Please Post ALL! Games That Need Either the Original Disk

wiz · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject:

oh..sry I thought to post games that people can "make" playable in linux..guess i misunderstood the topic sorry :oops:

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Scen · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:49 am Post subject:

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Hexen
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stanley · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

Isn't quake 3 Open Source? Why would you need a CD?

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7547

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zeroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 128

rott
duke3d
quake1 mission pack: scourge of armagon
quake1 mission pack: dissolution of eternity
quake2 mission pack: ground zero
quake2 mission pack: the reckoning
quake3 team arena

zeroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 128

its been 6 months since top post has been updated...

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

zeroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 128

the rott and duke3d packages install with demo-data. what I meant was a rott-data and duke3d-data package. sorry :-)

Is this thread supposed to list packages that are IN portage which require non-free data, or packages which *need* to be made which install non-free data?

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

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schivmeister · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

Played Beneath A Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen (with ScummVM) a year ago and have just tested it on a Gentoo platform.

No issues. Tested, works 100%; sounds, graphics, fullscreen, windowed, quit. These are freeware so there shouldn' be a need for the original disks.

JayDeeFECK · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Location: England

Last Saturday i was at my brothers house on the wii (cause i'm cool

lol) and i played quite a few games, then i came across Zelda, a game that i didn't even knew he had, i was extremly shocked by this because i have often told people to start playing Zelda and seeing it lying next to that wii in my brothers house almost stopped my heart. So of course i put it in. and i'm afraid to say i was pretty bored after about an hour and a half. The starting is pretty boring, but if you like NO action what-so-ever or anything like that then it's a good game for you, things like finding your horse and stuff like that bored the hell out of me. but on the plus i loved the puzzles, me being quite a fond gamer this game didn't appeal to me as much as some others, my brother has okay taste but i would give that game 5/10, personally i prefer games with a bit more ACTION :wink:

if you can recommend any good games for me please do because i'm bored of these crap games with good graphix, people really need to start focusing on the game and not the look, like the good old days :cry:

Mattyalladin · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 3

The sims 2
Age of empires

dmead · n00b Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 68

jedi outcast
jedi academy

Koradji · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:09 am Post subject:

Hupf

Atha · Apprentice Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 243

You can remove Beneath A Steel Sky (games-rpg/bass) and Flight of the Amazon Queen (games-rpg/queen) from your list as it is freeware; there are no other sources required to play the game with ScummVM.

You should also remove all ScummVM games from your list as it makes no sense at all to include all games that can be played through ScummVM. If you really want a complete list, refer to http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php - all these games require the original files.

Why make a list and then add each and every game that comes to mind, when there isn't an ebuild for it in the portage tree in the first place?

Your initial posting said "Please Post ALL! Games That Need Either the Original Disk", so you really mean ALL games? These are thousands and more, whereas it would make sense to have a list of already AVAILABLE games in the portage tree that require original game files...

BTW, it is "ScummVM" or, if you insist it to be an engine instead of a virtual machine, "SCUMM engine", not "SCUUMM Engine Games".

Besides that, good idea. I was also in the situation of finding games in portage that turned out to be no value if you don't have the game already...

Atha · Apprentice Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 243

Hey,

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You could add the portage ebuild path, e.g. "games-something/name-of-the-game", which would greatly improve the value of this list!

Greetings again, A.

pandaxiongmao · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 478 Location: USA

Both Warcraft 3 & Warcraft 3 Expansion (The Frozen Throne) no longer require disc to operate. However, you have to have the latest patch (1.21b) installed in order to do that. They also run flawlessy under Wine.
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Ato · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject:

I'd like to add Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire (games-strategy/smac).

If somebody is interested: I just submitted ebuilds to bugs.gentoo.org for games-strategy/smac and for games-strategy/heroes3 for the PPC platform.

Cheers,
Thomas

Mr.EVIL · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2013 Posts: 10

war3 could be installed from battle.net with torrent like windows downloader.