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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Question and Answers 2.1 Good lite Games for Laptops? 2.2 64-bit Linux and 32-bit games

[edit] Introduction

Got a gaming question?.. need a little advice to help you frag better? Are you so sick of being a noob that it keeps you up at night crying in the very same corner spent alone eating your Krat dinner. This my friend might be the place to help you get out of that corner.. and into another ..umm corner... (im sorry im lost already ;) )

-Enjoy

--RancidLM 11:47, 16 Jul 2005 (Pacific Daylight Time)

[edit] Question and Answers

[edit] Good lite Games for Laptops?

I'm just wondering if any one could suggest some good strategy/worms style games for my laptop... its not a big powerhouse of a machine.. just 1ghz.. and a 16mb vidcard... any suggestions? --RancidLM 11:47, 16 Jul 2005 (Pacific Daylight Time)

You could try xscorch. If your video card has 3D capability you could try Scorched 3D. (they are not a "Worms", but "Scorched Earth" clones). For more games i think The Linux Game Tome is your friend :D
PS: I find it funny to search 'lite' games for a 1GHz CPU... i'm on a desktop with 650Mhz (512MB RAM + TNT2) here and can run nearly every game I come across ;) --Hoehrer 02:46, 17 Jul 2005 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Possibly something like NiL would be fun. I'm planning to try it out soon. --RJNFC

A recent addition to the "Worms"-clones in this wiki is Wormux. I completly missed the strategy-games you asked for: Battle for Wesnoth, Widelands, Crimson Fields, UFO: Alien Invasion, Freeciv, NetPanzer, OTTD and alot more in the Category:Strategy may be suitable for you. --Hoehrer 09:06, 12 December 2005 (Pacific Standard Time)

[edit] 64-bit Linux and 32-bit games

I think I'm finally getting hubby onto Linux... he's interested in installing Ubuntu after having instability problems with WinXP on his AMD64 laptop. He'll be wanting to play many of his old Windoze games via Cedega or somesuch, but since windoze binaries are 32 bit, will they work with 64-bit Linux, or is he stuck with 32 bit Linux until the MS Windoze gaming world catches up? --HedgeMage

The first (quick & dirty) search at winehq.org got me this post. It's nothing i can confirm, since i'm lacking a 64bit CPU here, but i think 32-bit games should work under Wine. ... it sounds a bit complicated with this chroot stuff though. --Hoehrer 08:31, 27 November 2005 (Pacific Standard Time)
Collected Links:

• http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/06/0231.html
• http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=86497
• http://wiki.winehq.org/PortabilityFixes
• http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2017&forum=10&post_id=9788#forumpost9788

They will work as long as you either [1] extract the game instead of 'installing' it; or [2] get the source code and compile it under your 64-bit Linux. For #1, I am running SecondLife 32-bit under 64-bit Linux, I just extracted the files instead of 'installing' it. For #2, the easiest and fastest, but the disadvantage is if the source code is not available. Stick with your 64-bit, the world is already catching up. 222.127.195.179 07:36, 10 January 2008 (Pacific Standard Time)