(This looks like a continuation of your previous post) Chris Ross wrote:
> So yes, you can play your old 1999 games if you keep an old 1999 Linux > around to play them on. I do understand that if I were to install and > maintain several parallel out-of-distribution old versions of glibc I > could possibly get them to work, Nope, bog standard suse 10.3 here. > but that's no substitute for the > Windows experience of picking up a "buy 3 for £10" old PC games offer in > the high street and just putting the disc in the computer. It's really > my 11 year old who'd most like to play computer games and the latter he > can cope with, the former, of course not. There are more games available for 'bloze, no argument there. > > Even the new Linux Quake 4 demo doesn't run on OpenSuSE 10.2 because the > sound is all broken and horrible, let alone old bargain basement Windows > games. I fixed Q4 sound after a bit of googling, blue skies. I just don't like the game that much - ut2004 is more enjoyable IMHO. As for bargain basement windoze games, I couldn't say. I'd be more likely to try bargain basement linux games. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
