Game suggestions for 300mhz system

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dpl · Post by **dpl** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:30 am

I just installed gentoo on an amd-k6 300 with 256mb ram, and an ati rage128 card (it might be a 16 meg card, but I really don't kow for sure). It's got a 20 gig drive, so space isn't an issue.
I was looking through the games section of portage, and I'm wondering what I should install for games.
Obviously, they can't be hardware intensive, but I'd take any suggestions. I think I'll start out with a nintendo emulator, and work from there. I've got a gamepad so I'd like to use that for some too.
So, what games should I install?

dpl

sternklang · Post by **sternklang** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:30 am

If you really want to go completely retro, try bsd-games. These are text-based games that have been around on UNIX systems for years, even decades in some cases. No graphics or sound, and typed commands for gameplay, not to mention your system is so much faster than the computers these games originally ran on.

DoktorSeven · Post by **DoktorSeven** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:48 am

Nethack.

ruben · Post by **ruben** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:30 am

Wesnoth and supertux are nice graphical games and should run fine.

avieth · Post by **avieth** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:26 pm

ruben wrote:Wesnoth and supertux are nice graphical games and should run fine.

Yeeaaaahhh supertux! One of the great linux games

Also get frozen-bubble.

drwook · Post by **drwook** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:02 pm

nethack. Then doom. Then nethack a bit more. Then supertux. Then nethack....

xu4 brings back some memories too

bass is another classic, you either like it or hate.

Dopewars....

After this all, go back to nethack. Repeat for 20 years or so...

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:33 pm

how about some emu... fce-ultra is a good nes emulator that ran great on my p2-233 lappy.

niskel · Post by **niskel** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:09 pm

You could probably even get away with a SNES emulator. I was able to run one quite acceptably on a G3 233MHz so that would probably translate to a 300MHz x86 machine.

SuperDindon · Post by **SuperDindon** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:13 am

Fallout, and all other 95-99 games playable with Wine

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:13 am

gweled. what kinda games do you actually like?

HydroSan · Post by **HydroSan** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:14 pm

Guys, do remember that this is a K6. I doubt anything short of text-only games would work.

bizzarem1ke · Post by **bizzarem1ke** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:38 pm

HydroSan wrote:Guys, do remember that this is a K6. I doubt anything short of text-only games would work.

not true.

startcrat the orignal, origanal command and conquer.
intese fights would be chuggish but they will run.

i like kpoker