Forgive my mistake then. I don't play multi much -- except for Quake 3 :D Shawn Cassar wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:03:19 +0100 > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Calling All Uni Students > > > > > > Yep that would also be a good possibility, I forgot about that > (already). > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live > > > Spaces. It's easy! Try it! > > > > <http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MLUG-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live > Spaces. It's easy! Try it! > <http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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