Category Archives: The MUD Room

Where we talk about games of all sorts!

All in the Quest for Gaming

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Captain Thomas Mashek

These last few days have been somewhat annoying. In the span of one week I have installed Ubuntu, configured it and had all but system-wide SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) working. I was able to play Unreal Tournament with my girlfriend and cousin, albeit with some minor issues, as I wrote about last time. This was great until I wanted to play some 2D games, such as Falcon’s Eye, Widelands, or use my NES/SNES emulators (gfceu and snes9express respectively). So, in my quest to get SDL working, I ended up hosing it entirely and needed to reinstall. I downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit, burned it, and installed it. Continue reading →

Unreal Tournament & Ubuntu

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Captain Thomas Mashek

I play Unreal Tournament GOTY (Game of the Year) with my lady Amoureux, and switching Dral (my laptop) to Ubuntu 7.10 posed a problem: I knew UT worked in Linux, but had never tried on a Debian-based install.

My first problem was that I didn’t have my discs available, as they’re in storage. After a few (six+) hours of searching the Internet and mainly the Ubuntu Forums, I had pretty much resigned myself to the fate of waiting until I could get a hold of my discs. However, I am not one to give up so easily, so I decided to do something that people didn’t seem to think of doing when they have problems with their cd install; install by using an existing playable copy. Continue reading →

Gears of War

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Captain Thomas Mashek

My friend Matt came over to work a little (and I mean very little, as we only had to check one thing) and he ended up bringing his Xbox360 and a television so he could show me the Halo 3 beta. We ended up staying up quite late playing Gears of War. There was only one game that ever tempted me to want to even think about getting an Xbox360 and that was the very game. Continue reading →