Submitted by 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.”
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.
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/
I shall have to give this a try. I was thinking of giving PCLinuxOS a try anyway after all the good reviews on the net, now I have no excuse not to!
Texstar has done a real nice job on PCLinuxOS. It’s worth a looksee.
If you have trouble connecting, and I’m sure you do, please use coral cache:
http://www.tuxmachines.org.nyud.net:8080/node/6136
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.
LinuxTracker shows 335 complete, 83 seeders 231 leechers. This ratio could be much better so please keep your seeds going as long as poss after completion, to help next downloaders speed
So slow! OK, just allocated 4MB/s in Japan… intervening traffic permitting of course.
I wonder if there would be any benefit in having complete control of the undelying “OS” for a game.
F.ex. if id included a specialized bootable gameos in their engine. How much performance would you gain?