- The Linux Game Tome
The Linux Game Tome is a website which provides a comprehensive list of games for
Linux .History
The site was started by
Tessa Lau in 1995. She collected games from SunSITE's Linux games directories, and classicX11 games - for a database of just over 100 games. [http://www.happypenguin.org/about/ The Linux Game Tome: About The Linux Game Tome ] ]In 1998 maintenance was taken over by Bob Zimbinski who has run the site since that time.cite web
url=http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/01/024201&mode=thread
title = Playing the game of life with Linux Game Tome maintainer Bob Zimbinski
author = Julie Bresnick
work =Linux.com
publisher =SourceForge, Inc.
date = 2001-05-01
accessdate = 2007-08-30]The database now contains well over 1,000 games and game-related items and also now includes a user rating system, active discussion forums, and an IRC channel.
It also provides forums for game developers and has organized several make overs of almost-there Linux games such as
Lincity .See also
*
Linux gaming References
External links
* [http://www.happypenguin.org/ The Linux Game Tome]
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