Games

Because I'm currently playing Guild Wars pretty often and I was too lazy to switch between Windows and Linux when I switched between playing and working I installed lots of development software on Windows so I can work there, too. But after Windows crashed and shredded some of my source files while doing this I decided to ditch Windows completely. So I installed Guild Wars on Linux (using Wine) and after some configuration changes it works well enough. It never runs as fast as on Windows but it is fully playable.

Sometimes I'm playing Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion on Linux with cedega. Unfortunately the game has many intro videos which can't be skipped for some reason under Linux. But I found a way to get rid of them. Just delete the following files from your Oblivion/Data/Video folder:

• 2k games.bik
• Oblivion Legal.bik
• Oblivion iv logo.bik
• bethesda softworks HD720p.bik
• game studios.bik

When you now start the game then it skips all the intro videos and starts directly with the main menu.

This article contains some information about Lucasarts' X-Wing which I have collected after playing this old DOS game again.

After finding some old PC hardware and a good old standard Soundblaster 16 I've played one of my favorite games again: Privateer. Here I will store some data I collected from the game, maybe it is useful for others (or for me if I play it again in some years).

I played again this nice old role playing game and this time I've gathered some data during play which I will share here.