From: > ---- "der.hans" wrote: >> Am 28. Jul, 2008 schwatzte Patrick C so: >>> I'm going to be throwing a LAN party celebrating my birthday next weekend, >>> and I recently reinstalled the operating system on my old PC to use it as a >>> server for the party. >> A presentation would be awesome! I'm not a gamer, but would love for us to >> have more info on game playing using GNU/Linux. > ASULUG seems to mix gaming and other fun, like custom-built MAME cabinets, > into their installfests. I'm a FPS and RTS guy, we have our share of WoW > and Eve Online players, we discuss things from time to time but never really > see things happen at events. How could we tastefully mix gaming into our > current curriculum? Tastefully? Probably shouldn't do "how to play Postal 2 with Wine" then. But there are a lot of people who like games and so forth. It would be really neat to see a game presentation at a meeting, or even an impromptu LAN party at a Stammtische. I've been doing too much Guitar Hero 3/Rock Band and too little traditional gaming lately, though. I was thinking about making a MAME/snes9x/fceu/gnuboy frontend that could be totally controlled by a joystick, but then I became gainfully employed again. It's always something, isn't it? -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss