Tim Sullivan wrote: > Does anyone know where i can find or if its possible to run windows > games on Linux. I was wanting to try some of my older games on my Linux > laptop. I was wanting to play Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, and Half-life. My > laptop is a 1.7gh p4 with 512mb ram and a 32mb ATI video card so i know > the hardware will support it. I just really don't know how to get it to > work on Linux. If you know of a website i could go to that would show me > how i would appreciate it.
I don't know about Half-life, but I know that all of the Quakes have a native Linux port. As a matter of fact, the source to Quake I and Quake II were both released under the GPL. Some links that might help: http://www.quakeforge.net/ http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO.html Hope this helps, Kevin
