On 4/18/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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. :-)
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