From: Kendric Beachey <ak@kc.rr.com> Subject: Cheap Linux games at Micro Center Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:11:59 -0600 Message-Id: <01033012042501.03606@ak.kc.rr.com>
Just in case anyone is interested in such things...
I went to Micro Center (roughly 93rd and Metcalf) today and had a look at
their Linux software section. They've got quite a bit of stuff, including
VMWare express ($99) and Loki's entire catalog of games. For whatever
reason, they have REALLY marked down the games. Sim City 3000 and probably
the Quake games are still kind of spendy, but everything else was under $30.
Most stuff was under $20. I picked up Eric's Ultimate Solitaire for $10.
On a related note, Loki's website has a demo for almost all their games.
They have one "demo launcher" app you can download, which will explain,
configure and launch all their demos. It also comes with their update
utility which will check the website for any available updates, download them
and install them. If you're like me and $20 is still a lot to spend on a
game before you know if you like it, this is a good way to find out.
-- Kendric Beachey ak@kc.rr.comDVD decryption in seven lines of Perl code: $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=( $m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16 -2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h =5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$ d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d8^($f=$t&($d12^$d4^ $d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e8^($t&($g=($q=$e14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^ (($h=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
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