TuxMachines reviews the SuperGamer-1 DVD, a live-DVD based on PCLinuxOS, optimised for gaming (incl. 3D drivers), and concludes: "The Supergamer-1 DVD performed very well. I had no stability issues and lag was very minimal. Only after long periods of inactivity or loading a new gaming level did I experience delays while the DVD was spun and accessed. Hardware detection was spot-on with, just to name a few, the net connection, graphics, and sound automagically enabled. It was a completely enjoyable experience and I can't find anything to complain about."
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2006-04-12
I can't hit the article, seems like it's getting hit pretty hard. Anyone remember when Gentoo did this with Unreal 2003?
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020916-ut2k3.xml
It was a live CD that allowed you to play within a minimal Gentoo install, and I thought it was a great idea. I'd love to see a game developer do this, distribute a game with a bootable OS on a CD, to play the game insert CD, boot and away you go. Save prefs? Perhaps a Thumbdrive or a way to write on a raw portion of a HD. Why not? Think about the support that it covers, everything would be included with the game...hmmm
I will download and try out this 'Supergamer' disc when the site comes back.
Member since:2005-07-06
A while back there was a variation on Knoppix focused on games.
What they changed: they added a christmas-screensaver (talk about resource hog...and it was januari when they released it!), the option to load a 3d driver (interrupting the normal boot-sequence), and added a selection of really crappy games (only handfull more than regular knoppix) lacking any form of instruction.
Things I had hoped to see, but didn't: shareware versions of known games running under Linux (Doom, Quake, and using WINE: Starcraft), great open source games (they have to be out there) and at least more than simple puzzle-games. What would've been awesome would be if they had taken the opportunity to show off the flexibility of Linux, with for example text-mode options for the 3d games.
e.g:
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
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2005-08-02
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If you have trouble connecting, and I'm sure you do, please use coral cache:
http://www.tuxmachines.org.nyud.net:8080/node/6136
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2005-07-06
Heres an active torrent for SuperGamer
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-search.php?search=supergamer
Or you can buy it or PCLinuxOS .92 from On-Disk and IIRC $5 is donated to TexStar for development
http://on-disk.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=supergamer&o...
http://on-disk.com/index.php/cPath/28?osCsid=58094d2bcdce70485b98bf...
PLinuxOS is now my fulltime OS, it just works, multimedia stuff is already installed and remains stable thru all upgrades.
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