games/gaming

I was playing about getting steam to work using the Linux binary emulation. Surprising enough. It only needs glibc 1.12; Which I used by setting up a custom Linux jail from Arch Linux rollback server. (Works great, I may add.) However. I currently managed to get Steam to run, update and execute...

Mojang has recently updated Minecraft to version 1.6. In this version, a new launcher was required. Under their downloads, they list a .jar for "Linux/Other". I can get the launcher to start up, but when I try to launch the game I get an error in the console: ---- YOU CAN CLOSE THIS LAUNCHER IF...

I am wondering how many people uses their FreeBSD systems as a dedicated game server and what games they serve to. I know Xonotic, OpenTTD and Minecraft can use FreeBSD servers from what I read, are there others? Thanks, Dana

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5NDI Interesting, but IMO here's where GPL shows its strengths - if FreeBSD were GPL-licensed, AMD would have to release code for its drivers. Now, I guess we can count on someone hack PS4 and extract those drivers, but it's not going to...

I am trying to modify a PC-BSD script that I can use to install a vanilla version of FreeBSD. At the moment I have: distFiles=base doc games kernel lib32 My plan was to remove games, however I find it a bit odd that games.txz is part of the FreeBSD base system. So, I was wondering whether...

Ok, this is very not-Unix related, but maybe someone here remembers an old arcade game I was used to play when I was young: there was a car seat and three white Formula One cars made with a light projector on a rolling tape that was simulating the track. I remember the car having two speeds...

I'm not much of a gamer. But I keep seeing references to Minecraft so I decided I needed to indulge in a little geek culture. I compiled an installed the port just run. It starts up and runs it's "loader" program just fine. But I can't seem to be able to login. I signed up on the website for...

Hi all, Hopefully you guys know me and won't see this as spam but a few of us have just submitted our Kickstarter project. YouTube Video KickStarter page (more vids on the tools developed for the game) FreeBSD is a primary supported platform! Nice change huh? :) If you can, please spread...

Hi all, I have been a Gentoo user for about the last 6 years and have decided to come over and test the FreeBSD waters. So far I am really enjoying my stay! I am currently looking to transition my main desktop over to FreeBSD and felt that I could make that transition quite nicely. Q...

It's been a while since I first heard about this... Actually a few years ago... Well there it is. http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/ I hope this helps peoples to get out of Windows. I guess I can dream haha Now, I wonder if there's any way to make it work on linuxulator even...

Hello. After a fresh install on an old laptop (where i can't run X), I decided to undust and have a little nice time playing some of the bsdgames. Sadly, I found that the port version is "capped". gofish and monop ain't here, unluckly my favourites. I looked for a long while, and found the...

If you go to /usr/games, there is a 'game' called bcd. It even has a short manual page that says 'reformat input as punch cards or paper tape'. Apparently you give the program a string such as $bcd myname, and it displays that input at the top of a bunch of numbers. I do not understand what...

Just recently I took my home server and started to use it some as a terminal server with Abi word, and also use the Opera Browser in it as well. Then I started thinking, games. I have done some reading, and from my understanding you can't do sound over VNC, and the quality isn't the best. Well...

So, I am a recent GNU/Linux convert and am moving some of my work onto a FreeBSD 9.0 VPS. I enjoy having fortune lighten up my day so I attempted to install it through what I see as conventional means: # pkg_add -r fortune # pkg_add -r bsdgames # sysinstall Installing bsdgames through this...

Hello, I want to install the classic BSD games, such as battlestar, trek, phantasia, etc. I've been looking in the ports section and in the forums, and googled also, but I didn't find what I wanted. So how would I do it? pkg_add -r bsd-games doesn't not work. I really love those games :)...

Ever heard of minecraft? The computer game with over 6 000 000 registered users? Well, I found a server for it several months ago. I even donated for it. There is the IP: mc.prxcraft.com

This has been bugging me for quite a while now: games/xboing compiles and installs just fine but when run the following happens: fonz@ace% xboing XBoing - Please wait (gecos name here), initialising xboing ... XBoing - Error: Xlib Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Please read...

As the title says. Anyone here that plays on Xbox Live? Would be cool to add some new friends there and maybe go for some rounds. What's your GT? And what games do you play? - Don't hate me for bringing Microsoft here ;)

Hello, I have a cheap but cool Thrustmaster gamepad and I want to use it for playing games in FreeBSD emulators. I tried to configure it but I really don't now very much about this process. Here is what I've done. [list=1] I installed xf86-input-joystick and uhidd from ports I added these...

I'm trying to get the game to work in my box, and it mostly does if not for the missing cursor. The game compiled and installed without a hitch. During the game play, however, the cursor is missing when I go into the map view ('X') or when 'x' is pressed. It seems to be there since I can move...