Play Pac-man (and more!) on your PC
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| If you have a fondness for old arcade games and want to play them again, try
| the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME), a free emulator that lets you
| recreate the look and feel of old arcade game systems in software. While it's
| written for Windows, you can run this open source application under Linux.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121911
Many emulators may not work with Vista. Obsolescence is still the plan. Linux
to the rescue!
Related:
Does WINE + Linux support more Windows apps than Vista?
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| WINE supports most of the applications which are made for Windows
| 2.0 up to Windows XP. WINE has the ability to run different versions
| of IE, run most of Adobe's products, run World of Warcraft, Half Life
| 2, Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Visio, Quicken,
|
| * Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
| * Need for Speed Carbon
|
| [...]
|
| What about drivers, hardware support, and upgrades?
|
| Want to upgrade you XP to Vista? no chance. might as well do a fresh
| install and shell out $300.
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/
Playing Classic Games Under Ubuntu
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| Now if you still want to relive your old days and play these classics
| whether they belong to NES, SNES, or plain old DOS games Ubuntu
| provides a way of playing these classic on your Linux box.
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http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/playing-classic-games-under-ubuntu.html
Why console apps still rock
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| The best part about these apps is that they are so lightweight
| and so low profile that you hardly need any processor overhead
| to run them. Back in September I had a 75Mhz Pentium machine
| (that's right, 75Mhz -- not 750Mhz) that could handle all those
| apps -- at the same time -- without any strain whatsoever. They
| don't eat processor time and don't need extra time to get done.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/why-console-apps-still-rock/
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Vista breaks 90% of games, claims game publisher
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| Alex St. John, chief executive of game publisher WildTangent, today
| blasted his former employer for a half-baked and negligent way of
| treating the majority of game publishers - small development studios
| and individual programmers of casual games: St. John claims that at
| least nine out of ten games do not work with Vista.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/30/vista_games/
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