have an old labtop

[the_music_man]

hi i think i have a 100mhz or 133mhz pentium labtop. does any1 know any games that can run on it besides heartz and solitare and what not...

and do yo uthink even if a game requires 166/233mhz or something is there a way i can still play it?????

 

[NetRyder]

Erm ... install Linux on it. It's a game in itself

 

[SPeedY_B]

Quake1 requires something like a 66mhz cpu and 8mb of memory
Quake2 requires 90mhz and 16mb
I only remember these because i remember playing them on my 486

But it would make a nice Slackware or FreeBSD machine, Old machines always do

 

[NetRyder]

What about Descent? Anyone remember that?

 

[SPeedY_B]

Ooooh, Descent, i had that too! Classic
Erm, Alone in the dark 1 and 2 aswell.

Aaah, 486 memories

 

[Nick M]

Doom, Warcraft, Need for Speed 1 and 2, Linux!

 

[SPeedY_B]

DOOM!!!!!
More 486 memories, I remember when we had a family computer, and it was in the kitchen (damn our old house was strange ) and i played Doom2 right the way through
Can't say I ever played need for speed on it tho.
As for linux...FreeBSD...better

 

[Nick M]

Man, doom is awsome.

Speaking of, I have a really, really large archive of DOS games, old school, really. If anyone wants it, give me a PM

It's not warez!

 

[SPeedY_B]

Do you have Zork ?
Zork owns all

 

[Nick M]

I might I'll check. Never played really old games, I'm too young

 

[the_music_man]

wait i know linux is a operating system, but what really is it? how does it load, how does it look like, whats its compatibilities. i tried searchign on google but you guys are better at explaining

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

You could always just play Scorched Earth

 

[SPeedY_B]

wait i know linux is a operating system

Correct.

but what really is it?

An operating system.

how does it load

Like an operating system.

how does it look like

However you want it to look.

whats its compatibilities.

uh?

tried searchign on google but you guys are better at explaining

Yeah, we own.

 

[the_music_man]

lol what i meant is i know all games can't be played on linux. so what good games can be supported on the os. and if you could, send me a link or pics of the screenshot of the desktop of linux. i want to see if it has a start bar and stuf.

 

[Octopus]

Larry's series

 

[the_music_man]

i don't think i can download linux on my laptop b/c it requires 64mb of ram and i don't think i have that much on the laptop. i think i have 32 but i will check anway soon.

 

[SPeedY_B]

You can run "Linux" on 4mb of ram.
It depends what distribution you use, and if you run X or not.

 

[the_music_man]

i want ot run SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional

 

[SPeedY_B]

Any reason ?

 

[SPeedY_B]

I mean any reason for wanting SuSe ?
the reason i ask is because its one of few distro's that actually aren't free, and i highly doubt 8.1 would run on the laptop you have.