Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Broadhead
red wrote: > Is there any Linux gamers out there? There is quite a list here too . -- Paul Broadhead -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread taufanlubis
> 2009/3/17 red > > Hi > > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > > My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any > good games? > > Rik > > -- Try this link, my games collection in Ubuntu. http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Wears wrote: > I'm a Linux gamer. There arn't many native games available (I think Unreal > Tournament 2004 has a Linux install...), but you can play Windows games > through either WINE, or CrossOver Games. I use CrossOver, and it work's > great

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Bagnall
red wrote: > Hi > > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > > My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? > > Rik > > I'm a linux gamer where possible, although I still have a windows partition around and, depending on which games you wish to play, I would suggest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Scrase, Eddie
Rik, I think that the main problem for gamers coming to Linux is that there isn't any 'big name' games available, unless you want to try using Wine/Crossover. However, there are games for Linux if you are prepared look. I bookmarked the following articles some time ago that might be of interest:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/3/17 red : > Hi > > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > > My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? > armagetron and bzflag are two simple but fun networked games. Also, I quite enjoy flightgear. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Tim Dobson
I used to hang out on openarena. Now days I do things like sleep, but if you you like that kind of game its there. Both my parents are horrifically addicted to ksirtet (tetris). There's a old, but good review that made slashdot of the best Free Software games... go look it up. :) Tim red wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Harry Rickards
On 17 Mar 2009, at 01:00, red wrote: > Hi > > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > > My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? > > Rik > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-17 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/17 red : > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > > My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=list+of+linux+games There's a fair few lists of games online. Personally I've played Warsow (which is in the repository), Darwi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-16 Thread Simon Wears
I'm a Linux gamer. There arn't many native games available (I think Unreal Tournament 2004 has a Linux install...), but you can play Windows games through either WINE, or CrossOver Games. I use CrossOver, and it work's great for me. 2009/3/17 red > Hi > > Is there any Linux gamers out there? > >

[ubuntu-uk] Games

2009-03-16 Thread red
Hi Is there any Linux gamers out there? My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? Rik -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-12 Thread Rob Beard
Dianne Reuby wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:32 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> Dianne Reuby wrote: >>> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:33 +, Tony Arnold wrote: There seems to be at least two places that thus could be: http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-12 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:32 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dianne Reuby wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:33 +, Tony Arnold wrote: > >> There seems to be at least two places that thus could be: > >> > >> http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University of Bath, > >> Swindon.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-11 Thread Ian Pascoe
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Travis Sent: 11 November 2007 10:56 To: Daniel Lamb; British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme Daniel Lamb wrote: > For lemmings clone there is pingus, which works very well not tested it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-11 Thread Tony Travis
Daniel Lamb wrote: > For lemmings clone there is pingus, which works very well not tested it on > ubuntu just another os :-(. Hello, Daniel. Thanks! - Just tried it under 6.06.1 LTS + it is brilliant! Best wishes, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-11 Thread Rob Beard
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:08 +, Rob Beard wrote: >> What would make my evening complete though is finding a Linux version of >> Workbench Lemmings (which was a small app for the Amiga which made >> Lemmings walk down windows on the Amiga Workbench Desktop). >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Lamb
For lemmings clone there is pingus, which works very well not tested it on ubuntu just another os :-(. Daniel - original message - Subject:Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme From: Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/11/2007 00:07 Adam Bagnall wrote: &g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Rob, On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:08 +, Rob Beard wrote: > What would make my evening complete though is finding a Linux version of > Workbench Lemmings (which was a small app for the Amiga which made > Lemmings walk down windows on the Amiga Workbench Desktop). > xpenguins is what you ar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Rob Beard
Adam Bagnall wrote: > Dianne Reuby wrote: >> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - >> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, >> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off >> Ubuntu both to our visitors an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Rob Beard
Tony Arnold wrote: > Rob, > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Where is this Museum of Computing? Sounds like heaven if it's got loads >> of computers and consoles. > > There seems to be at least two places that thus could be: > > http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University of Bath, Swindon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Adam Bagnall
Dianne Reuby wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off > Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Tony Arnold
Rob, Rob Beard wrote: > Where is this Museum of Computing? Sounds like heaven if it's got loads > of computers and consoles. There seems to be at least two places that thus could be: http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University of Bath, Swindon. or http://www.tnmoc.co.uk/ which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 10, 2007 10:29 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: > > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > > handhelds and Windows.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off > Ubuntu both to our v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread gord
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off > Ubuntu both to our v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Rob Beard
Dianne Reuby wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off > Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 10, 2007 9:41 PM, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off > Ubuntu both

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Kirrus
- "Dianne Reuby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing > - > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for > consoles, > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show > off > Ubuntu both to our vi

[ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Dianne Reuby
We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers. Can anyone recommend any L