Sidux/Useable applications/Games

A number of games for Linux is quite large.

The list you can make bigger using emulators and virtual machines.

Gnome Games

It's a set of games designed for GNOME environment, such as: Chess, Mines, Sudoku, Blackjack and others.

Full list of gnome-games is available on the project side.

1. Installation:

apt-get install gnome-games

2. Running: Menu-> Games

GNOME games home page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames

KDE Games

The KDE project contains a set of arcade, board, cards games and some more.

1. To install theme type in Terminal:

apt-get install kdegames

2. Running: Menu-> Games

KDE games home page: http://games.kde.org/

Emulators

An emulator is a special kind of application which copy an operating system functions inside second one.

I'll describe a few emulators available in Debian "sid" repositories.

DOSBox Emulator

DOSBox emulates DOS operating system environment and lets run old versions of games and applications.

Installation:

apt-get install dosbox

Home side: http://www.dosbox.com/

And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

DeSmuMe (Gtk)

DeSmuMe is an emulator of Nintendo DS and can run homebrew, demo and commercial games.

Installation:

apt-get install desmume

Home page: http://desmume.org/

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSmuME

FCE Ultra

Next emulator FCE Ultra simulates 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.

Installation:

apt-get install fceu

Home page: http://fceux.com/web/home.html

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCE_Ultra

PCSX

PCSX is an emulator of Sony Playstation console.

It's only available in Debian's "debports" repositories for "avr32" and "m68k" machines.

Home page: http://www.pcsx.net/

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSX

Stella

The last emulator in this chapter is Stella.

It's possible to run games designed for Atari 2600 console.

Installation:

apt-get install stella

Home page: http://stella.sourceforge.net/

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_%28emulator%29

Wine

Wine as a simulation environment can manage with many games designed for Windows OS.

Wine installations and basic configurations is here: Sidux/Useable applications/Wine.

There is a list of games compatible with Wine on side: http://appdb.winehq.org/

Virtual machines

I think the best way to run games designed for Windows OS is using one of two machines:

Sidux/Useable applications/VirtualBox or Sidux/Useable applications/VMware Player

with Windows OS installed as a guest.

I propose to check Debian "sid" games repositories too: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/