My younger brother spent this last weekend with me and planted the bug (as little brothers are apt to do) of playing video games again. It has been quite some time since I have played many games, but he’s all about Guild Wars these days, so I set off to get it running in [...]
Yesterday I outlined how to install and play StarCraft and the BroodWar expansion on Ubuntu 8.04. Today I’ll build on that by outlining how to install the 1.15.2 “no CD” patch available from Blizzard Entertainment.
Installing the 1.15.2 “no CD” patch
One thing we quickly realized after installing was that it was a bit annoying to [...]
Over this last weekend I went to spend some time with my parents and little brothers that still live at home. My youngest brother, Dan, was playing that old-school strategy game StarCraft. After watching him play for a bit and remembering the good ‘ol times I had playing StarCraft back in the day I thought [...]
Its been ages since I played with SecondLife but I was reminded about it this evening and thought I would put something together regarding how to install it. There are not any packages for it in the Ubuntu repositories, but it is pretty simple to get running.
For those that currently use SecondLife maybe you can [...]
As a Christmas gift to my brother I decided to do a little research and figure out how he could experience some of the old-school gaming enjoyment that I grew up with. Remember the old games? 2D. Bad sound. No story. Yes, those were the days! Forget all that World of [...]
This one is for all you gamers out there. Did you know (I know, you probably did) that World of Warcraft will work on an Ubuntu system? You just need to add a few things to get it going but its really not hard at all. I have been playing for some [...]
