Games for raspbian

[Ed Raket]

Are there games you can apt-get, that work out-of-the-box with raspbian?

[mpthompson]

Many games. Pretty much everything supported in Debian Wheezy. Just be aware that a number of the graphical games are intended to run on faster desktop systems and may perform poorly on the Raspberry Pi. Perhaps others will chime in with specific game recommendations.

[Julian]

ScummVM from the repository works good out of the box. I tried the feeble files and even video playback works (I re encoded the video files a view years ago when the format was not supported by ScummVM so I can't say anything about the original video files). Sadly it only runs in native resolution, scaling (fullscreen) does not work. I read someone was working on that but I haven't heard anything since.

[Ed Raket]

Good to hear! i try'd "scummvm" and that did not work ? (how did it work with Julian...?), but now i will try other games if they work...

[Julian]

I just did a "aptitude install scummvm" and copied over the game files via smb from my pc. I am not using an image tough. I installed the system with the installer form the raspbian website from scratch.

[Ed Raket]

I found out that when i install Scummvm, and enter X by: startx... it works!
But when i enter X by: sudo startx.... it does not work, why is this so?

[tomas_em]

You should try to run ScummVM directly from command line, no X needed. Just enter scummvm Works like a charm, tested lot of games including MonkeyIsland 3. Also OpenTTD works that way. No X - more memory for application ...

[tomas_em]

And dont forget the fuse (fuse-sdl for console based) - ZX Spectrum emulator, works great especially from commandline (fuse-sdl).

[Ed Raket]

And dont forget the fuse (fuse-sdl for console based) - ZX Spectrum emulator, works great especially from commandline (fuse-sdl).

I will surely give this a go, and get more used to the commandline (again... ) it works like a charm without X!

p.s.
never played Monkey3... i just started on Monkey1, and it's a real joy to play it once more after all these years