what does 'console' mean regarding linux games

kanuuker · 10-14-2003, 12:36 PM

What does it mean when it says 'console' for a game. I'm looking at the games on tucows and the id games are often console as opposed to x11.

tangle · 10-14-2003, 12:50 PM

Console means command line, X is a GUI.

kanuuker · 10-14-2003, 12:55 PM

well, that was easy. Thanks. Got another one for you: I dl'd quake3 but I don't know how to handle an sh file, ie linuxq3ademo*.sh.zip.

arunshivanandan · 10-14-2003, 12:57 PM

unzip it.

Code:

unzip <filename>

run it from shell

Code:

sh <filename>

kanuuker · 10-14-2003, 01:13 PM

I had already tried that but all I get is a window that pops for only a instant, not long enough to read, and I'm returned to the command line and nothing's changed.

kanuuker · 10-14-2003, 01:40 PM

never mind, I figured it out. thanks.

theloneranger · 10-15-2003, 11:25 AM

have mandrake 9.1 on a generic box with 2 cdrom's how do i configure linux to play music cd's?

tangle · 10-15-2003, 11:44 AM

You need to use an app like mplayer to play audio CDs.

wuck · 10-15-2003, 11:53 AM

Or XMMS, that comes in the box if you have the multimedia package selected.
Just say Ctrl-L and specify the dir where your cdrom should be mounted.