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I have simultaneously increased my geek and hippie cred by installing Ubuntu on my computer. Now to explore the packages of linux games on Synaptic. Freeciv here I come!
Installed linux version of ePSXe, but wouldn't work due to missing dll, so I'll have to get that before suffering Final Fantasy withdrawal.
Vampire didn't run either, but I think I can get it to do so by changing configs in wine. It's too bad ipods can't play ogg's. Will need plugin so I can use evil proprietary mp3's. Hopefully I'll have the important stuff (games and music) running in the next couple of days.
July 14 2005, 21:43:03 UTC 6 years ago
July 15 2005, 03:06:43 UTC 6 years ago
July 16 2005, 02:27:27 UTC 6 years ago
:)
-Me.
July 18 2005, 19:00:53 UTC 6 years ago
July 18 2005, 19:39:49 UTC 6 years ago
I got the music player to play mp3's, but not m4a's yet. I hope there is a plugin for those.
Things not so good on the games front.
I got ePSXe to run, but with no sound and the window was very small. Making the window larger caused the game to run very slow.
Freeciv could not find the server, even with localhost, using the default port 5555. Maybe a firewall problem...?
I have not successfully gotten any windows programs to run via wine. I think there is something wrong with my wine, so I'll have to look into that more carefully when I have time.
July 19 2005, 18:39:24 UTC 6 years ago
As for Playstation emulators, there are also many (multiple in portage, Gentoo's package management system). Being open source, you get the crap along with the good--I'd Google to get opinions on emulators. Or, alternately, Google for solutions to your particular problems (although most bugs won't affect speed immensely). Linux problems, in my experience, are head over heals easier to find solutions to on Google than Windows. Alternately, there must be someone you know who uses Linux and has a Playstation emulator running. I'd suggest looking for a recommended one.
Freeciv does not run a server by default, you have to run a server yourself, or find someone else's (I can't remember if it has a search function or master server repository.) I will warn you that while FreeCiv is amazing for multi-player, when I played it last, the computer AI sucked.