[dundee] WINE, Cedega, & The Gamers

[Lee Turner]

I have an xbox that'll run Linux (currently gentoo based) I'd be willing to
loan that to a stand - may draw a few lookers :)

On 01/04/07, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:37:49 +0800, Nistur Effee wrote:
>
> > I agree, different machines running a variety of programs is
> > important. However we need to make it interesting. I currently have a
> > selection of emulators running on my laptop and PC along with an XBox
> > controller and modified cable (usb attachment) that runs on virtually
> > all of them. Add to this Cedega and a couple of games and you have a
> > decent games section. I'm not saying all students are gamers. But
> > thinking about people I know who don't use linux, a lot of them are
> > very attached to their games. If we could show that a lot of games
> > are playable (any WoWers care to demo their skills there?) as well as
> > there being programs to cater to virtually every need ("virtually"
> > only put in because someone is likely to say that they have the need
> > to launch nukes with a single button press or something) I think that
> > it may be a success. I am not sure whether I agree that new users are
> > necessarily better to draw in yet more new users though. I think
> > there should be a variety, new users to give the cheesey success
> > stories and more experienced users in case there are already people
> > who are very comfortable with windoze/Mac OSs but just not switched.
>
> We should also not ignore the many and varied native Linux
> games available. Freedoom, Quake III Arena, Frozen Bubble, ppracer,
> GLTron, GL 117, Chromium, and Super Tux are but a few I have installed.
>
> > Again, only my view, it's up to the society to make up their mind
> > what they want
>
> Perhaps the *new* people should peruse the mailing list archives and
> the LUG web site to see what we got up to in the past.
>
>
> Andrew
>
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