Ali Helmy wrote: > So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I > can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my > laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine? If you're interested in old-fashioned point-and-click adventure games like Monkey Island, then "Beneath a Steel Sky" is available (package name bass) from livna. This was a commercial game that has been released as freeware by its authors. It uses the scummvm package (also available from livna: not sure why this isn't part of Extras, since it's GPL) which provides the "engine" for the game. BASS, Monkey Island, and a number of other similar games were written for various "virtual machines" that provide most or all of the programming. The rest of the game is data: sound files, picture files, dialogue, and scripting that ties the lot together. ScummVM emulates several of these virtual machines. You need a copy of the data to actually run the game: as I say, the BASS data is freeware. Several other games are in the process of being made available for ScummVM: http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Discworld http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Kyra Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "Does exactly what it says on the tin." ... @westexe.demon.co.uk | I've got a tin at home: it says "Open other end". | It never is. | -- Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
