I saw in the CVS that WineX is working on getting
Black & White to run. Check out www.transgaming.com
for more details.
--- Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:49, matty mo wrote:
> > are any of the following available for linux? i'm
> > willing to buy them if they are...
> >
> > civilizationII
>
> FreeCiv is a damn awesome game. They started before
> CivII was made,
> aiming to make a CivI clone. This can be seen in the
> design, with many
> elements taken from both CivII (e.g. advances &
> units) and CivI (e.g.
> non-isometric view). It's great to play online or
> over a network. The
> main thing I miss about it, however, is its lack of
> support for
> diplomacy (which pretty-much means you're at war all
> the time with the
> computer). It's clear that the developers have
> focussed on
> multi-player support, unlike CivI and CivII which
> are single-player
> games.
>
> Call to Power is also available for Linux. Many
> on-line stores sell it.
>
> > simcity3000
>
> Try this: http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html.
> It's nowhere near
> as good as SimCity 3000, but it isn't bad for a GPL
> clone.
>
> > dreamweaver
>
> There are several WYSIWYG HTML editors out there.
> Besides Netscape
> Composer (which doesn't even hold a candle to
> Dreamweaver), there is
> IBM WebSphere HomePage Builder
>
(http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux/index.html)
>
> and Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). WebSphere
> HomePage Builder is a
> port from the Windos version, and quite a good
> programme. Just be
> wary: it *doesn't* work with XFree 4.x, only 3.x. I
> only found that in
> a readme file after it had trashed my font server a
> few times. IBM
> should've been more clear about this. Amaya isn't a
> very pretty app,
> but it is designed by the W3C, which means it is
> 100% HTML
> standards-compliant. Probably the best thing you can
> do is to use a
> combination of these programmes, using each for its
> strengths. For raw
> coding, Quanta+ and SCREEM (both included in
> Mandrake 8.0) are great.
>
> > photoshop6
>
> Many professional designers swear by The GIMP,
> saying it is even
> better than Photoshop. This is a classic GPL success
> story, and its
> toolkit (GTK) forms the basis for many X
> applications, including GNOME.
>
> > black and white
>
> This game is fairly new, so you may have to wait a
> while before
> someone makes a Linux port/clone of it.
>
> > matt
>
> Also, don't forget WINE, VMware and Win4Lin. I
> haven't had much
> success with WINE yet, but I play some games (I
> *love* Risk II!!!) in
> VMware. YMMV.
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from
> Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a
> coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
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