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[quinnr]

So I my big HP laptop died a while back, and I've just recently started to get into gaming again. I am currently running on the ASUS EEEPC 701

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It has...decent stats, but I can't play anything too fancy. The only real problem is space. It currently has about 100MBs of space left. (And all I have installed is GIMP and a couple other programs)...with my 2GB SD card that brings it up to 2248MB of data. So I need some small games that I can play on Linux.

I'd really rather you not post Roguelikes, as I already have a TON of those and can easily find more. Also I already have the linux port of Cave Story, Dwarf Fortress (although that gets a bit slow after there are more than 10-20 dwarfs or so), and Powder Toy (don't forget that screen resolution is an issue for some games as well!).

[malkomk]

Ooh, nice machine you got there I'd love to have something portable like that for programming.

- DOS games via DOSEmu. They're still fun despite their age, and DOSEmu might be fast enough to run them on your system.
- Text adventures. They're small files and they deliver lots of game for the megabytes. Plus they're rather one-off things, so once you finish them, bam! Down the drain. There are ones that are all mind numbing puzzle type and ones that are all story type and ones that are in between. There are even a few dice-controlled-battle-centric ones (I know of at least one) but I"m not partial to those.
- Check out http://spins.fedoraproject.org/games/ - it's a live disc, 4 gigs, and has a TON of Linux games on it. If your EEEPC has a CD drive (I assume it does as you got Linux onto it) then it might be well worth grabbing, the only problem is that you don't have enough disk space to get the whole thing. Try using a friend's computer? Download onto a (big) USB thumbdrive. Even if you can't directly download the thing, it has a list of the games on it and therefore is a good place to go looking.

[sluissa]

the EEE PCs, as far as I know, don't have cd drives at all. I've got an EEE 900 that's been serving me well for a while now. Dosbox runs well, so just about any game from the dos era is good. I've got x-com, darklands and a few others installed to my dropbox folder so I can keep my savegames in sync so I can also play them on my desktop(or really anywhere with a net connection)

I managed to get FreeCol(Open source Colonization remake) to run on it after a bit of fiddling with the source code. The window that displayed the settlement info was too big and was unresizable. I made a quick resizing of a couple of elements in there in the source code which, while slightly ugly, allowed me to at least play the game on the odd sized screen. (1024x600 if anyone wants to know.)

Other than that, and roguelikes, I don't do much gaming on there. It's great for chat, instant messaging, okay for email (chokes sometimes on the more elaborate web interfaces) and web browsing. Youtube is doable in a pinch, but don't expect great frame rates. Flash is almost entirely a no go on mine. Not sure if yours has the upgraded processor though, that might help things, but I really think it's more of a ram issue in mine which, I think has stayed the same throughout almost all of the EEE products. (1 gb default) I think some of my problems might be helped by switching to a lighter weight distro, but EEEbuntu has worked well enough for me since I switched to it.

[olemars]

OpenTTD might run on it. And that's all you'll ever need.

[quinnr]

Oh yes, already have OpenTTD too

No CD drives.

Gonna look at FreeCol. And FreeCiv. Because both of the non-free ones are awesome.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions

[beorn080]

If you can do a full install to the SD card, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would work well most likely. Not sure though.

[Gimhalos]

With regards to the LiveCD, you can boot it from the SD card if your bios supports it. I've done linux installs from SD before and it works just fine. You can do the same with a flash drive.

There's a bunch of good games that released on Linux through the Humble Indie packs. If you got those while they were available or don't mind paying you can probably run Braid, Machinarium, etc on it, and none of them are too big.

Also Battle for Wesnoth, though it might be pushing it on size.

There's some browser games that aren't terrible, i.e. Kingdom of Loathing.

[Bouchart]

Doom.

[ChairmanPoo]

I have many suggestions in this regard. Been using eee's for the last 3 years

Games that I run under linux  in my 1015 and/or ran in my 1000H

- Battle for Wesnoth
- Pretty much any roguelike barring Tales of Maj'Eyal (older versions do work, though)
- Dominions 3
- Diablo 2 under wine. special effects did not work though.
- Globulation 2
- Cube 1
- Imperialism (wine)
- Dwarf Fortress (ok here: in my 1015N it runs fairly well with a pop of 80-100 and a 2x2. In my 1000H it started to lag hard after 70, but still worked if you didn't mind low fps's in periods of high activity -or alternatively restricting pop to 50-60. Since your processor is even slower, I make no guarantees)
- Warzone 2100
- Shadow Magic under wine ( SLOW MOUSE. I regarded it as too annoying to play that way)
- Unreal World (though I personally think it's boring. the most viable survival strategy is to trade with the wanderers. In particular: to perform amateur brain surgery on them with an axe in return for their belongings)

some I dont suggest but comment on my attempts:

Paradox games (wine): Wont work at all in default resolution. If you manage to stretch your screen (couldn't in ubuntu 10.10, but I can in 11.04) or plug an external monitor they work, but slow.

Freeorion: haven't managed to make it run in either computer.
Spring engine: will likely be slow except for small, simple games. You might be able to play kernel panic. Ran on 1000H, but doesn't on 1015 (different graphic cards accounts for this, I think)

Starcraft: slowmouse problem. This was annoying in shadow magic. In a RTS is a game-killer

Neverwinter Nights 1: allegedly this one can be run natively. I didn't try because on the 1000H it ran slow on windows, and did not expect much better results. Perhaps I ought to experiment again.

Alpha Centauri (wine): barely works. Crashes randomly.

Total war: Never tested on linux, on windows I did not manage to run Medieval 1 at a decent performance on my 1000H. Shogun worked fine though. Maybe worth a try.


EDIT: On the fedora games thing: You don't need a cd to run it. Just run sudo mount -o loop /pathoftheimage /pathofwhereyouwanttomount (I think, check around if it fails), and presto, you have a virtual drive. If you have problems with the console, just install acetoneiso
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK SOCKS.

I didn't actually know what a Spin was. I thought it was just a cd which allowed you to play the games from any linux version.

Still, might be worth it to create a live USB from it.


If it wasn't that humongously big, that is. I'm not about to buy a >4gb stick just to do that. I'd rather install the games one by one.

[quinnr]

With regards to the LiveCD, you can boot it from the SD card if your bios supports it. I've done linux installs from SD before and it works just fine. You can do the same with a flash drive.

There's a bunch of good games that released on Linux through the Humble Indie packs. If you got those while they were available or don't mind paying you can probably run Braid, Machinarium, etc on it, and none of them are too big.

Also Battle for Wesnoth, though it might be pushing it on size.

There's some browser games that aren't terrible, i.e. Kingdom of Loathing.

I love the Kingdom of Loathing, and it works perfectly on the small screen

Also, the computer came with a crappy linux made for Old people, so I changed it with a USB liveCD. COULD do it from an SD card in the future, but I didn't realize the EEE could run SD cards till recently xD.

Diablo 2 and Battle for Wesnoth are both good ideas, I'll have to look into those. Think I played Wesnoth but it was a long time ago. What is Diablo 2 BTW? Abandonware?

[Bouchart]

Diablo 2 is still sold by Blizzard.

[gp1628]

I would also recommend Dominions 3. Its old and ugly and expensive but it JUST WONT DIE. It still gets patched and updated for free. And I still play it almost daily even have having it for years. At least snag the demo and check it out.

Any Linux games list should include it. At least for recognition that it is actually a LINUX game. Its developed on Ubuntu and THEN ported to Windows and Mac. Hence many of the complaints of Win/Mac people about the interface and lack of features (which mean little on linux)