This is only my experience downloading and installing Steam and Valve games like Counterstrike 1.6 and TFC on Linux. Your experience may vary.
Here’s what you’ll need:
A purchased copy of Half Life Platinum (if you’re into the old versions of Counter Strike and Team Fortress Classic – still going strong with thousands of gamers on 24/7) [...]
Gaming console emulation on PC is nothing new. An emulator is a program that mimics the hardware and firmware from a gaming console (such as the Super Nintendo), to play roms. Roms are just computerized copies of console games. For PSX and other CD-based systems Roms are called ISOs. This guide is just my personal [...]
If you’ve switched to Ubuntu (as I have) or any other Linux distribution, you may consider the following free (and in most cases open-source) games, as they’ve been favorites of mine for some time now.
1. Tremulous
Tremulous is an addictive first person shooter (FPS) that has countless gamers on at all hours from both the Linux [...]
ImageMagik is something nearly all developers can all appreciate. It’s a little software suite that allows you to create or modify batch images on-the-fly from PHP, C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and several other languages. It can be tricky getting used to, but I’ve located a guide that explains the basics. Once reading through this, [...]
This is a bit advanced, but the outcome is very cool. This process takes a black and white (or color) image, lets you scribble in some colors, and the colorization application accurately fills in and shades the rest. It can even do animated clips, as shown below.
More examples can [...]
For those of you not familiar with the GIMP image editor., it’s a powerful cross-platform image editor licensed under the GNU GPL. Out of the box, GIMP is pretty powerful, but it can parallel (or as some might claim – exceed) the usability of Photoshop once you add some community-created plugins or scripts.
In 2006 a [...]
I stumbled upon an interesting thread on stencilrevolution.com
Check it out. It outlines a process to inexpensively “tattoo” your clothes with a stencil and some bleach. The outcome can be really neat:
Quote from the thread:
“ This Japanese Koi design was created specifically for this tutorial. (my original drawing in fig. 1.) I wanted to create and [...]