Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts

2014-07-03

Tutorial: How to play old DOS games on your chromebook

This is a quick recipe to play old DOS games like Sopwith or Alley Cat on your chromebook (or from your standard Chrome browser).

1. Install the DOSBox Chrome extension from here. First prepare a directory for your games.
In the application menu click on Files to start the file manager.
Click on the directory Downloads on the left.

Press CTRL-E to create a directory, name it for example dos
3. Download a games in your Downloads directory. For example Alley Cat or other games from http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/.
It should appear like that :

4. Uncompress the zip in dos.
Double click on the zip file, it should open it then drag the EXE from it in downloads on the left, don't drop it yet !, let downloads open then drop it in dos.
This should look like this :

5. Tweak DOSBox.
DOSBox is way too fast for those old games ! Start it and click on the tiny "?" on the bottom right (yeah it took me AGES to understand that it was not a help but a config menu !).

Here click on "Configure DOXBox (Advanced)" and insert a [cpu] section like this :

6. Import your dos directory in DOSBox
In the same configuration menu, in the "Disk Space Management" click on "Import Local directory to C:\ drive" and select the dos directory by double clicking on it and click "Open".
7. Close and restart DOSBox
8. Start your game !
CD dos
ALLEYCAT

9.Optional: What if my game needs F keys ? (F1 F2 etc ...).
Go in your chromebook Settings, click on Keyboard settings and select "Treat top-row keys as function keys".
ESC will become F1, <- data-blogger-escaped--="" data-blogger-escaped-f2=""> F3 etc.

2014-02-08

An AI engine for letterpress in golang

I just open sourced a thing I experimented with in golang few months ago.
Letterpress is a letter game on iOS and has a clone named Spell Strike on Android.
This is an AI engine that plays ... well way too well.
Don't spoil the fun: Enjoy responsibly !
You can find the repo here

2013-07-21

Tiny & Big review

I noticed that a game landed in Gentoo portage :

Tiny and big is an interesting mix between a platform game, FPS, puzzle and physics game.
Simply put this is the best game I ever played on Linux. I played it with my sandy bridge despite the intel graphics beeing not supported and I had to run driconf (you need to emerge x11-misc/driconf) to enable S3TC texture compression.
The game was definitely playable despite a weird bug with the fonts, all the texts disappeared

So I missed the dialogs but even without them, the game is awesome : you play a little character in realistic physic world where you can cut huuge parts of the landscape, drag the parts with a cable or push them by sending it a little rocket in order to achieve your goal either in action mode and/or puzzle mode.
You can see some of the gameplay in the official trailer:
The game is a little bit short but I hope a follow up will be made. It is really nice to see such a nice game on linux from an independent studio.