David Wright's Blog - Entertainment

Eve Online Running in Linux With Compiz Enabled

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:12:49 +0000

Eve Online so far has been quite an amazing experience and no major crashes using Linux. Also as a test I enabled Compiz and there were no problems. Compiz basically enabled 3D effects on your desktop. For instance windows explode when closed or wobble when moved. All pure eye candy but still good to show off.

I had Eve running for 4 hours non stop. Eve Online is also very good for making nice wallpaper. Something I don't normally do. So I thought I'd share the results.

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Glest - Review of free 3D real time strategy game

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:46:00 +0100

Glest Intro Screen

I have just recently started playing a game called Glest. I was aware of it some time ago but couldn't get it working on my Linux Desktop at the time (I now use Fedora 7). But one day I tapped in yum install glest and there it was. So looks like it is being actively built for various Linux distributions, which is nice! It is also available on Windows but I have not seen an OS X version.

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UFO:AI SDL_ttf Fedora Core 6 64bit Problems

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:56:26 +0100

I thought I should make a note of a problem I had running UFO:AI 32bit on Fedora Core 6 64bit edition. Hopefully this may help others.

I couldn't find any specific version of UFO:AI for FC6 so I grabbed the binary avsilable on sourceforge onthe UFO:AI downloads page. After extracting the archive and running ufoai I kept getting a error complaining that UFO:AI requires SDL_ttf. When checking it appears it was installed but after some poking around not the i386 version which for some reason didn't get installed. The only way I could find to install it was to get it straight from Fedora extras download. After installing this UFO:AI ran perfectly

Some more games

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0100

AstroMenace Screenshot

Whilst I was looking at those other games I came across a game which I bookmarked before called AstroMenace from an independant games company in the Ukraine called ViewWizard Games but just found out there is a free version for Linux. I played this for a good couple of hours and was really hooked. The screenshot doesn't do it justice.

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Play some of the best free games available

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:00:00 +0100

I have been looking at some great new free software (games) recently. These have been around for quite some time now but have really matured to really show off the worth of free software. So in an attempt to get more people playing and/or contributing here is what I have been looking at:

World of Padman

Alien Arena

UFO:Alien Invasion

Danger from the Deep

This is not an exhaustive list by all means but these are ones I have looked at recently that have grabbed my attention for more than 5 minutes.

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Neighbours to be removed from BBC

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:59:56 +0100

It appears the BBC has finally come to their senses and decided not to renew their contract to air Neighbours

All I can say is it's about bloody time. Can we have Rolf's Cartoon Club back and the half hour cartoon slot before the 6 o'clock news?