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Emus

MAME :: Atari Emulators :: Commodore 64 Emulators

First Person Shooters (FPS)

Doom :: Quake :: Quake2 :: bzflag :: cube :: Legends :: Enemy Territory :: Duke Nukem 3D :: AssaultCube

Strategy

BlackHole :: CoreWars :: RoboCode :: LinCity :: Mars Simulator :: Sheep Wars :: Atlantik :: FrozenBubble :: Exult :: GalaxyMage

Net Classics

xpilot :: netrek :: xtank :: xscorched :: Scorched 3D :: atanks :: TRON :: gtetrinet :: tong :: XScavenger :: Blob Wars :: SuperTux :: Ultima

Racing

Robot Auto Racing Simulator :: Race :: Canyon Racer :: TORCS :: T1 Car Racing Simulation :: Big Red Racing

Articles and Sites

• Slashdot story about free games that run on Linux.
• Another Slashdot story, asking if the key to Linux world dominance is thru a games distribution
• Newsforge article on how not to sell linux products
• Linuxworld article on Mainstream games on the Linux desktop
• Liberated Games - a site that tracks games that have been released into the public domain.

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Emus

MAME

http://x.mame.net

• xmame/xmess FAQ
• AdvanceMAME
  • http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/
• http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/ - scaling software for mame and clones
• Multi Arcade Machine Emulator

Possible Names

• PortaMAME
• Mameinator

Requirements

• MAME Roms

Recommends

• Google Pimp
• OpenGL X drivers if the hardware supports it (NVidia)

Notes

• glmame requires libglu to compile; install the following Debian Woody packages to satisfy:
  • xlibmesa-dev
  • glutg3
  • glutg3-dev
• in addition, if you want NVidia support, you'll need to copy out the NVidia gl.h glx.h from the NVIDIA-GLX directory (the GLX driver that is downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com) to some place where the compiler can find it; I used /usr/include/GL

Atari Emulators

2600 VCS Console and 8 bit computers

• Client Applications
  • xmess
    • xmame/xmess FAQ
  • atari800
  • Atari++
  • stella (Atari VCS emulator)
  • z26 (another VCS emulator)
  • O'ReillyNet article on 2600 emulators
  • 2600 Tutorial
• Possible GUI Names
  • AtariEmu - GUI front end to multiple Atari 8-bit computer emulators
  • ptkEmu
  • ptkAtari (make name program agnostic, as there can be more than one backend that runs the Atari roms;
  • ptkStella
• Notes
  • sample roms can be found by google searching for file 'xf25.zip', the atari800 project archive has a copy of the XL roms that have been put in the public domain; see http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=64318)
  • For zipped disk images, see the Old Atari Classics page (warning: very slow to load)
  • Pooldisk

Commodore 64 Emulators

VICE

• Homepage - http://www.viceteam.org/

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FPS

Doom

Client Applications

• Doom Legacy
• PrBoom
• Doomsday
• Chocolate Doom
• FreeDoom - open source Doom2 IWAD file

Possible Names

• ptkBoom
• TkBoom - GUI front end to multiple Doom ports

Requirements

• Doom shareware wad package

Recommends

• Extra IWAD files
• Extra PWAD files
• OpenGL X drivers if the hardware supports it (NVidia)

Notes/Ideas

• Doom Rosetta Server/RosettaDoom - translates network game packets from one server type to another server type, so that different ports can play games with each other. Possibly use PVPGN server ( see BlackHole below for links to PVPGN).
• Doom Ethereal Filters, parse game packets from different Doom ports and output in human readable format
• A Doom Bot, a script/program that can be used to deliver walkthrough hints, or control other programs like an MP3? player for example; players control the bot by sending talk messages to the bot
• To compile DoomLegacy
  • change into the DoomLegacy source directory
  • create a bin directory above the DoomLegacy directory mkdir ../bin
  • rename makefile to Makefile, then run make LINUX=1
  • ensure legacy.dat is somewhere where DoomLegacy can find it, a good place would be the same directory as the DoomLegacy X binary llxdoom
  • To run legacy, try this: llxdoom -opengl -iwad /path/to/an/iwad/file.wad

Links

• Doom WikiPedia entry
• The Doom Wiki - Lots of info including what the source files were named for, the internal format of WAD files, history, trivia.
• good WAD site (run by Colin Phipps of course) - http://www.cph.demon.co.uk/doom/du/
• New Doom - tons of Doom resources
• Parker Information Resources - tons of patches to wad files, including Beavis and Butthead patch
• Doom Legacy Wads - tons of wads, bug free!
• Chex Quest - a 'total conversion' of Doom that was given away for free in boxes of Chex cereal in 1996
• Doom Connector - facilitates multiplayer Doom gaming
• wad2svg translates wadfiles into SVG format
• ZenNode - a WAD node builder
• bfm - Brutal File Manager
• Yadex
• Linux Doom Editor
• Angdoom - a random Doom map Generator
• LMPC - Little Movie Processing Centre, can work with movie files created with popular game engines
• Classic Doom Walkthroughs - walkthroughs of all of the levels in the registered versions of the game
• strlen maps for both Doom and Quake, along with the WadC? language

Quake

Client Applications

• QuakeForge - source also has server code
  • Debian Quakeforge packages
  • See the QuakeNotes page for notes on the current (September 2005) Quake packages created by external developers

Recommends

• OpenGL X drivers if the hardware supports it (NVidia)

Possible GUI Names

• ptkQuake

Related Projects

• Quest - a Quake map editor
• Quark - Quake Army Knife, editing tool
• Nehara - alternate graphics/sounds for Quake engine
• OpenQuartz - a port of the Quake engine done to create new projects/games
• LMPC - Little Movie Processing Centre, can work with movie files created with popular game engines
• Q3Speech - output the ingame messages from other players to a speech synthesis program

Notes

• QF wants pak files in one of the following locations:
  • ~/.quakeforge/id1
  • ~/.quakeforge/QF
  • /usr/local/share/games/quakeforge/id1
  • /usr/local/share/games/quakeforge/QF
• if you are compiling against the NVidia GLX libraries, see the above note in xmame, you'll need to use the NVidia GLX header files as well, or you'll get SIGSEVs when you go to run the GLX binary

Quake2

• Compile instructions

bzflag

• http://bzflag.org/

Requirements

• OpenGL X drivers if the hardware supports it (NVidia)

Links

• Downloads - http://bzflag.org/download/
• Compiling instructions - http://bzflag.org/developers/compiling.php
• Wiki - http://bzflag.org/wiki/
  • Help Pages
• Screenshots - http://bzflag.org/screenshots/
• Tutorial

cube

• free 3D shooter, uses a unique system for generating shapes and lighting on the fly, no precompiliation needed

Links

• Homepage - http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
• Downloads - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91993
• Screenshots - http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/shots.php4

• multiplayer 3d shooter
• Homepage - http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/

Enemy Territory

• Wolfenstein Add-on
• Homepage - http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=7

Duke Nukem 3D

• Homepage - http://icculus.org/duke3d/
• Atomic Edition Installer - http://icculus.org/~ravage/duke3d/
• OpenDuke
• WikiPedia Entry - has a list of source ports and other utilities

AssaultCube?

• Homepage - http://assault.cubers.net/
• based on the Cube 3D engine

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Strategy

Black Hole

• a portable distro that runs in memory, and allows you to play StarCraft via the WINE emulator using only the Starcraft CD; once the system is up and running, you swap the boot CD for the starcraft CD, and then can run the game. Maybe add on a bnetd/pvpgn server that can run on one of the servers for network play.
• Complete StarCraft on Linux HOWTO - http://koti.mbnet.fi/hoppq/sc-howto.html
• PVPGN FAQ - Player to Player Gaming Network, which has apparently replaced bnetd.
• PVPGN Downloads

CoreWars

• hacking simulator, where your 'data' tries to take over a 'virtual computer'
• Homepage - http://sourceforge.net/projects/corewars/

• robot simulator (Requires Java)
• Homepage - http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html

• Like SimCity, it's a city simulation game
• Homepage - http://sourceforge.net/projects/lincity/

Mars Simulation Project

• life on Mars, simulated (requires Java)
• Homepage - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mars-sim/

SheepWars

• Homepage - http://people.cc.jyu.fi/~shang/sheep/

Atlantik

• multiplayer monopoly-like game
• Homepage - http://www.unixcode.org/atlantik/

Frozen Bubble

• vaguely breakout-like game that's supposedly addictive
• Homepage - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

Exult

• Ultima 7 engine for modern computers
• Homepage - http://exult.sourceforge.net/

Galaxy Mage

• real-time strategy game with a isometric view
• Homepage - http://www.galaxymage.org/index.php/Main_Page

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Net Classics

xpilot

• http://www.xpilot.org/

Possbile GUI Names

• ptkXPilot

netrek

• http://www.netrek.org/

Links

• Netrek FAQ List

xtank

• http://www.xtank.org/
• a multi-player networked tank battle/race/frisbee game. They need someone to test compile on Solaris.

Possible Names

• ptkxtank

Recommends

• a joystick

• http://chaos2.org/xscorch/
• a multiplayer clone of Scorched Earth for DOS. I knew it as Cannon Fodder I think.

• http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/index.php
• multiplayer, multiplatform clone of Scorched Earth, with 3D graphics courtesy of OpenGL
  • Find/write a "CastleSiege?" module like the Stone-age mod

atanks

• http://atanks.sourceforge.net/index.php
• another tank game clone, you can upgrade your weapons in this one
• needs Allegro sound libraries

TRON

• Like the movie of the same name
• armagetron
• gltron

gtetrinet

• net tetris client
• Homepage - http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/

tong

• combination tetris and pong
• Homepage - http://www.nongnu.org/tong

XScavenger

• Lode Runner clone
• Homepage - http://www.xdr.com/dash/scavenger.html

Blob Wars

• Metal Gear Solid?
• Homepage - http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php

Super Tux

• Super Mario Bros. clone
• http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/

Ultima (currently, Ultima IV)

• There is a software rendering engine called xu4 that can take the Ultima IV files and run them on a modern computer
• The Ultima IV game files are available for free on the internet... see the Ultima IV Wikipedia page for links

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Racing

• Robot Auto Racing Simulator
• Homepage - http://sourceforge.net/projects/rars/

• Homepage - http://race.sourceforget.net

Canyon Racer

• Homepage - http://projectz.ath.cx/?id-70

TORCS

• Homepage - http://torcs.sourceforge.net

T1 Car Racing Simulation

• Homepage - http://t1-crs.sourceforge.net

Big Red Racing

• run via DOSEMU or WINE

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Unsorted

• DeuTEX - Doom Tools
  • ptkDeuTEX
• apple2 (general page)
  • ptkEmu
  • ptkApple2
• 3d xpilot/nettrek game idea
  • fly around planets, gravity can pull you
  • asteroid mazes for battle
  • different weapons
  • meteors ala Star Raiders (you can fly into them for damage)
  • phaser meter, shows how much you can fire your phasers
  • skinnable ships
  • beginner (simple) and expert modes, beginner mode has less features
• Astrowars
• Worldforge - open source 3d first person role playing game engine, with various clients that do wierd and wacky things.
• xblast X/Windows Bomberman clone
• apple2-emu
• commodore-emu
• java-runtime
• java-sdk
• scumm-vm
• Ur Quan Masters - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ Game decendent of Star Control II, originally ran on the 3DO game system
• Danger from the Deep - submarine simulation game

Utilities and whatnot

• ATI Radeon TV Out program
• rdesktop - a Unix RDP client, used for connecting to Windows Terminal Server machines