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Ferrenrock

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Registered: 2008-11-22

Posts: 36

Looking for games that work on an old comp

I've set up an emachine that has 128mb of ram and a 900mhz celeron processor to run openbox and a few other things. Really, it runs rather well, and I've only had it use swap when I'm compiling something while browsing the net with a few other things open.

Anyway, I wanted to know what games I can run on it, other than xtris, xboard, and emulators (that includes WINE). Does linux have any firstperson shooters or adventure games that can run well on such old architecture?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

http://assault.cubers.net/, http://assault.cubers.net/wiki/Main_Page#Initial_setup
I don't know if it will run smoothly, but you can simply try it out :-) Download is only 40MB http://assault.cubers.net/media/

Try googling 'linux games' for starters - it will give you links to game sites such as http://happypenguin.org/.

skualito

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Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 203

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

See this post http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69452, it's about a stripped Nexuiz

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

You could try warsow or opentyrian

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Oh great, now i'm addicted to tyrian... thx

BC

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Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 83

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

There's always Nethack!

Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

I used to run a 700MHz PIII machine with TNT2 graphics.  Cube, assaultcube, quake 2, and MAYBE quake 3 arena will run amazing on it.  Also frozenbubble, and nexuiz abeit VERY SLOWLY.

Basically, use simple games, windows ports of older 3D games, or linux games a few years old.  Might I also suggest Neverwinter Nights, Dosemu, and other emulated games (SNES, Genesis, NES, even PSX).  Please note that I am not encouraging piracy, as all of my emulation uses are legal!

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Exitium

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 202

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Urban Terror might work well, at least slowly. It was originally Quake 3 mod. Try it out.

http://www.urbanterror.net

Last edited by Exitium (2009-05-22 15:20:41)

Daenyth

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 1,244

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

I've found uqm to be extremely entertaining

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rhfrommn

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From: Minnesota

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 99

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Try freeciv, the free software version of probably my favorite all-time game, Civilization.  Ran great on a 486, so your machine is hundreds of times too powerful for it.

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

If you like Hexagonal strategy games, Wesnoth is a good one I've heard about for years & it (and games like it) run very well on older computers.  Quake 1-based games also will do OK.

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Cave Story!

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1LordAnubis

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Registered: 2008-10-10

Posts: 253

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Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Cave Story!

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Peanut

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 99

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

XEvil is quite nifty, and it ran smoothly on my old 700 MHz pIII with 128 MB of RAM.

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The package in AUR doesn't build, so I think you have to use a dated, official build. The issue with this build, is that you can't set the keyboard controls graphically; if you want custom keyboard controls, you have to do it through the file ~/.Xresources like described somewhere on this page.

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FallenWizard

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From: Vienna/ Austria

Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 99

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

You can also try some old DOS games with DosBox.

jlcordeiro

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 76

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

You can also try some old DOS games with DosBox.

I've been playing Lemmings for a while now

And yeah, if you want to play some good old adventure games, take a look at Dosbox and ScummVM (for LucasArts games)

Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

dosbox is wayyyyy too slow on a computer that old/slow.  Use Xdosemu instead and set it up to use Timidity/fluidsynth.  I have a working setup if you need it.

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s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: Looking for games that work on an old comp

Xmoto, if i remember the name right. I guess you could try it.

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