[clug] Fwd: Introducing a few games that run on Linux

[George at Clug]

    Thanks Bob for you review.  I have corrected the Minecraft
section.

Sadly all the games are commercial (or have a commercial element to
them), none that I would call FOSS.

I exported as a PDF file: 
http://goproject.info/clug/files/DebianXfceAndSelectedGames.pdf and
yes, just having the text in the email works well.

Any comments on the relevance of including the explanation about the
version and installation of Linux that I did the testing on?  
I was wondering if including this was useful or not. I included it as
many articles that I read do not explain the actual Linux installation
and this can very much affect what supporting packages are available
or are missing.

I had not mentioned that Pokemmo, The Settlers OnLine, and Dragon
Fable are Flash based games and thus don't require installation, just
the flashplugin-nonfree for Iceweasel.  

I have found that at time Flash based advertisements on web pages can
totally crash the Flash player, requiring a full reboot to recover.



A few games that I have experimented with on Linux; Dragon Fable, The
Settlers OnLine, Pokemmo, Minecraft, FTB (Minecraft Mod), TUG, Ark
Survival Evolved.








Feed The Beast








_Create a folder _ 



# mkdir -p ~/Programs/FTB



# cd ~/Programs/FTB








_Download the FTB launcher from_ http://www.feed-the-beast.com/



# wget http://ftb.cursecdn.com/FTB2/launcher/FTB_Launcher.jar








_Create a shell script to run the FTB Launcher_



# nano ~/Programs/FTB/ftb.sh








_Enter the following text;_



#/bin/bash
cd ~/Programs/FTB



java -Xmx3024M -Xms3024M -jar FTB_Launcher.jar



exit








Minecraft








_Create a folder _ 



# mkdir -p ~/Programs/Minecraft



# cd ~/Programs/Minecraft








_Download the Microsoft client jar file from_
https://minecraft.net/download#all 



# wget
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar








_Create a shell script to run Minecraft_



# nano ~/Programs/Minecraft/minecraft.sh








_Enter the following text;_



#/bin/bash
cd ~/ Programs/Minecraft



java -jar ~/Programs/Minecraft/Minecraft.jar
exit








Steam for Ark Survival Evolved








The Debian Wiki instructions for Steam worked very well, installing
all required packages;



https://wiki.debian.org/Steam 








/etc/apt/sources.list



deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free








# usermod -a -G video,audio _your_user_account_



# dpkg --add-architecture i386



# aptitude update



# aptitude install steam




At Wednesday, 21-10-2015 on 12:38 Bob Edwards wrote:


On 21/10/15 12:10, George at Clug wrote:
>          Bob - Thanks for pointing out the file attachment
issue.
>
> I have been testing out various games that my family currently play
on
> their Windows 7 computers. I wanted to see how well they run under
> Linux.
>
> The link below may allow you to download the Open Office document
that
> describes the
> Linux system that I tested the games on and gives a brief overview
of
> issues that I experienced and how I installed the games.
> If the link does not work for you, please let me know as I have had
> issues using these links before.
>
>    Please try this link;
> http://www.goproject.info/clug/files/DebianXfce.odt
>
> Should you have time, please read the document and mark-up any
> comments and/or document corrections, then email back to me
> (Clug at goproject.info). I would
> appreciate the proof reading.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>

Hi George,

Thanks, got it - looks good.

A couple of points:
- this document could just as easily be distributed as plain text
(or as several plain texts, one for each game etc.) even as an
e-mail...
- or, it could have been exported to PDF... (more accessible)

Under Minecraft, you have "Download the FTB launcher" - presumably
should be "Download the Minecraft launcher"

Under Feed the Beast, you might want to explain what the -Xmx3024M
etc. is all about.

Might be worth splitting into FOSS games, "free" games, and others?
(and indicate which is which - some care, presumably many don't).

cheers,

Bob Edwards.

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