![]() There is a lot to like about Sparkylinux Gameover Edition with its abundance of games, choices of emulators and the fact it comes with Steam, PlayOnLinux and Dosbox pre-installed. SparkyLinux has a joystick calibration tool to enable you to configure your joysticks but it might be worth reading my article about Retrogaming with Linux as it provides advice on how to set up controllers for older games. The APTus installer simply asks for the name of the program you wish to install which is great if you know the name of the program but not so good if you don't.įortunately Synaptic is also included which provides a decent search facility. Last week when I reviewed Play Linux I suggested that maybe there wasn't enough to make it stand out on its own as yet but the Gameover Edition of SparkyLinux cannot be accused of the same thing. ![]() Steam is obviously included, as is PlayOnLinux. Radiotray lets you choose to listen to a large number of online web radio stations by choosing them from a menu linked to the LXDE panel. ![]() I like the fact that Radiotray was included. There are no office applications, so you can't even be tempted to do any work and the graphics, audio and video applications are kept to the bare minimum. This distribution is aimed at gaming and therefore other than games and emulators there isn't all that much to SparkyLinux. Virtualboy Advance (Gameboy Advance Emulator).Tali, Teeworld, Tennix, Tetravex, Tetzle, Transcend.Scorched 3D, Secret Maryo Chronicles, Slime Volley, Snake 4, Snowballz, STEAM, Stella, Sudoku, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, Swell Foop.PCSX (Playstation Emulator), Performous, Pingus, PlayOnLinux (GUI for WINE).Nestopia (NES Emulator), Netpanzer, Neverputt, Neverball, Nibbles.Maelstrom, Mahjongg, Mastermind, Megaglest, Mines, Minestest, Mokomaze, Monsterz, Moonlander.LBreakout 2, Lights Off, Liquid War, LTris.Gnome Video Arcade (GUI for MAME), Gnubik, Gnugo, GTKAtlantic, Gunroar,.Five or more, Flare, FooBilliard, Four in a row, Freecraft, Freedroid, Frozen Bubble, Funny Boat.DesMuMe (Nintendo DS Emulator), Desura, Dosbox (DOS Emulator).Balder 2D, Barrage, Battle For Wesnoth, Battle Tanks, Berusky, Billiard-GL, Biniax 2, Black Box, Blobby Volley 2, Bloboats, Blow Wars, Blockout 2, Brain Party, Bygfoot.Airstrike, Alien Blaster, Amphetamine, Armagetron Advanced, Ascii Jump, Asylum, Atomix.USB Stick Formatter (Formats USB drives).USB Image Writer (Writes ISO images to USB drives).I will try and cover as much as possible though. In this section I would normally list all the applications for a distribution but with the Gameover edition it isn't possible. I mentioned in my previous review of SparkyLinux that the installer isn't as straight forward as some of the others that are available.Īs with the Razor-QT version of SparkyLinux, Flash works without a hitch and MP3s are playable with no extra steps required. I was however afforded more time to test this week's distribution which is SparkyLinux Gameover Edition and that is the topic of today's review.īefore I start though I wanted to mention another article you might be interested in which looks at 5 of the best games emulators for Linux that I wrote for. This week has been somewhat challenging as my internet connection let me down once more. The intentions of Play Linux are clear and that is to be the best gaming Linux distribution around. Last week I wrote a review about a Linux distribution designed for gamers called Play Linux. For those of you wanting to run DOS games using DOSBox on its own there is a guide for that as well. Being able to play all the games you want using one application as a launchpad has to be a good thing. The importance of using PlayOnLinux for this purpose comes into play when you also want to run classic Windows games within PlayOnlinux. I followed up that article with a guide showing how to run DOS games using PlayOnLinux. I started off by looking at retrogaming in general within Linux including the options available such as where to get games and how to set up controllers. Over the past month or so I have been looking at classic gaming from an Everyday Linux User's point of view.
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