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Gazmaz

Where are games installed from XN under expert? How do you start these apps when loaded?

fangbite · Xandrosianling Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 317

It all depends on the game. Usually it's a lot of guesswork from my experience.

woodsmoke · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:40 am Post subject:

Hi gazmaz,

there's a boatload of games in XN take a look at the other threads about games....

pick a couple that sound good and download them.

A good one to start with, unless you got it from the 4.0 cd is TuxRacer, a kind of Linux standard.

It will put an item in the start menu. And all you have to do is click it.

Others, and one never knows why, do not have a start menu item. It is just one of those Linux things...

A fellow, or woman, spends months and months making a game and then just drops it. Walks off and leaves it. I think it used to be, and probably still is, a status thing. The person was soooo gooood at what he or she did, that he or she just couldn't be bothered making a loader for it.

Or, it may be that the former linuxs really DIDN'T have any kind of common interface to let one do that, there's been discussions back and forth about it.

To me, that is one of the things that has restricted more quick universal acceptance of Linux. The lack of a loader to get a prog on the menu would seem to me to be one of those no-brainer things, but oh well.....

Anyway all this was by way of letting you know that you will be learning something about the innards of Linux as to where the things end up and how to get at them...

Several of the threads about the games have instructions as to how to find them and you can take a look at my rather longish thread about how to install a multi-part game, chess.

There are "quick and dirty" ways to do it, but if you are going to understand the basics of Linux file structure, under Xandros's PRETTY face, then games are a great way to do it! Laughing

So, pick a coupla games, see what happens and come back and folks can visit about with them, maybe me, maybe somebody else...

Once you get started, you'll be hooked! Laughing

ain't XANdros GrEAT!
woodsmoke
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Gazmaz · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:03 am Post subject:

Unfortunately you're spot on, I do not play too many games but I have a few favs that I occasionally "chill out" to like TOCA 2, FARYCRY, and my girls play (hooked on) SIMS2 and all the extra packs that come with it.
Now from what I've seen linux just ain't a games platform, and I as you see am not a game heavy user, and believe it or not the PC is moving into the home entertainment arena. This means people will want to play great looking games as well as watching TV recording etc etc etc, those people want to use an OS that they don't have to think about, money will be no object for them, so Linux will move forward but never catchup.
Now I am still going to persist with the xandros platform as I don't mind trying and experimenting. But I have to realise it's limits, and perhaps eventually the main PC will be a Linux machine with wondows backing up on some dusty pc in the corner (just to play games on), one can only hope!

woodsmoke · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:25 am Post subject:

Gaz

Boy, that was quick! Smile

here's the link:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=25558

It took a while for me to get a handle around the concept, but it did occur to me during one of my many afternoons lazing at the Xander Mountain fountain XMMS tiki bar that just how many is how many as in how many games can one play?

I've got a buddy that has a four foot tall tower, just the metal, and has I think , as of last count, 14 hard drives in it and well into 500 games, (he plugs and unpugs the ribbon)...

But how many of those can he actually play...

MYSELF..... just myself, I think that Xandros corp should work with the users here to pick out maybe twenty of the most popular games, that are COMPLETE.... I mean the sound, the music, the graphics, etc. and showcase them in their own special download area.

AND... make menu items for them.

AND, that the showcase should have maybe one a month added.

The billing for Xandros is "for your digitial lifestyle"...

YOU..my dear fellow, are the first person aside from my little old self who has brought up in these hallowed halls, just what I have argued since I came to Xandros....

that the HOOK to hang Xandros' hat on is GAMES...GAMES... GAMES... duuhh...

A couple of students were just jawing back and forth like you wouldn't believe about the new, soon to be released, Windblows/cpu/monitor/etc. for the living room wherein they could play their games and listen to their music.... never knowing about DRM of course,.....

or...maybe knowing and just taking it as part of how things are done to get them done...

their be all end all is playing the latest game and listening to music...

kind of like US when WE were kids! Laughing

but, you bring up a good point....

one which should be addressed by ANY of the Linuxs ....

I keep bringing up in several threads Gweled....

THAT THING IS A BIG DEAL...in Windblows..... the fellow who wrote the original game either released just the graphical part or whatever, but it is available...but not the sound or the speech parts....

I have said over and over, until my little fingers get hoarse in the throat, that SOMEBODY...ought to put REASONABLY equivalent sound and speech on Gweled and that would AUTOMATICALLY attract ALL the folks who come to Linux from a bad experience with "phone homers" that are downloade along with this type of game...

We have the BEUTIFUL and TUNEFUL... Frozen Bubble... but that is about it...and Tux Racer....

For your digital lifestyle....

and the teenagers think games and music...we are there with the music...

hey, good post, come back and visit some more! Laughing

aiN'T XAndROS grEAT!
woodsmoke
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Gazmaz · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:31 am Post subject:

phew looks like a way to go, but it's when the $$ start flashing in front of the eyes that things will really move forward, and do you really want to end up using an $$ alternative to windows?

Quick I must be a rugby ref! Yes I am!!!!

Gazmaz · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:37 am Post subject:

Oh yes 20 good games would encourage, but perhaps the software houses making the games should start testing the water, but then they have to look at the different ways to load, so that probably puts them off. Got to say there is nothing like Far Cry on Linux, and that game is a few years old.
Froxen Bubble, Tux um don't push those too much.

Yes I play my MP3's while surfing the net, and occasionally downloading a film watching it back to the music laughing at a few JPEGs, well I'm trying to do that as easily as I can in windows, but again it's finding my way round that's the hardest thing.

Unfortunately people like what they know, and know what they like!

woodsmoke · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

hey,
I thought the same thing when I came here...

just hang in, there will be that "aha" moment one of these days...

Mine took till about a month ago.

I was building a donation for a kid, and all of a sudden, I just knew what to do, even did the apt-get-install thing....

I realized that all of a sudden I was not having to "think" to get around in the file structure, etc. etc.

Problem now is that I do NOT want to get into the mode of "oh just do thus and so" in my posts...

Even though I don't know much, what little I do know...hmm...just what IS it that I know... ? Confused

I want to make sure that any new person here, notice NOT a "newbie" I detest that term, feels welcome and at home...

Thanks for the chance to organize my few thoughts!

I'm sure that you will catch on quickly and we will all enjoy having you in the forum...

AIN'T NEW xandros folks GReAT!
woodsmoke
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If the eco-ists would only shut up, I wonder if the sound of their droning would be replaced by the sound of normal people fitting solar panels and making soup from nettles and twigs.(J Clarkson)

Gazmaz · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah I'm going to hang in certainly not got the install processes yet, but will continue.
Just had a look at the return to wolfenstein castle video looks OK, so I’ll certainly be trying to get that running, I always enjoyed the original so a bit of nostalgia there as well.
I must say that even in the friendly forum you can find posts that say just do this go here and hat's it!
And it's not always!!!
I'll try and become part of the community rather than a user of it Very Happy

Glad to see your not saying ain't Xandros Gr8, and I mean because of txt speak that's all! phew nearly messed up there didn't I Laughing

woodsmoke · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

Well,
being as I AM a former english teacher I have to maintain my diginittiy! Laughing

You aren't by any chance into doing game mods are you?

possibly counterstrike or HalfLife?

ain't XandroS grEaT!
woodsmoke
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If the eco-ists would only shut up, I wonder if the sound of their droning would be replaced by the sound of normal people fitting solar panels and making soup from nettles and twigs.(J Clarkson)

Gazmaz · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject:

If you mean producing them no, if you mean playing lots of far cry ones yes.

And I found the answer to my original question, try and find the files using the search facility in the file manager. he he he, not very useful but accurate, Laughing

as that's how I did it, not for all yet by hey I'm learning.
And as to making mods maybe in the future, now I'm off for a curry!

woodsmoke · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

I think it was Watson who had a mild upset stomach from a too strong Curry.

We just had our very FIRST real authentic, Indian restaurant open here a year or so ago, and the better half and I go there about once a month for the marvelous food....

It is what I've looked for all these years in Chineese, Japaneese, Thai, etc.

Just love it, especially the spring rolls and different breads...

would you care to describe the restaurant(s) and your preferences?

AIN't XANdros GrEAT!
woodsmoke
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If the eco-ists would only shut up, I wonder if the sound of their droning would be replaced by the sound of normal people fitting solar panels and making soup from nettles and twigs.(J Clarkson)

redrum · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

Gazmaz · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

Sorry guys within a 20 min walk we have about 7 Indian resturants to choose from, amongst other types Chinese, Tai, Italian, French. But the Indian we go to is a a Balti hut the food can come in a dish that it's cooked in, the flavours are great, the place is always always busy as the prices are great. You can tell we are spoilt for choice.

woodsmoke · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

oh yeah,
just make me feel jealous why don't you! Laughing

ain't all sorts of wonderful food great!
woodsmoke
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If the eco-ists would only shut up, I wonder if the sound of their droning would be replaced by the sound of normal people fitting solar panels and making soup from nettles and twigs.(J Clarkson)