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The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

I'm at my parents house with my old machine that I have Arch installed on and I wanna kill some time before bed.  Any games I can play with this ancient machine? 

P3 450 mhz
384mb ram
Radeon 7000 video card

Any suggestions?

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 815

Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Nexuiz will play well on that, SMC, Egoboo, Go ... depends what type of game you want to play.

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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Nethack!

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Battle for Wesnoth or free old games like beneath a steel sky via scummvm. The requirements are very low, but it's a lot of fun.

Lachkater

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 40

Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Old Infocom or Lucas Arts adventures. Quake 1,2 / doom 1,2 if you like egoshooters.
Probably you also like Nethack or one of its clones like Shlashem.

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 393

Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

I rediscovered Impression Games' city builder titles recently, i.e. "Emperor - Rise of the Middle Kingdom". It's for Windows, but installs and runs smoothly on newest WINE.  I think it's a nice proposal for a long evening, and it'll surely run on a >5-year old machine.

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Dzaro

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Registered: 2006-11-06

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Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Hedgewars

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

stepmania http://www.stepmania.com/

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: Any decent games I can play on this ancient machine?

Ah, let's not forget Tremulous!

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