Ubuntu-Chicago Greetings And Hello

[Max Luebbe]

zomg Battletech Center!
I remember that!
That can't still be around, is it?

-Max

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 20:51 -0500, Mike DePolis wrote:
> I would love to see Cedega demo and see what kind of things will run
> on it.  I briefly played with it before but didn't devote much time
> due to just plain being busy with other things.
> 
> BTW, very cool gig you had Eric.  I too fondly remember Battletech
> (board game) Mechwarrior and Shadowrun on the RPG front (plus the
> video games of course).  Even made it out to the Battletech Center in
> Navy pier a ways back.  that place was cool.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Max Luebbe wrote: 
> > I've got some experience gaming in Linux.
> > Back when I had more free time I used to play W3 Frozen Throne on
> > battle.net with no problems using Cedega.
> > 
> > If you don't know this already, id software are heroes, as they have
> > native linux ports of all their games, and write their gfx code in
> > openGL so its not tied to windows and DirectX.
> > 
> > If you've got questions, send them our way and we'll do the best we can.
> > 
> > If anybody wants to see a demo of Cedega at the meeting this month, I'd
> > be happy to oblige. Also, if anybody is asking will game 'X' work under
> > linux, and can't find answers, I'd be willing to let you try on my
> > machine/setup if you bring install materials. (I've got a Geforce
> > 6250Go, which isn't that amazing, but is nice for a laptop.)
> > 
> > (Also, I will definately not turn down any promo stuff you're generous
> > enough to send my way! I still remember fondly gunning down anything
> > that moves in a TimberWolf in Mechwarrior2 for my 486/66DX2 way back in
> > the day!)
> > 
> > -Max
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 19:15 -0500, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi Eric:
> > > 
> > > Good to email-meet you.  I'm not really into games until very
> > > recently, but I do like linux.  The past week or so I've been
> > > downloading a bunch of LiveCDs (CDs that will boot your machine
> > > directly) to play with and see how they work with my computer.    I
> > > did download Games Knoppix 3.7 which is supposed to boot on any
> > > machine so you can play games on it.  These are all linux games  of
> > > course.  You can find a list to many LiveCDs on Frozen Tech's LiveCD
> > > list.   I put a link to is on my delicious page with the LiveDistro
> > > tag.  So far I've downloaded GamesKnoppix, KnoppMyth, Knoppix, Damn
> > > Small Linux, Ultimate BootCD, and Ubuntu.  Kind of fun. 
> > > 
> > > Have a good night,
> > > 
> > >  -Matt Johnson
> > > http://del.icio.us/MattJhsn/LiveDistro
> > > 
> > > On 10/7/06, Jake Ryker <jakeryker2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >         Hello ALL,
> > >         
> > >         My name is Eric Smith and I hope to see you all at the
> > >         upcoming meeting. I have been talking with Rich via
> > >         email and asked a question. As I understand it some of
> > >         the discussions will be about Gaming in Linux. Since I 
> > >         am new to linux but not to gaming. I would make anyone
> > >         [clip]
> > >     
> > 
> > 
> >