-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am not usually without my laptop. Might be nice to have the full disk instead of the partial one I got from an abandonware site. I had a store bought copy at one time, but it seems to have disappeared in one of my moves.
PS the star control 2 port to modern OSs (including linux) can be found here: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php Mitchell Brown wrote: > It's old for FC5! :P > SimCity2k was the best. I have a copy of it actually. It runs wonderful > on XP. > Maybe you could "borrow" it at the next clug meeting ;) > > On 4/18/06, *Gustin Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thats not that old... I think I am gonna cry now. I play Master of > Orion (1 and 2), old skool battlechess (ran nicely on my old 386 > laptop), global conquest (a really good strategy game that is still fun > to play), star control 2 (or the redone Ur Quon Masters, which has > debian sources for native linux gaming goodness, woo-hoo). I also like > Sim City 2000, and a host of fun DOS era games. > > Also, your machine specs may also explain why FC5 is slow, it is geared > towards higher end hardware. > > Mitchell Brown wrote: >> Sweet. Unfortunetly, my only linux box is extremely old. Like, a > pentium >> 3 at 500mhz. very slow for a high-end desktop os! >> Old games. You reminded me of Tie Fighter :-/ > >> On 4/18/06, *Gustin Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > >> I could probably build you a vmware image that you can use with > the free >> vmware player. This is what I use to try out new distros without > wiping >> partitions. This is also where I run various copies of windows, so I >> never have to leave my linux desktop. Of course I paid for vmware >> workstation (great for playing old games on win98 partition as well) >> which is a good investment IMO. > >> Mitchell Brown wrote: >>> Man too bad I didn't think of that before I wiped that partition. It >>> took like, 4hrs to install. >>> Sigh. > >>> PS: Where's the www dir for the http server? And how do you >>> start/stop/restart the http server ?? I tried "apachectl" but it >> wasn't >>> found :( > >>> On 4/18/06, *Ian Bruseker* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>> >> wrote: > >>> On 4/18/06, Mitchell Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>> wrote: >>> > Never thought about that .. I have Google Desktop on my WinXP >>> machine - but >>> > never thought of Beagle :S >>> > Hmm. Maybe that would contribute to the slowism too .. >>> > Why wouldn't they put a built-in index in it so it didn't >> have to >>> do that >>> > searching stuff on a fresh system? >>> > >>> Because they have no idea which of the thousands of software >> packages >>> available on the CD you might choose to install? They can't >> include >>> all of it in the index, or your search would turn up things >> you didn't >>> install, thus they include none. Like I said, it'll go away >> after a >>> while, no biggie. :-) > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> <mailto: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > <http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >>> Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php >> <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php>) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php > <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php>) >> **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFERWwkwRXgH3rKGfMRAvMEAJ44wgXa56e1ZDDE1pHbxl0COUi1ygCfVSz3 VRNHz7BJsu1XCdwICLc2Yl4= =Lxe6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
