When Sony first announced that the PlayStation 3 would be able to run Linux natively, a great deal of excitement ensued. Early on, it was a bit of a challenge to get Linux natively installed. The supported installer ran [...]
Gaming: Valve’s Source Engine Coming To Linux
There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform. Valve Software has yet to officially announce Linux clients for any of its [...]
Wine/Cedega/Crossover Games: Windows Gaming on Linux
In his latest video, Shawn Powers (from the Linux Journal’s redaction) explains us briefly what are some possible ways to play your Windows games on Linux.
Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
http://www.winehq.org
Wine Doors
http://www.wine-doors.org
Wine Doors is an open source Linux application designed to help
install a wide variety of Windows software using Wine. While it
didn’t always work [...]
Wine Gaming: Call Of Duty 4 (COD4)
Modern Warfare’s single player campaign unfolds, the player is introduced to new gameplay at every turn – one moment you are fast-roping from your Black Hawk helicopter after storming into the war zone with an armada of choppers, the next you are a sniper, under concealment, in a Ghillie suit miles behind enemy lines, the [...]
Gaming: Wormux
If you have always liked playing a Worms on your PC or mobile, then you gonna like Wormux. Even if you weren’t much of a fan of the original Works series, you’ll find Wormux none the less captivating and enjoyable, and even addictive in some respects.
Wormux makes a formidable clone of the original series. It [...]
Gaming: Flightgear 1.0.0 Released
After more than 11 years of development, Flightgear 1.0 has arrived.
Flightgear can be played on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, as well as other *nix platforms including FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. Distributed under the GPL, Flightgear is one of the first major Free Software games and has become a flight simulator that rivals it’s commercial [...]
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Linux Demo Available
Don’t we love when Linux users get to play one of the coolest games available on market. Well, here is one of them. It is the ET:QW, which scored highly on the famous games magazine and reviewer sites. For the moment the demo release only contains one demo campaign but it does have support for [...]
openSUSE 10.3 on PS3
The spicy power team concentrated for openSUSE 10.3 on supporting the Sony Playstation PS3, the major changes are:
openSUSE 10.3 is fully installable with YaST on the Sony Playstation PS3
a kexec-based bootloader called petitboot is used for PS3
There is a development pattern for Cell development on PS3 to easily install the needed packages
More details on installing [...]
Installing Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn on the PS3
This is a very simple guide that will teach you how to Install Ubuntu linux on the PS3 and to get more out of your powerful system .
Getting Started
Firstly, Download the Official PS3 Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn ISO file and burn it to CD (It is recommended you use a download manager).
NOTE: You will [...]
VMGL: Full OpenGL 3D Hardware Acceleration for Virtual Machines
This is major news for the virtualisation field as 3D acceleration has been the one area where there has not been much progress.
Introducing VMGL, which provides OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines. It is a program that you install in both the host and guest and allows for virtualizing the OpenGL functions. When tested [...]
Game Emulation In Linux
Computer gaming is nothing new. Even in the earliest days of computing, we began to see an immediate desire to run games. In 1951, the NIMROD computer was built with the sole purpose of playing the game of NIM. Some twenty years later, we began to see growth of games on both PCs and consoles. [...]
Connecting and Playing PSP on your Linux PC Screen
Ever wanted to export your PSP display screen to your PC, or remote control the unit for easier development? Today is your lucky day, with the release of my HowTo guide on hooking up the PSP to a Linux PC.
Another cool video of PSP –> connected to notebook –> connected to TV:
Bringing DirectX10 Gaming to XP, Linux and OS X
A company called Falling Leaf Systems has announced the availability of an alpha of something called the Alky Project. The Alky Project has a lofty goal: to liberate DirectX 10 gaming from the confines of Vista and bring it first to Windows XP, and then to Linux and OS X. The project plans to do [...]
Linux petitioners want Sony to open up PS3’s graphical innards
Penguinistas have run into the problem that all versions running on the PS3 have no access to RSX, the Nvidia-sourced GPU.
Access is blocked by the Hypervisor chip so there is no chance of getting around it without Sony’s approval. And, naturally, Sony doesn’t want geeks producing 3D games under Linux and undermining its investment. It [...]
Games: Tremulous
Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders [...]
Gaming: Cedega 6.0 “Swordfish” Released
“After many months of intense development, we couldn’t be more thrilled to unveil our latest and most exciting Cedega version yet: Cedega 6.0.”
Cedega allows games originally created for the PC to run on Linux, right out-of-the-box. With this latest release, Cedega 6.0 will support some of the most popular new PC titles, including [...]
Few Games on Linux
It seems like every time we turn around on the forums, there is a tremendous backlash against the Windows OS and Microsoft as a whole. Some of it is even well-deserved - the amount of overhead required by the new Vista OS has made many otherwise very usable computers completely obsolete, and that’s before you [...]
Demo Release - Beyond The Red Line
Are you a fan or at least like watching Battlestar Galactica. The open source Beyond the Red Line project based on Battlestar Galactica has finally released demos of the game for the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
Gaming - Drafted and pressed into service, your only hope of survival is to fall in line and train [...]
Preview: Transgaming Cedega 6.0
While id Software and Epic Games are among the few major companies that are Linux gaming patrons, if you’ve been wanting to play such games as Battlefield 2142 or Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you will now be able to do so starting April 14! Next week Transgaming will be introducing Cedega 6.0 “Swordfish”.
Among the features [...]
Sad But True …..
As a lot of Linux users do, especially if you like playing latest games (heard of latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R?) on PC, you eventually go back to booting WIndows, which is damn true with me ……
But then again if you are satisfied with games that are Linux friendly (you know they are of course not what latest [...]
Myths, Lies, and Truths about the Linux Kernel
Myths, Lies, and Truths about the Linux Kernel
WINE Gaming: Steam, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter Strike Source and 1.6
Updates: Jan.’08
1. Preface
Half Life 2 and Counter Strike are two of the most popular First Person Shooters available. These games are available for Windows PCs in first place. A growing number of people uses Linux as their major operating system and does not want to renounce their favored games.
This HOWTO should make it possibly for [...]
RapidMind and Terra Soft - New Linux development tools for PS3
It has been announced that RapidMind and Terra Soft have teamed up to make application development for the PlayStation 3 easier than ever before. Last month Terra Soft announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux of the PlayStation 3, and now with the RapidMind Development Platform, developers can more easily create applications that run on [...]
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