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H.Humpel
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Ottawa, ON
Aug 2004
time: 00:31
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Dear Apolytoneans,
it may be hard to find native linux games (even though the number is increasing steadily), but they DO exist  . Especially in the field/genre of games being discussed/played here on the Apolyton forum native linux games are well represented: there are the native Linux games of
- Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire
- Civilization: Call to Power
made by Loki, furthermore of course FreeCiv .
And there is the world of Wine/WineX/Cedega, which enables most Linux gamers to play most of the Win Games.
But - unfortunately and of course - there are some(times) obstacles in playing/installing these games like:
- How to run Loki games on a newer System (kernel, glibc, loki-installer etc.)
- Why doesn't EU2 run on the newer Wine-Versions ???
- Why doesn't ACAX read in the Custom Factions ?
- How to tweak Wine(X)/Cedega config files for game XYZ to run ???
- etc. (you name it)
These are just a few examples of course....
Anyway, most of any answers are out there somewhere in the web, but a forum here my be a good place for bundling them. And of course asking/solving new ones...
Furthermore.... wouldn't it be nice to have a little Tux-Icon in the Icon-list under your name ... ???
And finally - meant in good fun - even the Mac users got their own forum !!! 
So, to cut it short: there may be a Apolyton Linux forum/group if there are enough users interested.... that's what it's all about.
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spartak
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Surely the place to discuss games is in the game's specific forum irrespective of format.
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H.Humpel
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Ottawa, ON
Aug 2004
time: 00:31
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quote:
Originally posted by spartak
Surely the place to discuss games is in the game's specific forum irrespective of format. |
Yeah... kind of... at least most of the stuff.
But the same problem should have had the Civ-Macintosh Forum (and Group of course, this in here is about both: forum AND group!), and some kind of same question has been on the release of their forum, too:
early Mac-Civ thread.
Well, whatever, after more than 5 years and more than 500 threads (I guess) it is still there and active...
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spartak
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Mac is a platform and linux is an OS. I don't thoink the two are comparable.
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H.Humpel
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Ottawa, ON
Aug 2004
time: 00:31
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quote:
Originally posted by spartak
Mac is a platform and linux is an OS. I don't thoink the two are comparable. |
Well... right, but regarding Games (espescially one you have to buy and cannot build on your own) you're some kind of forced to the x86 architecture on linux as the games are sold compiled for this architecture. Even or especially on Wine(X)/Cedega.
So you are pretty much bound to the OS (linux as your choice here) AND the hardware... which looks the same to me like Mac being bound to theit OS and hardware as a "platform" (yeah... I know... and no, I don't want to be 100% accurate here).
Anyway, being an OS or a platform shouldn't play the decisive role for a new forum/group, should it ?
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