[NTLUG:Discuss] Merry Christmas... Stuff their stockin with these!

[Steve Baker]

Rev. wRy wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 11:47, Dave Augustus wrote:

>>Using a DVD-only approach will certainly exclude those who don't have
>>DVD drives but also one could argue that GAMERS are never ones to skinp
>>when it comes to hardware. Alienware is evidence of that fact. Also, you
>>will be able to include ALOT of demos and full versions: UT2004 Demo,
>>Armericas Army, Enemy Territory, etc.

I should explain that we wanted to stick with OpenSource games - so all
of those are out of the running.

In fact, it was perfectly possible to get nearly all of the OpenSourced
games that we thought were worthy of inclusion into 350Mbytes and to get
a useful Linux + X + window manager into the remaining 250Mb.

There were only a couple of games we decided to exclude on the basis of
their size - one of them was FlightGear (which has about a 100Mb of
3D models as a *minimum*) - the other was a Dance-Dance-Revolution clone
that really didn't warrant the space it consumed.

But aside from those two - there were really no occasions when we excluded
a good game because of space reasons:

The list we proposed (which fits comfortably in 350M) is:

Abuse-SDL, Battle for Wesnoth, briquolo, BZFlag, Cannon Smash,
Celestia, Chromium B.S.U, Construo, Cube-FPS, Cylindrix, Egoboo,
Fachoda Complex, FooBillard, freeciv, FrozenBubble, GL117, GLTron,
Heroes, Jump'n bump, lbreakout2, Legends-FPS, LieroAI, Liquid War,
Nethack:Falcon's Eye, netPanzer, Neverball, njam, Pingus, Poop'em Up,
Pydance, Quake/QuakeWorld, Rocks'n'Diamonds, Scorched 3D, Search & Rescue,
SuperTux, TEG, Tux Racer, Tuxkart, Waste's Edge, XRick

> Why not a base install CD and make the rest of the games available over
> the network?

People with the skills to do that don't need our help.  The idea here was
to produce an OpenSource games 'sampler' that's easy to use (Insert disk,
press reset, wait, click on game to play) and cheap to hand out for free.

> I know it was originally stated that network cards weren't touched, but
> it's not that much space.  Instead of a browser, automate a script that
> wgets what content it needs during install?

It's a good idea - but it's not the problem that the GBLD group wanted to
address.

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