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[coyotedad]

I installed Nethack and am enjoying it.  Now, what I wish for is the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy text game.  Does anyone know how to put HHGG on the OX?

[coyotedad]

The Ur-Quan Masters is a port of the classic game Star Control II to modern systems. The program code that comprises The Ur-Quan Masters was derived from code written by Toys for Bob, Inc. for the 3DO version of Star Control II, with their permission and encouragement.

yum install uqm

It works great-try it
 

[coyotedad]

Escape - Puzzle Game
Escape is a tile-based puzzle game in the style of "Adventures of Lolo" or "Chip's Challenge." Unlike either of those games, Escape doesn't rely at all on reflexes--it's all about your brain. Although Escape comes with hundreds of levels, the game places an emphasis on the composition of new puzzles. Thus Escape has a built-in level editor and facilities for automatically sharing puzzles with other players.

yum install escape

My son enjoys this one

[coyotedad]

Berusky - 2d Logic Game
Berusky is a 2D logic game based on an ancient puzzle named Sokoban. An old idea of moving boxes in a maze has been expanded with new logic items such as explosives, stones, special gates and so on. In addition, up to five bugs can cooperate and be controlled by the player.

 yum install berusky

[koaziji]

I found a list of the 64 olpc-specific yum packages at fedora .

Free Like GNU blog links to koji's
list of 5155 packages, which I assume are for fedora in general, not olpc specific.

You can can see what seems to be the same list here at fedora, except that it gives a short description, which koji does not.

[bradpitcher]

I can't think of them of the top of my head but there are several packages I've attempted to install because of a dependancy issue with redhat-artwork.  Redhat-artwork won't install unless redhat-logos is > 4.9.3 or something like that.  Anyone else run into this/have a workaround?

[greenghoulie]

I had great success with PRBOOM and VLC (which works quite amazingly... I didn't know how great those speakers were!!!) based on this thread.

For fun, I tried Gimp, an open source Photoshop-esque proggie...

Code:

su
yum install gimp

Everything seems to work fine, although the tools and etc go to separate windows - which means that you need to cycle through the windows in order to access them (using ALT+TAB).

Now onto Amarok!

Just for reference - for those of you with large bulky fingers like myself, just hook your normal USB keyboard into the side. I have the Mac keyboard with a mouse attached to the USB on the back and they work instantly... In fact, the scroll wheel and back "thumb button" on the mouse operate perfectly within Browse.

[jefeliz]

I installed Nethack and am enjoying it.  Now, what I wish for is the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy text game.  Does anyone know how to put HHGG on the OX?

Well, here's a start:

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=886.msg6333#msg6333

Now I've just gotta find the files for HHGG, Infidel, and a few others. I have them in .z3 format, but I don't think that will work. . .

Jeff. . .

[greenghoulie]

So both Gaim and Amarok have some dependency issues that I'm trying to work around... I'm new on the Yum / RPM front so any help is welcome... essentially there are a couple libs that are not installed... konqsidebar is one of them. I think that it's part of kdebase, but when I run

Code:

yum upgrade kdebase

nothing changes.

I got frozen-bubble to work.

Code:

yum install frozen-bubble

It's a Snood-like game (or Bust A Move)... It looks pretty on the system, but I cannot get fullscreen running...

Your best bet (after installation) is:

Code:

frozen-bubble -fullscreen

[greenghoulie]

I got an Apache web server up and running with

Code:

su
yum install httpd

in combination with the kind of spacey gedit

Code:

su
yum install gedit

...got some funky errors with Gedit when run under SU, although I couldn't save to the /var/www/html/ without using SU... but it still worked (gedit is a text editor).

My recent pursuit (which may be totally a waste of time) is trying to get some 3d stuff running. I really want Frets on Fire or Pinball... but some GLX visual is missing. I'll report back on this, but I think the lack of a 3d accelerator makes this impossible...

[shawn]

I now have Lynx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Screen, and Subversion installed (Vim and Elinks pre-installed).

[greenghoulie]

ok ok... last post on this topic.

If you're having a hard time playing around with yum on the install / uninstall front, there are a couple GUI options for you :-)

I prefer (only because I got it to work first) Yum-Extended, or yumex.

Code:

su
yum install yumex

It doesn't have the great organization of those wonderful Ubuntu repos, but it does include all of the descriptions in a nice, easy to use interface. Of course, you're using more memory with a GUI so you chances of maxing out during the install are increased... but I'm sure there are ways around that...

Anyway, I did my first system wipe after inundating the poor laptop that could with all sorts of libraries and utilities... until it felt as bloated as a windows machine! My conclusion is that *most likely* *about 99%* that 3D stuff will not work. There are scores of other great apps and games to run, however, just don't try Frets on Fire... it won't work :-/

[Brain_ReCall]

Some further explanation on mplayer's installation:

Code:

$ su
# rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
# yum install libdvdread
# rpm -Uvh http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/7/i386/libdvdnav-4.1.1-2.fc7.i386.rpm
# yum install mplayer
# exit
$ mplayer <filename>

Where <filename> is the desired movie. It might complain a few times at "yum install mplayer" about unexpected files and out-of-range requests, keep trying at it if it does, it'll eventually take. Configured as such it'll play just about anything, including DIVX, Quicktime, Windows Media Video, and Flash videos.
Here's mine playing a Flash video:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3BHbleVVnX8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3BHbleVVnX8</a>

Good performance, although some slight tearing is noticeable during high movement (mplayer complains that "XFree86-VidModeExtension" is missing). Running XVID content has mplayer pulling about 35% CPU usage.

[voodoo]

HA HA! That's a video of Buckethead shredding!

[bsy]

when doing something that may be memory intensive, in addition to closing all apps, you could log in via a virtual console as root, run "telinit 3" to shut down the X server (the GUI), and then run the yum install or update from the virtual console.  when done, run "telinit 5" to get the GUI going again.