Hi Petr, No problem. Glad I could be of some help. As it happens the topic of Linux gaming is a subject I am very personally interested in myself since I primarily use Linux for day to day computer work/play. I don't venture into Windows except when I really have to to write some Windows specific piece of software or to play an accessible game that I like. As a result I've made it my personal quest to find and create accessible games for Linux. As it so happens there are definitely games out there we can play. Unfortunately, many VI gamers would see it as taking a big step backwards because text adventures and muds make up the large majority of accessible games on Linux right now. There are also the odd console game like Hangman that are accessible to if you have the BSD games package installed. However, with APIs like SFML 1.6, which has bindings to OpenGL and OpenAL, it is certainly possible to create games equal to Tank Commander, Shades of Doom, Sarah, and all the other great accessible games for Windows. That's why when I get an opertunity to I have plans to use SFML for my Open G3D engine for Linux. I think Linux has gotten to the point where the game APIs are certainly equal to Windows and a developer could quite easily begin producing high-quality accessible games for Linux using C, C++, or Python.
Cheers! On 8/28/10, Petr Bláha <hammet...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > i was hoping that specially you will answer my question, so thanks very > much for your answers and all the information you gave to me. > And i i am very looking forward to stfc under the linux, cause this > game i play the most often nowadays - smiles. > Tomb hunter will be also very nice if it would be under this OS. > By the way - can you give me any instant messaging contact to you - i > mean skype or ICQ or facebook - maybee we can discull some other topics > about the linux and you can give me some more information important for > me as the linux beginner. Off course only if you are not too busy. > My address is hammet...@seznam.cz, there you can send me some contact > information if you decide to do that. > Bye for now and once again, thanks very much for your help. > > On 28.8.2010 06:26, Thomas Ward wrote: >> Hi Petr, >> Yes, there are some accessible games for Linux. If you are in to text >> adventures there is a free frotz interpretor called, frotz, that will >> allow you to play a number of ZCode games like the old Infocom games >> under Linux. There is also an accessible Adrift Runner called Scare >> that will allow you to play a number of Adrift text adventures as >> well. If you are into muds there is an accessible mud client, >> gnome-mud, that will allow you to play all the usual muds everyone >> talks about on the list. >> If you are looking for something more serious try FreeCiv. I've found >> it mostly accessible and works fairly well with Orca so far. FreeCiv >> is basically an accessible free clone of the old game Civilization. >> SoundRTS can be played on Linux too, but configuring it is a pain >> because it requires a number of older Python and PyGame packages that >> conflicts with the native Python packages that ship with Ubuntu, >> Vinux, and Debian, etc these days. So SoundRTS is problematic. >> In addition I am also working on Linux ports of STFC, MOTA, etc but >> those are far behind the Windows releases as these ports are primarily >> created for myself, but sooner or later once the Linux ports catch up >> with the >> Windows releases I'll be adding them to my products page as well. I've >> also got a number of text games I wrote a few years ago such as >> Blackjack, Yatzi, Uno, etc that were created for Linux and I >> eventually want to upgrade them and put them up for download as well. >> So Linux gaming is not only possible I have plans to add to what is >> out there fore Linux personally. >> As for using Wine to play Windows games forget it. It doesn't have all >> the dependencies you need and you pretty much have to install and >> register several dlls to get something like one of GMA's games to >> play. Even then the games are not stable, will crash, or run >> sluggishly. I did it one time with Shades of Doom, and setting Wine up >> to do it was a frickin' nightmare, and the end result sucked. So I >> don't consider Wine an option for a Linux gamer. >> >> Cheers! >> >> On 8/27/10, Petr Bláha<hammet...@seznam.cz> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> i would like to ask you, if there are any accessible games, which are >>> playable under the linux operation system. >>> I use linux more and more, so entertainment is one part of my computer >>> using, which i would like to try in linux as well. >>> I have got an idea that games which are equipped by self voicing could be >>> played under the wine - windows emulation programm, but i don >>> t know if this is possible. 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