Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’

World of Warcraft on Ubuntu – How I did it.

Posted: 19th November 2007 by John in Personal
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I’ve been playing World of Warcraft (WoW) on my Ubuntu Linux machine for quite a while now, and I have found it to be every bit as playable as it was on a Windows machine. Because of my successes with it (after learning some tricks to bring about that success) I decided I would post [...]

Dont Shoot! I’m with the science team….

Posted: 6th December 2006 by John in Personal
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I wrote yesterday about a particular series of games that captured my heart and mind when I was younger. The X-Wing series of games came out in a wonderful period of PC Gaming. It was back in the day when LucasArts could do no wrong (ok, perhaps Rebel Assault 2 was doing wrong, but I [...]

I’m a gamer. In particular, I’m a PC Gamer. I grew up in the 80′s and 90′s, when computer gaming was in it’s infantcy, and adolecense. I owned a first generation 3d graphics card, back when it was 3dfx. I went through the process of making and tweaking DOS Boot disks to get games to [...]