The PhpBB script is wonderful and easy to use. It was actually nice to go and chat with Doug Kelly. He was polite and very knowledgable about this script and what needed to be done to correct the situation. This was a definite pleasure to install and get support. Thank you very much

I have Doom 3 running natively on Ubuntu. Since the Doom 3 engine already uses OpenGL, it was just a matter of downloading the Linux installer from IDs website, and installing it with the Windows CD. Any other games which use the Doom 3 engine should be similarly easy to port.

Since there are so few games available for Linux and Mac, any major commercial game release for all 3 platforms would have a considerably larger market share in the *nix platforms. For example, EA may sell Spore to about 1% of Windows users, they probably could get at least 10% of Linux/Mac users.

No point in Warcraft 3.. it runs perfectly in wine
I'd rather see something else, like Civ3
I know freeciv.. and have used it but it's not as good (I am planning to contribute to it, over summer )

Civ3.. Alpha Centauri, Panzer General 1 (2&3 sucked)
Tropico (or at least fix the wine bug with the mouse)
Star Trek Armada 2

Chessmaster 10. It is one of the very few Windows programs I miss.
It does install with cedega, but it doesn't start or, better, it crashes a fraction of a second after starting.
On the other hand, the Fritz 8 interface has been workin for a long time, either Wine or Crossover. There are many (easy) ways of installing more engines. But overall I find the Fritz series a bit boring.

Lucasarts:

-Monkey Island Bounty Pack [I, II and Curso of Monkey Island]
-Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

Monolith Productions:

-Claw

Xplosiv:

-Sonic 3D Flickies Island

Triumph Studios:

-Age of Wonders II The Wizard's Throne

Cryo Interactive Intertainment:

-Test Drive 6

Gremlin Interactive:

-Sandwarriors

Crucial Entertainment:

-Gods

Maxis:

-Sim Life

Microsoft:

-Age of Empires - The Rise of Rome

I'd say Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the Command and Conquer Series.

Also Star Wars: Jedi Academy and the Knights of the Old Republic series.

Oh and also The Sims II. That would be sa-weet.

Has anyone missed Prince of Persia?

I Would like to have gta-san andeas on my linux box or microsoft flight simulator X but i guess it wil never be!

I would love to see the Stronghold games ported, they are even better than Age of empires.

Do you (or anyone else) know if the original Unreal is available for Linux. I sure miss that game

I'd like to see "Defender of the Crown: Heroes Live Forever" ported. I can't get it work with Wine.

It runs in Wine:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ication&iId=89

But as far as I know the original was never ported to Linux.

World of Warcraft has not been mentioned enough in this thread. It works in Wine, but if your not on a powerful computer, you might struggle a bit.

Gaming is one of the areas that really needs to be addressed before Linux can become mainstream. That won't happen for free. I would pay a premium for games that will run in Linux. God knows I have saved hundreds of dollars in operating system and office programs with Linux. There seems to be a mentality out there that everything in life should be free - music, software and automobiles. The fact is that people produce great products and they need to be rewarded for their creativity and hard work.

For example, there is not one decent solitaire suite on the market for linux. Solsuite is an example of a solitaire program with hundreds of variations and great graphics that runs in Windows. It is not available for Linux. Furthermore, the solitaire programs created for linux are crude and the graphics stink.

Yes, I am aware that I can run in WINE. But I don't want to go through the experimental hassle of adapting a windows program to Linux. I want to buy it, install it and play.

The younger generation could bring Linux into the mainstream if they got the idea that people need to be paid for their efforts. In the meantime I use linux on my laptop to brouse, send e-mail and write. For plain entertainment its a bust!

People will pay for good stuff!

I don't think its that much of a hassle to try software out with Wine, especially with more recent versions of it. That is of course if you already own a copy of the software you want to try. I don't know that I'd advocate purchasing software to try it in Wine unless you know it works well (ie do to many positive reports of others) or you've tried a demo/trial version of the software.

I've had to put much more effort into getting native Linux versions of some games working. Granted they did work well once installed, but the amount of time and effort spent... I don't know, Wine seems easier, but then there is a chance the game won't work at all or well enough.

It doesn't seem that there is much hassle free Linux software out there If it doesn't come prepackaged for your distro's package management system. That really sucks.