New version of ShellOn! This is a release candidate: rc1. With these release candidates we are moving towards a final release. The feature set is now frozen for version 3.0. Please send in bug reports!
As a test of ‘just what happens when you do it?’, I’ve set the minumum font size of my browser to 12px. Many sites, including dx13 itself, use font sizes smaller than this. For example, the font used for the tabs above are size 10px. This means that they are now appearing larger than when I originally designed them. Fortunately on this page, it doesn’t make much difference to the layout.
By way of an expansion to my previous couple of posts. Linux in can play games shocker! I can now play many of my favourite games in Linux, thanks to a couple of native ports and Winex. I now have the following games up and running on my Linux install:
Native:
Winex:
I’m quite impressed, and have left Windows behind for now as I can play all my favourite games on Linux now. I have had problems with lots of games with Winex, though. I can’t get either Baldur’s Gate I or Icewind Dale to work, which is a shame. I also can’t play Sim City 3000. However, all in all I am happy with my selection of games.
More Linux gaming goodness. Now, I know many people view Transgaming with dislike, but personally I think their work is useful. I will use native where possible and will buy new games that work on Linux, but for games I own already, WineX is a good thing, imo. To your right, there’s a picture I like the look of: StarCraft, Baldur’s Gate II and Civilization III all on one of my desktops. Now, my PC obviously slows to a crawl with them all going, so they’re only like that for the screenshot!
They all seem to work very well indeed, with little or no problems. StarCraft in particular is just like it is on Windows. All in all, very cool.
Does this rock or what! Check out my screenshot and look at the lovely game of FreeSpace 2, playing in Linux, after just being compiled by yours truly. Major thanks fly out to the guys porting fs2 to Linux and Volition for releasing the source code. This is one of my favourite games, and a port to Linux will rock! It seems to work well, although I can only run it in a window at the moment so it is a little slow. But still, I’m excited!