[GLLUG] State of Gaming machines in the Computer lounge at Penguicon

[Caleb Cushing]

The Primary goal of the gaming machines is to show that people can buy games
and play them on linux. It's known that there are some good games that are
open source that run on linux. However, the general thought is that gaming
is linux's biggest weakness. So I wished to demonstrate. that this was more
of a perceived problem than a real one. As far as on older hardware....

Our specs are considered below "Entry-Level" in pc-gamer such a system
should be worth about $500 -$700

last months (march issue, april just came out) entry level system is

case and power suppyly
400-watt atx                          $140
processor
athlon 64 3800+ x2 AM2        $145
Motherboard
Asus M2N4-SLI                      $110
Memory
1GB DDR2-800 [512 x2]        $120
Optical Drive
16x CD/Dvd-rom                    $20
Hard Drive
WD 250GB 7,200RPM            $60
Sound Card
onboard                                  $0
Video Card
Ati Radeon X1600 pro 512     $130

Total                                        $725

I Think they must use bulk prices cause these look a little low, regardless
my specs were even lower probably resulting in a $500-ish machine. Now do my
specs look so new? My specs are that of a machine that was good 3 - 4 years
ago.



On 3/25/07, Michael Watters <michael at watters.ws> wrote:
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > I know this is (to my knowledge) the first time MDLUG has been made
> > aware of this. But, Currently the gaming section of the computer
> > lounge may or may not happen we have 1 machine for sure committed, 1
> > (that meet specs) If we need it, and another (that doesn't meet specs)
> > if we need it. Currently the show of Gaming on linux will be moderate
> > at best and perhaps poor. I am currently thinking it would be better
> > not to show off at all than to have a couple of so so systems.
> >
> > The Goal
> >
> > 1.)Show that Linux can run "Blockbuster" games (meaning proprietary
> > bought it at best buy) well
> > 2.) Show that linux can beat vista's in 3D desktops.
> How about open source games?  Cube is a pretty decent FPS and should run
> on older hardware.  Battle for Wesnoth is a nice strategy game and
> doesn't need a lot to run either.  Just check out the top rated list on
> Happy Penguin, should be plenty of stuff to show off there.
>
> http://happypenguin.org/list?sort=avg_rating
>



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Caleb Cushing
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