Re: [Fwd: Re: Get Involved!]

[Robert Hall <rwhall@xxxxxxx>]

when i was in the dorms, allot of people played that game half-life <- the
shooting game. that seemed to be popular. i also think there is a mac
users group at tech! good luck.
rob hall

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Adam Shirey wrote:

> For those of you who were not at Thursday's meeting, we decided to try 
> and demonstrate that Linux can do pretty much everything that we all use 
> Windows for -- in particular, we want to demonstrate gaming as a fairly 
> strong point in Linux. Our main focus is going to be on gaming, and we 
> will (possibly|probably) also demonstrate uses for Linux such as word 
> processing, presentations (think PowerPoint here), email, web browsing, etc.
> 
> For gaming, we decided to go for the real wow factor with America's 
> Army. For those who haven't seen or heard of it, it's a free game that 
> the US Army has developed (or supported in development). It's available 
> for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Check out http://www.americasarmy.com/ if 
> you want to know more. It's got an ebuild for Gentoo. Other than that, I 
> don't know what ports distros have something for it. AA is a very 
> graphic-intensive game -- Excellent graphics, but you'll need the 
> hardware for it.
> 
> I'd also like to suggest we think about installing another game that 
> more people will be able to play. I have Unreal Tournament (original, 
> not 2003) installed on my system. Also a Gentoo ebuild for it. It's not 
> as graphic intense, but is still nice. It's also not a free game, but is 
> old enough that it should only cost a few dollars to buy.
> 
> I will probably be bringing my desktop and laptop to the fair. We'll 
> want to have something like ten people there to have a bunch of people 
> showing off the games. UT has a built-in server for multiplayer gaming, 
> but also has singleplayer mode. AA, on the other hand, is only 
> multi-player, so we'll need to have either a dedicated server or a 
> system powerful enough to serve and play. If you anticipate playing AA, 
> you'll probably want to give it a shot well in advance -- I have AA 
> installed in both Linux and Windows, but the graphics in Linux aren't 
> quite as good. (Maybe some tweaking with the config will do it -- I 
> haven't checked it out much.)
> 
> We also mentioned maybe also introducing OSS to Windows users. TheOpenCD 
> (http://www.theopencd.org/) or similar projects are great ways to do 
> this. TheOpenCD has software like Mozilla, PuTTY, OO.org, AbiWord, The 
> GIMP, etc.
> 
> That's the skinny on the fair.
> 
> 
> 
> -Adam
> dingostick.com
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Clark wrote:
> 
> > We're in!
> >
> > Everyone involved please read this.
> >
> > -dan
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     Re: Get Involved!
> > Date:     Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:18:12 -0500 (EST)
> > From:     Dan Adler <dpadler@xxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To:     dpadler@xxxxxxx
> > To:     Dan Clark <dalclark@xxxxxxx>
> > References:     
> > <2545.141.219.80.206.1070933942.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > <3FD925F4.9060609@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > Thank you for your organization's involvement in the fair!  As long as
> > your organization can provide itself with some power strips, we can set
> > you up next to some outlets.  Below is some detailed information about
> > participating in the fair.  Let me know if you have any other questions,
> > and thanks again!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dan
> 
> 
>