Monday, January 20, 2020

How to install Linux on your Playstation 3

Ps3Magic is a guide and software to install Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) or Windows on a PlayStation 3. Of the Linux distributions listed on their page, Yellow Dog Linux is made specifically for PS3. You can also install Ubuntu instead.

Installing will take from 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on your Internet speed.

Click here to get started installing.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Some arcade games

1. xgalaga

Clone of the old game Galaga. Ship moves by moving the mouse; autofire by holding mouse button. https://sourceforge.net/projects/xgalaga/

2. koules

A game where you are a marble and have to bounce other marbles into traps/edge of the screen to finish the level. There are powerups that increase your mass so you can hit other marbles farther and speed which makes you move faster. Watch out for spikes and black holes. http://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/koules/English/

3. Maelstrom

Kind of like asteroids. Shoot asteroids to break them into smaller asteroids. However, this game has powerups to collect and UFOs to avoid. When you see another ship like yours flying around, fly over to it and you get an extra life. Don't shoot the stranded ship or it will just disappear. https://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom/

4. Kobo Deluxe

An arcade game where the goal is to shoot the yellow or purple circles to make the maze disappear. The blue circles can be shot at to get rid of some maze walls. Shoot everything to increase your score to get more ships. The asteroids in this game can't be destroyed. http://olofson.net/kobodl/index.html

5. Heroes-Tron

This is a game like Tron or Nibbles and has several power-ups. To get to the next level in quest mode, collect enough purple trail +1 power-ups (marked with a capital L and a yellow arrow pointing to the power-up) to have the end of level power-up appear. Normally, it appears when any player is at length 10. Purple power-ups have an effect on you, white power-ups affect all the other players. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/heroes/

6. Geki 2

Geki 2 is a shoot-em-up game that has 6 levels each with a unique boss, and after the sixth level, I think it loops back to level 1. There are two power-ups in this game, S and L. S switches your shot type to multiple shots and L changes it to laser; both increase the strength of your attacks if your shot type is already the same as the power-up's shot type. The power-ups are inside the barrels that show up every now and then. I have uploaded the code at https://github.com/Quipyowert2/geki2/ You can also view the original Geki2 homepage on Wayback Machine. I got the code from http://triring.net/ps2linux/games/kxl/kxlgames.html.

7. PowerManga

Another shmup game each gem you collect gives you choices of different ship upgrades rather than powerups. The pink gem causes an explosion. Use arrow keys to move and Ctrl key to choose the currently selected upgrade in the panel on the right.

8. CriticalMass aka critter

Another shmup kind of like PowerManga; however this one's controlled with the mouse. Click to shoot.
http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net/critter.php

Friday, January 17, 2020

5 marble video games

1. Zaz

Zaz is a game where you match three or marbles of the same color which makes them explode and you gain points. The marble grabber moves along a track; click to pick up/place a marble. If the trail of marbles reaches the hole at the end of the track, the level is over. http://zaz.sourceforge.net/

2. Trackballs

Trackballs is a game where you move a marble around a level with various terrain hazards and other marbles that try to push you around. https://github.com/trackballs/trackballs

3. Krank

Krank is a game where you are a chain of three marbles and you have to match the color and shape of each marble with the slightly larger immovable marble with smaller marbles orbiting it. Sometimes you have to build chains of marbles between two of the larger marbles. Having two different types of marbles attached to the larger marble makes the connected marbles get shot quickly in all directions. https://sourceforge.net/projects/krank/

4. XLogical

XLogical is a puzzle game where you have to put four marbles of the same color in each spinner. Right click the spinner to spin it. Left click to release a marble down the attached track. https://changeling.ixionstudios.com/xlogical/

5. Neverball

Neverball is a game where you collect various coins and activate timers and teleporters to finish the level. Blue coins are worth 10 points, red coins 5 points, and yellow coins 1 point. Tilt the floor with the arrow keys or mouse to move the ball. https://github.com/Neverball/neverball

Friday, January 10, 2020

Video games about Science

1. FoldIt

A protein folding game where the object is to fold the most compact protein without any clashes. You can use scripts (called "Recipes" in-game) to help with folding the protein.
https://fold.it
2. EteRNA

This is like FoldIt but has RNA strands you have to color. The switch puzzles can be especially difficult. Yellow is adenine, Blue is Uracil, Red is Guanine, Green is Cytosine. In order of bond strength, Guanine-Cytosine bonds are strongest, then Adenine-Uracil, then Uracil-Guanine. https://eternagame.org/web/
 
3. Phylo
This is a DNA alignment puzzle. Match the same colors in each column with the least horizontal gaps to get the best score. https://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/

4. Axon

Connect the neurons by growing an axon. http://axon.wellcomeapps.com/ Note: needs Flash to work

5. Eyewire

Draw a neuron in 3D. https://eyewire.org/

Open source puzzle games

1. Pushover a.k.a. Domino-Chain

Pushover is a game where you are an ant pushing over a single domino to make the rest of them fall. Starts out somewhat easy then gets harder. The source is at https://domino-chain.gitlab.io/.

2. Fish Fillets NG

Fish Fillets NG is a clone of Fish Fillets. Starts out very easy then gets near impossible when you reach the level Independence Day because there are tons of heavy pipes everywhere which the smaller fish can't lift. Fish Fillets SourceForge page.
3. Enigma

Enigma is a marble puzzle game where you have to hit the same colored Oxyd boxes with your marble while avoiding obstacles that can kill your marble, like water or skull and crossbones elements. You can also push some objects. There is also a "meditation" mode where you control several white marbles and have to get them all into holes (one per hole) at the same time. Enigma homepage

4. Chroma
TODO: Add video

Chroma is a puzzle game that starts out hard and only gets harder. Collect all the stars on the level. The circled blue X represents you. Use the arrow keys to move. Press space to switch to the grey circled X. http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

3 Fun Open-Source Platformers


These are three of my favorite platformers to play on Linux. You can click on the screenshots; they are links to a video of each game.

  • Go Ollie

    Free Linux Python Website
    Go Ollie ! - Fantastic freeware game controlled by mouse 

    git clone git://tweeler.com/goollie
    Ollie the Oligocheata is a worm on a mission to bring mouse controlled platforming fun to everyone!
    Go Ollie is a free Linux game with beautifully rendered scenes and animations The latest in innovative mouse controlled platform gaming featuring a unique fusion of platform and match three gaming mechanics Two gameplay modes: Story Mode with over 60 individual levels each with three different objectives Fast and furious action game with unlimited re-playability and a high score table.

    Go Ollie icon
  • Plee the Bear

    Free Linux Website
    Plee the Bear on Linux
    GitHub repo
    Plee the Bear will be a 2D platform jump and run game, as fun as the best platform games of the 90's (the golden age of this kind of games).

    Plee the Bear icon
  • Ardentryst

    Free Mac Windows Linux Python Website
    Ardentryst 1.7 (2009)
    GitHub
    Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescroller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes will be needed to overcome the game. The game is set in another world. It is somewhat a cross between Donkey Kong Country, Mario, Castlevania and Kingdom Hearts. Ardentryst is focused on a fantasy world. The player is guided through a storyline which he or she must act in and play a major role in keeping peace and order in Ardentryst. It features two playable characters and a variety of weapons, items, armour, monsters, and beautiful level scenery and graphics.

    Ardentryst icon
Ardentryst has to be run with Python 2 (it won't run in Python 3 (yet :)). Go Ollie seems to need your X11 server to support MIT Shared Memory in order for the game to run. Plee the Bear should work fine though, just make sure to also clone and compile the Bear engine somewhere (such as at the top directory of the plee-the-bear sources) and install that first if you are trying to compile the game rather than installing from your package manager.
If you have trouble getting any windows to open when using VcXsrv locally with Windows Subsystem for Linux, kill VcXsrv in Task Manager, then run XLaunch, and make sure the "Native OpenGL" option is unchecked when running XLaunch. (VcXsrv Bug #94)

Originally published on AlternativeTo.net.