games and if we play these free old(er) games, this way no money will flow to the Linux gaming community. So I'm afraid my idea would slow down, rather than accellerate the coming of modern games to Linux. It's simple really, all we have to do is buy Linux versions of popular games. And I hate saying this, but it is probably even better if it is a game from a very rich and popular game company, because they set the trends. Although all Linux sales are a boon. I still think the idea was okay, only it will probably not obtain the results I wanted to reach... :lol:

Thank you, but I'd like the graphics to be at least a *little* better... DominionsII graphics were nice I think, music was very good also. Do you know of any 'Classic' Adventure Games for Linux (except Hopkins FBI?)

Iphitus, you are 'in' what? After thinking about this for a while, I stand corrected by AI: the only way to get games come to Linux is to buy them! :deal: BTW I am downloading the "Dominions 2" demo right now!

Thanks, AI! :)

Some people on the SuSe forums, after playing Beneath a Steel Sky and/or Flight of the Amazon Queen (included in the box, works with ScummVM) have already asked if there were other games like that for Linux. Answer is: No. So there are people interested. Games can also be not popular because they are not promoted enough or because the market moves on, or... does not mean they are less fun. I *love* discworld I, it is very fun to play, despite its not so good graphics. And some games are probably quite easy to get to work, if only someone sets his mind to it. The bounty is the incentive for doing that. Also, there are people in less developed parts in the world that program quite well and were e.g. $100 could be the wage of half a month... (well, it would be worth a LOT). I know that Gnome uses a bounty system for some things as well and it works quite well. Of course this would be a transitional phase until the gaming corps 'catch up'.

Devries, this is about Abandonware... generally that means games old enough (or not profitable anymore) to have been released into the public domain. That does not necessarily mean crappy graphics... E.g. discworld Noir has great graphics. So any person can download and play it if they want. Now the missing step is someone getting it to work on Linux. Which is where the bounty system comes in, to get someone to make it work with Wine.

It has been stated that one of the greatest barriers to lx adoption is the shortage of quality, full-featured and professional vg. But while we wait for this to change (or contribute toward this goal), there is a gap to be filled. I propose the following simple, effective and legal way of immediately filling this gap, making use of the following components: - wine, which is available for free on all Linux distro's and under an acceptable license - abandonware, which is plentiful, available for free and unencumbered by licenses or market forces (at least, I presume it is). Also a lot of good games lie unplayed and forgotten. Why not make use of this situation? Also, most older games do not have the 'problem' of DirectX - bounties, which give programmers an incentive on working on the titles. You probably already have seen coming what I am hinting at, but if not, here is the process I propose: 1. Look for interesting Abandonware titles on Abandonware sites (e.g. Home of the Underdogs has a HUGE collection, with complete information including licensing information) 2. (Optional) Create a longlist of games and have people vote on them 3. Ask people with Wine experience on the feasablity and the difficulty of making the game work 4. Create a shortlist of games to be worked on 5. Set a bounty for each of the games, depending on their difficulty rating. 6. Programmer starts trying to make the game work. Useful contributions are added to the main Wine project 7. Package the game with the proper wine version and/or settings 8. Ask distros to include the games or offer them on a website for download, with instructions Repeat process for other games For example, a few interesting games: - The 3 "discworld" games - Betrayal at Krondor Edit: oh yeah, and in order to gain some more visibility, have a sort of download counter in order to be able to measure popularity and show it to the gaming companies. So, what do you think? Could this work?

I already signed it. Next presidency: 2005-2006: Luxemburgh (?) 2006-2007: England ( ) It could still mean the proposal comes on the agenda next time though, depending on what Luxemburgh decided.

You can use the program called Ksnapshot

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us, Aaack!

Maybe some politicians suddenly got a wake-up call (or e-mail) from their citizens.

darkelve raises an important point - if anyone has problems, report back to this thread. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I mean I appreciate it that when you found the solution you took the time to post it (see my new stickie at the top of the forum). Edit: I mean Hardware Forum, I see it has been moved now? Or maybe I was just confused from teh start ... :blink: Edit 2: seems I was confused, it was always in Laptops&Portable thingies...

Thanks a lot, kde-head! (for your explanation and taking the time to report back, I mean) ;)

I think you mean masochistic... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadism_and_masochism :ph34r:

Here is an article explaining more in full what is happening: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041220053953243 So if you oppose the directive, please contact your MEPs.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

It's okay, I was just crankin' yer chain. I do like the windeco, however.

I like the top one! Can you make one for KDE? ;)

I think that, from the menu in the toolbar, you can just pick " Settings ->Save Display Profile 'File Managemen' " or something similar (my menu is in Dutch, sorry).

For more information see http://www.winehq.com/ From the homepage:

Wellcome Drake! IMO, a lot of your games could already work in Wine. You might want to check that out. Of course, native stuff is always better. If you mean Mandrake 9.0 with Mandrake 9, then you will see Mdk10.1 has improved by leaps and bounds. Anyway, welcome. I hope you will enjoy it here.

Got this post from the SuseLinuxSupportforums. Credit goes to andrewd18 http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...t=0entry53187

You can just keep posting here, since your problem does not seem completely solved yet. You can start a new one if you really want to though. Either is fine with me. Don't worry about the duplicate post. Just remember for next time :)

I've got a Geforce MX440, I use it with SuSe (9.1) and someone on the nVidia forums advised me to set NvAGP to 0 or 2. I set mine to 0 (zero). After that 3D didn't crash any longer for me.

It's not a problem but I think 1 post is cleaner. Do not know about the 1st question, but perhaps you have to change your permissions for the second question?