2009/2/1 Kai Blin kai.blin@gmail.com:
On Sunday 01 February 2009 20:11:33 Seth Shelnutt wrote:
Dan,
As far as games go, off the top of my head there is WoW, and Guildwars. Battlefield 2/2142 both seem good choice. Counter Strike: Source and COD4 are gold rated. Lastly Crysis is gold rated too. There is an issue with punkbuster but that only effects online play.
You do need to take the German youth protection law into account, though. I'd stay away from shooters, I guess.
A lot of the Casual games work (e.g. from Oberon Media and PopCap Games) such as Westward III, Chuzzle, Bejeweled 2 and Peggle, but then again a lot don't :( - the AppDB has an entry for them.
With WoW I spent my free game period downloading the ~8 GB worth of data :(! The other Blizzard titles (Diablo 2, StarCraft and its expansion, Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansion [1]) work.
Other than that, Cepstral SwiftTalker (a text to speech program, with various voices) works flawlessly (if you disable pulseaudio; with pulseaudio it can lock up if you stop then play some text). But then they also have a (command line) Linux version.
[1] I have had it crash sometimes between levels, but haven't had the time to track this down or try the Warcraft 3 save race condition game patch.
- Reece