Atom Zombie Smasher!
by subacati
At last! A game for Linux! :yes:. …
While researching the possibility of playing Dead Island on Linux, I found this little gem! :hat:.
Atom Zombie Smasher demo v1.84 for Linux
Just unzip it anywhere in your home folder and you're ready to plan a military rescue op! :yes:.
No binaries to install and no apparent dependencies required! (and no building from source either!)
Sorry folks but this is not open source. :left:. But if it was you wouldn't pay to unlock the full game now would you! :devil:.
Just to clarify, this Linux demo is fully playable. Unlocking the game adds extra features. (and possibly more levels I think?)
:sst:. The game is also available for Windows and Mac users!
Originally posted by darkesthour:
Only if you decide that you want to unlock the full game! :up:.Originally posted by darkesthour:
This is the Linux demo. But this game is available for Windows and Mac as well of course! :D.It's rare for a game to be fully compatible with Linux. Usually you have to use WINE to play games and that doesn't always work well! :irked:.
You have to pay? And have linux?? :faint:
I have recently 'upgraded' my daughters Ubuntu to play DVD movies, it was an interesting experience 😀
Originally posted by darkesthour:
That always is! :lol:.But then again, in the latest versions you only need to install one package to get all the bits. :up:.When I first started with Jaunty, you had to load several separate items and getting libdvdcss was a major goose chase! :faint:.It's only 'illegal' in America as far as I know but everyone has to suffer for it! :irked:.
Yet Widows Media Player just works? How does that fit in?
Hmmm! Might give that a whirl. :up:
Microsoft has some patents! Apple has some patents! Mpeg has some patents!They share or sell licenses to their mutual benefit! :rolleyes:.Although The stock-standard Windows Media Player doesn't seem to play anything other than .wmv files in my experience. :left:.I usually recommend vlc for that instead!
Ah! Top down things like we had in yesteryear! But prettied up for now! *wipes sentimental tear from eye*
I tried VLC on Ubuntu and it wouldnt render the video correctly, I updated Totem with the codecs (good bad and ugly 🙂 ) and libdvdcss and it all worked as expected
yes DH, Ubuntu doesn't have libdvdcss installed by default. :left:.But previously, they didn't even have it in their normal repositories. You had to add the Medibuntu repositories to get it. :faint:.@Kimmie. Yes, it's a fairly basic 'SimCityish' style of game. But they've concentrated on making it available for all three PC platforms. That makes it interesting for Linux users since we usually need to jump throug hoops and install WINE to get anything to run under Linux. :irked:.And even then, some things don't work properly. (ie at all :awww:)
Originally posted by qlue:
I guess I found that out the hard way 😆 I had to use nasty old scripts, just like the old ScoUnix days…:yuck:
Actually, there is a single package now that installs everything available through synaptic! :up:.But I'm using Debian anyway which has different rules! Crunchbang has libdvdcss installed by default! It also uses vlc as it's default media player! And it's a hell of a lot more stable than Ubuntu. (but less 'newuser' friendly)
That seems to be the case, different distro, different rules…
Meh, that's just PCs in general. Even if you do everything right and by spec, it can still decide to go, "NUH-URGH" and just not function. 😆
Originally posted by Spaggyj:
Exactly! :lol:.
I thought they were supposed to do that 😀
😆 😆
After trying several Live CD distros over the years (PC Linux OS, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Knoppix, to name a few, which, paradoxically, were on live CDs included in magazines I paid for at the papershop 😆 ), I've recently used Wubi to install Lucid Lynx to dual boot inside my Vista laptop (ahem, 'notebook' as they're apparently called these days). I initially tried Natty, but liked the idea of the LTS edition better, and the 'older' interface seemed to work better with my computer than Unity (and changing it back to an older interface on Natty seemed to defeat the purpose of having it). Bear in mind, this is the first one I've kept on my machine for more than a week, since the others (for some strange reason) wouldn't detect my wireless connection, making them pretty useless to me. :faint: So, still a new user, still learning even the basics, still haven't RTFM yet and still going through the official repositories in the Software Center. Having said all that, you probably know all this, but I found a Qur'an Study Tool there and thought of you. 🙂 If such things are of interest/useful to you (you may study the Qur'an in other ways for all I know), it's called Zekr.There's also a 'tweak' for inserting Qu'ran text into Open Office at QIOO.Of course, for all I know, you may be using Sabily, which is based on Lucid Lynx and (according to this review) is:
Anyway, hopefully there's something vaguely useful/of interest to you in there. 🙂
Originally posted by clean:
Well, you get ten out of ten for effort anyway! :lol:.I don't use Ubuntu or it's derivatives anymore, I now use Crunchbang! :happy:. But I do have Zekr installed and a seperate user account setup for just that purpose! :up:.I was using Lucid and planned on sticking with it. Then I gave in to temptation and Installed Maverick! :irked:.I never tried Natty but I did install the "netbook" interface on Maverick! I didn't like it even though I'd been using "Netbook Remix" since Jaunty! :rolleyes:.I later discovered that the crappy new Netbook Edition was using the Unity interface that would soon be the default UI for Ubuntu! :awww:.I would not not recommend the latest incarnations of Ubuntu, but rarther if one needs to upgrade, use Lubuntu instead! :up:.
Originally posted by qlue:
:doh: :lol:Given the hardware limitations of netbooks compared to other computers (which hasn't stopped us from looking forward to getting a couple around December :headbang: ), I wonder why they though Unity would be suitable?
Originally posted by clean:
Because the "Netbook Remix" that it was based on was just an extra applet called "netbook-launcher" applied over the standard Gnome2 desktop! :rolleyes:.They keep adding shit to the system to make it work with less powerfull equipment! :doh:.Just remove all the bloody "deadwood" and problem solved! :irked:.Crunchbang is so minimalist that it's almost completely clean of deadwood! :happy:.It does require some previous Linux experience though! A year's worth of Ubuntu is usually enough! :up:.
😆 Seems I've got a ways to go, then …
if you install the Lxde desktop or Lubuntu, which is based on Lxde, you have mostly the same elements as are Found in Crunchbang. Just add vlc, tint2 and Conky, then select 'openbox session' at the login prompt. (bottom of the screen under sessions) Then you need to configure your Conky and tint2 and configure your openbox menu. :left:.Or just use the Lxde desktop which should be a good primer. :up:.
:eyes: But … but … I haven't finished messing up Lucid yet! 😆
you can use the Lxde desktop with your current install of Lucid. :p. Then you can choose either desktop at login time. :up:.
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I've oly got two games on my mobile. :p.Snake and Jetris. (java-tetris)
another game :no: i have 35 games in my mobile , actually i have nothing except games in my mobile , so if those bad people suspend the net serves i will not feel bored 😆 , good idea , isn't it ?
Snake :eyes: , do u play it :yikes:
Sometimes! :up:.Oh, and I forgot about it but I also have minesweeper! :p.