[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent?

[Mark Kimsal]

On Tuesday 20 January 09, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > From: Mark Kimsal
> >
> > I couldn't really tell if you wanted to put money down for commercial
> > games, or if the birthday present would be just setting up and
>
> installing
>
> > some FOSS games.
>
>  Commercial or FOSS is fine, just so long as it runs well under Linux.
>
> > But, commercial games are best done with Cedega, second best-ly done
> > with Wine.
>
>  I've got several games that run fine under Wine (e.g. Alice and Freedom
> Force); never felt the need to try Cedega.
>
>  I'm pondering trying out Valve's "Portal" under Steam. Technically an
> FPS, but much more of a puzzle game than a twitch one. According to
> Wine's DB, it can be made to run well...
Portal gives me headaches..

Cedega gives you a nicer way to launch the games with Point2Play, and some 
better compatibility with Anti-cracking programs on commercial games.  I 
think there might be some better font support, and better EULA reading by 
providing a firefox/active X type plugin, because most game makers expect IE 
(MSHTML) to be installed on the target computer.

But, again, I wasn't sure how much the concept of a paid-for "gift" fits into 
this birthday.  Just thought Cedega would be more gift-like than just 
doing "apt-get install wine".


> Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                              (313) 227-2317
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