Gaming on Netbooks

These two videos show the SDL port of Quake and a free version of Doom being played on the Ben NanoNote pocket computer. They were created by TUXBRAIN, a company based in Spain, that sells products based on open source software, including the Ben NanoNote and several other devices in their online shop.

This video is a short demonstration of the free multiplayer first person shooter Urban Terror being played on System76's Starling netbook. The netbook which comes preloaded with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 was upgraded to the latest Karmic Koala release.

This video by khanh demonstrates Final Fantasy VII being played on a basic ASUS Eee PC 701 running Xandros Linux without CPU overclocking or hardware upgrades. To play Final Fantasy he installed the Linux package of the pSX emulator and did some additional tweaking as described in the blog post Final Fantasy VII on the Asus Eee PC running pSX for Xandros.

I can't say how much time I spent playing Pirates on the Amiga but it sufficed to know any Caribbean city that appears in the game, their distances in miles, and how many days it takes to reach one from the other in a Merchantman, Fast Galleon, or Pinnace.
The video shows Sid Meier's Pirates being played on the Acer Aspire One netbook with an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, and an Intel GMA 945 graphics processor.

Maybe Freddie Mercury would turn over in his grave hearing Queen's Mr. Fahrenheit Don't Stop me Now as the background music for a video demonstrating Firefox and Quake III Arena running on an Acer Aspire One Linux netbook. Certainly Quake addicts will enjoy the fact that they can play their favorite game on a Linux machine anywhere anytime.