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kerobaros
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:45 am |
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hey dude look into Wine (winehq.net or sudo apt-get install wine)
or maybe install Virtualbox and use it to run XP inside Ubuntu
or yeah just dualboot but that would require reformatting your disk
also for most old games you will have to use Wine or Dosbox, but a few things have been ported; Warzone 2100 is pretty decent. |
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kerobaros
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:41 am |
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| Emulators most definitely exist for Linux; in fact, I spent today at work building an Ubuntu box for MAME and other things on one of the big screens. it'll be great. |
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kerobaros
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:43 pm |
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| Talbain wrote: |
| I'd actually use ubuntu exclusively if it ever released a really good SNES emulator. Unfortunately, nothing like SNESGT exists for Linux (bsnes is really not good unless you're looking to test what your game would do on hardware). Maybe if/when ZSNES 2.0 is released in the next century there might be enough reason... but then, that hasn't been released now has it? |
Man, what is people's problems with snes9x? Is it the lack of gui?
'Cause here you go.
 
It's pretty damned badass. |
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kerobaros
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:53 am |
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Since we're all practicing thread necromancy anyway:
For the last couple days, I have been replacing Gnome on my laptop with Openbox and pypanel, mainly using this guide. It's pretty amazing.
Honestly, one of my favorite things about Linux is that any one piece of the entire operating system stack can be taken behind the barn and replaced with something else, without fucking up much of the rest of the system.
But yeah, Openbox is lighttttt. Barely uses any memory, and uses a root menu instead of a mislabeled start button. |
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