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Guild Wars on Linux

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:01:08 +0200

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.

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Disable intro in Oblivion

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:15:10 +0100

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.

X-Wing

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:06:00 +0200

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

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Privateer

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:17:00 +0200

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).

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Wasteland

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:36:00 +0200

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

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World of Xeen

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:25:00 +0200

This is the map of the Cloudside of Xeen.

Indiana Jones III

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:29:00 +0100

Sorry, German only.

Dies sind die beiden Bücher aus der Bibliothek in Venedig, die man nicht wirklich braucht, die das Spiel aber einfacher machen.

Doom II

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 15:04:00 +0100

Sorry, this page is German only.

Im Jahre 1995, als die GBA Bonn versuchte, mich zum Informationstechnischen Assistenten auszubilden, und in den zahlreichen Netzwerk-Sessions Doom 2 immer mehr in den Vordergrund rückte, kam mir die Idee zu diesem Level, denn es reizte irgendwie, die Mitschüler durch bekannte Schulräume zu jagen. Hinzu kam noch, daß der Technologie- Trakt der Schule umgebaut werden sollte und ich in die Hände der Grundrisspläne kam. Damit war es dann kein Problem mehr, das Level zu planen und es schließlich mit Hilfe eines Editors zu konstruieren.

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