If you want to waste time but have fun doing so gaming is a good way to do that. Digital downloads is a distribution method with obvious cost and sales advantages to the companies but they are also advantageous to us as gameplayers too. They are much cheaper even at US dollar or Euro rates [...]
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A Second Life?
SecondLife is one of the most remarkable Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games I’ve ever played. I’ve played quite a few too. In many ways it’s like what the Sims Online should have been only better. Better because it’s more freedom oriented and not nearly so slow and also better because anyone can contribute to creation [...]
Wine 1.1.14
I’m going to introduce WINE which is all about running Windows based applications on Linux and other operating systems, such as the Mac. WINE is open source. The ability to use Windows based applications is very useful for many Linux users. For new users this mitigates the learning curve of so many new applications at [...]
DOSBox 0.72
Dosbox is an MS-DOS emulator for Linux, the Mac, Windows and quite a few other operating systems. It lets you run older MS-DOS based applications, games and other MS-DOS compatible software. If you don’t know what MS-DOS is, thank your lucky stars and know the rest of this will probably be worthless to you. One [...]
Steam Support is a Failure
Recently I tried a demo of a game via a game trial from my friend. This game used Steam. Steam is a moderately popular game company that sells games as downloads so your don’t need to go out and buy a box. They also update the game and provide multiplayer servers integration. Because of the [...]