Hadron Quark came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Hadron Quark came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
>> ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>>
>>> Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a
>> moment
>>>> ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>>>>
>>>>> __/ [ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 02 October 2006 17:29 \__
>>>>>
>>>>>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>>>>>> We are doomed, I tell you, doomed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's Ohio.
>>>>>>> TAB must be behind it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doomed, doomed....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You've been watching earthworm jim and I claim my five pounds.
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft enthusiastically reported a related incident.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14254314/
>>>>>
>>>>> 4 penguins perish in freak Texas truck accident. Speaking of Earthworm
>>>> Jim, I
>>>>> have him running on my Linux box (without WinE).
>>>>
>>>> that game kicks arse. I got it on my xbox (via a ROM engine on the
200GB
>>>> hard drive).
>>>
>>> That game kicks ass if you are stuck in the early 90s. Oh yes, you are
>>> gaming on Linux :-;
>>>
>>
>> Read up, the XBox Classic uses a stripped Windows NT kernel. Tho I do
have
>> the BIOS modded to allow me to boot Linux from CD, the XBox has its
>> specific use here - as a gaming console. Leaves my x86 gear for real
>> work.
>
> The xbox has a specific use as a games console? Amazing.
>
Um... well... yes. Does that surprise you, that a gaming console is actually
used to play games on?
> But if you're playing games what work is your x86 gear doing?
>
Video. Mainly.
> Regardless, of all this, Earthworm Jim is ancient news.
No, it's a quality cartoon from the nineties.
> And Linux is
> not the platform for modern games unfortunately.
>
>
Opinion.
One that is not shared by me.
My xbox has, as I mentioned, ROMs stored on its hard disk. Thousands of
them. I can play any of them on any OS on any platform which is capable and
suitably equipped. By equipped I mean, possessive of a ROM emulator. Which
the XBox has when running in native NT mode, it also has it in Linux mode,
my Linux workstations also have emulators (including MAME under WINE)
installed which are capable of playing these ROMs, and when I had XP boxen,
I had MAME among other emulators installed on those as well, which could
use the ROMs.
So, in my humble opinion, Linux is as ready for games as Microsoft Windows
ever was, if not more so (read up on Vista's issues with OpenGL layering
under DirectX to find out why OpenGL games are going to totally SUCK under
Vista - in my opinion as a part-time gamer).
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