Subj : Re: Sigil
To   : Ray Sbaitso
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Jan 03 2020 18:50:50

 RS> I used the time off at the holiday to get in some gaming, but of
 RS> course with the sales I ended up picking up more games, so now I'm
 RS> farther behind than I was.  It's not the like the old days where
 RS> you could only afford one at a time.   At least I could only afford
 RS> one at a time back then. ;)

I haven't bought anything in a long time. I've been looking but can't
find anything that runs on linux. I can run windows games on linux with
wine, probably. I ran UT3 with wine and it ran OK. I don't have wine
installed currently but could do that if I needed too.

 RS> I never got into gaming on Linux.  Most of the time that I've run
 RS> Linux my machine couldn't handle games.  Now that I have one that
 RS> could I've never messed with trying to get any going since I've
 RS> also got a PC.  Are there any Linux only titles that you would
 RS> recommend?

I don't know of anything linux only. Most of everything I run here is
open source so they are usually available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

Open Arena is a good one. I guess it's replacement data for Quake 3. It
runs with ioquake3, they may have modified it a bit I'm not sure. You
can run maps for quake 3 with it although open arena doesn't have the
stock data that quake 3 does so you can get missing textures at times.

http://openarena.ws

I also like UrbanTerror. It was (and still is) a Quake 3 mod. They use a
modified ioquake3 engine by default these days. It uses the ioquake3
engine but is different than quake3.

http://urbanterror.info

I also like nexuiz, today it continues as xonotic. It's based on quake
and quake 2 but not at all the same.

http://xonotic.org

I recently found AssaultCube and am enjoying it. It's a Quake 3 type of
game but not the same. It has it's roots in the cube engine. Windows,
Linux and OSX.

http://assault.cubers.net

There are more too, I use opensource ports for Wolf3D, the DOOMs and the
Quakes.. :)


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