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LINUX MAGAZINE

Linux Magazine DVD

CD image that will autorun to give

you a working Linux system with-

out touching your hard disk.

Morphix is a modular distribu-

tion, (you put it in your DVD-Rom

drive, you boot and it works… no

hard disk-installation necessary, does-

n’t touch your data). Also, installing

Morphix on a harddisk is a breeze, if you

want to. Just click on the icon on the

desktop, or choose the installer from the

morphix/babytux submenu.

Team sizes are ideally between 10 and

15 on each side, and the network code

will allow anyone with any bandwidth to

play relatively smoothly. Game type

offerings range from the classic Capture

the Flag to a new type, affectionately

called “Knockout”.

Plenty of maps are provided, but the

beauty of this game is its customization

possibilities. Mission creation has never

been easier. Skins, models, and effects

can all be modified by the end-user with

commonly available tools.

Missing files

Last month’s DVD accidentally missed

the Gnome files. We have added all the

missing files onto this DVD and updated

them where a later version was avail-

able. You can find these files in the

/missing directory

games for you to try. Actually we

found mirrors of games hard if not

impossible to find so we thought we had

better do the job properly and collate

them. We have over 500 games for you

to run under Linux.

Many of the games you may be famil-

iar with, such as Tetris and the stunning

flight simulator – FlightGear. Some

games you may never have heard of,

such as Wakkabox or Quack. The games

cover many categories ranging from

arcade games to puzzles that require

more thought than joystick manipulation.

With over 500 games it is hard to

explain the broad range of this collec-

tion. In the following boxes we tell you

about some of our personal favourites.

This is only a tiny indication of what is

collated, and so we encourage you to try

the rest when you have free moments.

Racer (3D car racing)

Although TORCS is popular at the

moment, we have a lot of affection for

Racer by Ruud van Gaal. Maybe this is

down to just how smooth the driving

is in this amazing graphical car racing

simulator, or the fact that we can make

our own cars with different physical

properties. Just about everything is cus-

tomizable, which appeals to our sense of

exploration.

Legends (RPG)

As you can see from our letters page, this

is a recent addition to the games we play

in the office. Productivity is down and

we blame it all on Zach. This is a fast-

paced first-person-perspective online

multiplayer game. The game is designed

to take advantage of the beautiful envi-

ronments available from the Torque

engine it is based on, while still offering

the breakneck pacing and variety of

styles available from such classics as

Quake and Tribes.

Game-play is not the strafe-strafe-

jump-strafe-shoot-strafe-run-like-hell

style a lot of games espouse; the addition

of a jetpack adds a third dimension of

mobility that makes skill, forethought,

and restraint necessities to winning.

Freeciv (Strategy)

This is a game where you play the part of

a politician and ruler for a new country.

In Freeciv, the strategy game, you can

head the transition of a civilization from

a nomadic tribe to a world power.

Freeciv, the free version of the classic

strategy game, Civilization, which has

fascinated whole generations of world

conquerors and founding fathers, can

provide hours of gaming fun.

The idea of the game is easily

explained. The goal of Freeciv is no

less than achieving world domination –

Morphix Games

On the DVD you will find the latest copy

of the Morphix Live Games CD. This is a

Figure 1 : Frozen Bubble running under Morphix

Figure 2 : Shoot the right player in Legend

Figure 3 : Stunning graphics in Racer

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Figure 4 : Conquering the world the FreeCiv way

Figure 7 : Building molecules with Atomix

either by military or technological

advances. Each player starts off with

two settlers and a guide in the year 4000

BC. The idea is to found a settlement

with this society, to build up an infra-

structure, introduce trade and research

and to keep your nose in front of the

other players.

libraries required by the games. (Look in

the Libraries subdirectory on the DVD).

Atomix (Puzzle)

Atomix is known to many and is a won-

derful little logic puzzle game where you

have to build molecules out of single

atoms. These are scattered around

between the walls and obstacles on the

playing field.

Once you have pushed an atom in one

direction it moves until it hits an obsta-

cle or another atom. It takes some

thought to work out how to construct

complex molecules with this atomic

behaviour. The game is inspired by the

original Amiga version. It uses the

Gnome libraries and is distributed under

the terms of the General Public License

(GPL).

KWappen (Board game)

Kwappen is a seductively simple game

that devours too much of our time. The

goal is the reduction of the 4 columns in

the shortest possible time. The rules of

the game are very simple. You can move

symbols (stones) on top of a column or

rotate columns.

Columns shrink when 2 or more equal

stones are superimposed or if you have

4 equal card symbols in a row. The

computer stacks its own symbols in the

top right corner. The computer symbol is

put on the top of a column after your

move. The computer selects a random

column .

You win, if all your columns have only

1 stone or are empty. You lose, if one col-

umn grows to contain 10 or more stones

after shrinking.

ClanBomber

ClanBomber is a free (GPL) Bomberman-

like multiplayer game that uses ClanLib,

a free multi platform C++ game

Software Development Kit. Originally,

“ClanBomber” was a working title for a

small game started in September 1998,

no more than an exercise in learning

how to use ClanLib.

But the ClanBomber project has grown

into a real game. It is fully playable and

features Computer controlled bombers,

however, it is recommended to play

ClanBomber with friends (3-8 players are

really fun). Fantastic arcade fun.

There is no need to worry about the

Clanlib code. The collection includes

directories with the most popular

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Our top twenty games

Name

Type

Ace of Penguins

Card

Atomix

Logic puzzle

Cinag

Board game

ClanBomber

Arcade

Egghack

Board game

Enigma

Logic puzzle

FooBilliard

Simulation

FreeCiv

Simulation

Frozen Bubble

Arcade

Kvirus

Logic puzzle

KWappen

Board game

Legends

1st person shooting

Linux Snipes

Maze

Mirror Magic

Logic puzzle

Pingus

Arcade

Racer

Simulator

Rocks ‘n’ Diamonds

Arcade

Search & Rescue

Simulation

SnakeMe

Arcade

Figure 5 : ClanBomber in action

Figure 6 : KWappen is hard to solve

To rcs

Simulation

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January 2004

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