<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Speaking of Linux Games My al time favorite I saw Decent 3 on line for sale for 11.00 for Linux.<br><br>David <br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Wolfger <wolfger@gmail.com><br>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug@mdlug.org><br>Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:18:22 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Darwinia game at Big Lots for $4<br><br>
On Nov 19, 2007 8:38 AM, Ingles, Raymond <<a ymailto="mailto:Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com" href="mailto:Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com">Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com</a>>
wrote:<br>> This weekend I saw the Windows version of the game Darwinia on sale
at our local<br>> Big Lots store for $4. The game has a native Linux executable for
download, and runs<br>> wonderfully in Linux. It's an interesting game, and isn't like the
usual stuff.<br><br>I played a free demo version of Darwinia once. It was indeed<br>"different". I think it's well worth $4, at any rate.<br><br>> Also, on my Ubuntu 7.06 system one of the shared libraries it comes
with doesn't<br>> play nice with the rest of the system, but I just renamed the file
and the version<br>> that came with Ubuntu works just fine. Can't remember which library
offhand but<br>> there's only about four, and if you get this problem the error
message will include<br>> the library name in it.<br><br>Ubuntu 7.06? Was that Gutsy's Alpha release? ;-)<br>Yes, this is one of the bittersweet realities of Linux: too many<br>different ways of doing things makes it difficult for a vendor to<br>package software that works flawlessly everywhere. On the other hand,<br>you can at least fix it if something doesn't work, unlike certain<br>other proprietary systems where if it doesn't run, you're just out of<br>luck...<br><br><br>-- <br>Wolfger<br><a href="http://wolfger.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://wolfger.wordpress.com/</a><br>AOL IM: wolf4coyot<br>Yahoo!Messenger: wolfgersilberbaer<br>Ekiga: wolfger<br>_______________________________________________<br>mdlug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mdlug@mdlug.org" href="mailto:mdlug@mdlug.org">mdlug@mdlug.org</a><br><a href="http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug"
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