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

[Bob Edwards]

On 21/10/15 13:07, George at Clug wrote:
> Thanks Bob for you review.  I have corrected the Minecraft section.
>

Hi George - great - I hope my "review" wasn't too brutal...

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

There are, of course, some excellent FOSS games out there as well.
Some are quite dated now, but then, so am I...

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

I have my Thunderbird presently set to "View Message Body as: Simple
HTML" and it is rendering just fine for me. But I would really recommend
just sending it as plain text, or MarkDown as a concession. Leave
all the HTML markup out of it.

> 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'd err on the side of including it. It is helpful to know what you
tested it all on. Then, if it doesn't work for me, I have a reference
point to revert to.

>
> 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.
>

Good to know - although I personally wouldn't play them...

cheers,

Bob Edwards.

> 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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