First of all the games I mentioned aren't old games.
In the company I work I'm one of the "heads" of our online gaming department.
We have 3 servers (running CentOS Linux) specifically for COD2 players and till
today we were discussing to add another virtual machine since we aren't even
keeping up with the demand.
Games like ET and COD2 have regular updates, and are highly sought after. My
idea with the LAN Party is that - maltese gamers mostly play COD2 and ET.
Foreign players tend to go more towards ET and Counter Strike and Unreal. And
all these run native on Linux.
Games like Doom and to a lesser extent Quake have lost their heat, but it
shouldn't be a problem getting those working.
As for MMORPG I know many people who run WoW and Star Wars Galaxies via WINE,
and EVE-Online has pseudo-native support through Cadega.
The real hard part is getting a linux gaming rig in time for the LAN Fest,
assuming that ITSA executive committe members (not lan admin committe like me,
cause we are more or less helps) don't mind...but I see Mr Marc Tanti is here
so he could guide us :P
In true madness spirit I sacrificed my Solaris Server (which I use at home for
self-learning mostly) and took out the HDD. So, if you want this PC has 4GB
Corsair Dominator RAM, 2.66GHz Quad Core CPU and an ATI HD 25xx something gfx.
If maybe during the lan party we could get a > 160GB hdd we could even do a
demo install of linux and a particular FPS.
We will further this discussion and other ideas at University on Thursday
hopefully, cause I don't want to trash the mailing list (sorry :P )
Shawn> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:08:14 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Calling All Uni Students> >
Problem is...that "showing off" old games really isn't likely to > impress
users, isn't it? Sure, it's a rebuttal to the myth that Linux > cannot play any
games at all, but it still exposes a weakpoint in Linux, > or a lack of quality
- as you prefer ;)> > Still, at least you can still get your gaming fix on
Linux, which is a > good thing. I also suggest Doom 3, Quake 4, Quake 3, maybe
an MMORPG or > too..WoW should also run on wine - never tried it myself
though.> > Shawn Cassar wrote:> > Yep, agree on that, excellent idea.> > > >
Also, it just struck me, the following weekend (21st - 23rd) there is > > the
ITSA Lan Fest. Basically taking the idea of Ubuntu gamers (and > > SuSE gamers
as well :P ) maybe we can ask some of the ITSA committe > > guys (in theory I'm
part of the admin committe) so that we can do a > > linux install fest/linux
gaming during the lan fest.> > > > Would be a great opportunity to actually get
an idea of gamers and > > kind of games they would rather see on *nix systems.
Maybe if we > > could get an average gaming rig (nothing big, even something
with a > > 1.6GHz and a 7200 GFX agp) and put linux on it, install a few games
> > (such as ET, COD2, Unreal which run natively on linux) and "show off" > >
gaming on linux.> > > > I'll try to bring it up during the meeting.> > > >
Shawn> >> >> >
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:03:19 +0100> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:
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>> > Yep that would also be a good possibility, I forgot about that (already).>
>> >> >
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