SuperGamer Live DVD
What I Liked Most About SuperGamer
I really enjoyed having so many games right at my fingertips and with so little configuration problems. It’s nice to not have to take the time to go and find Linux games. Having them all included by default adds a measure of ease and comfort that isn’t necessarily present in other desktop Linux distributions. It’s a real time saver to simply boot into SuperGamer and start playing even if you don’t opt to install it on your system.
On top of that I was very pleased to find the SuperGamer desktop quite usable for other things besides games. There was plenty of non-game software to use so that users do have the option of being productive with SuperGamer as well as just having a good time gaming.
And it was quite a pleasant to surprise to realize that my Macbook Pro and iMac worked pretty well as Linux gaming systems.
Problems & Headaches
The worst problem I had with Super Gamer was sound. I could not get sound at all on my iMac when running Super Gamer as a Live CD. I opened a terminal and changed to root then ran alsaconf but that didn’t do anything. I tried Super Gamer on my Macbook Pro and didn’t get sound by default either. So I did the same thing and ran alsaconf as root. After that I briefly had sound while playing a YouTube video but then lost it and couldn’t get it back.
I’m not sure what the problem was with the sound but it’s a shame since I had no trouble at all with Super Gamer when it came to graphics.
As I noted above, not all of the games included in SuperGamer are the full versions. For example, you won’t get the full version of Unreal Tournament 2004, you’ll just have the demo. That’s fine though as you’ll still get a chance to play the demo and get a taste of the game.
Other than that I didn’t have much to complain about when using the Live CD version of Super Gamer.
(4 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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Well, I’m not a gaming fan, and I have also never created a dual layer DVD – though I have used a few of them from Linux Format (UK) mags and they are great. That’s where I first got to try Virtualbox OSE and it convinced me that I was “missing out on something”.
I have used Vector Linux before, and so has my eight year old son, who would probably be the target if I were to give a distro like this a try. I might be more inclined to go to a fast order DVD shop though and just plunk down a few bucks (as long as it wasn’t more than a few bucks) to get this distro.
Chances are that I will pass on this one since it just isn’t my style. You did, however, Jim, make this an interesting review, interesting enough to make me wonder, “Am I missing out on something?” ;-) Well, I’ll resist, but it was a good review, thanks!
“won’t get the full version of Ultimate Tournament 2004″
Should that not read “Unreal Tournament”? and, although I like th econtent of your interview, I don’t think you did it justice. Having no sound on 2 machines in a gaming distro is more than a little bug. I would have rather you’d worked out how to fix it and posted that as well.
Homer wrote:
Thanks for catching that goof on UT, Homer. It’s pretty funny since I used to play it all the time. I think I had a brain fart when I was writing that part of the review.
As far as the sound goes, I was not able to get it working. I did try but it may have been a problem with the macs, I’m just not sure.
Brian Masinick wrote:
Brian,
Well it might be worth downloading it if you can burn a dual layer DVD. But if you really aren’t interested in gaming then this is probably a remastered distro you can pass on.
But I’m sure there are some gamers that will like it.
Heh, heh. Yeah, good point dragonmouth. It’s cutting edge and retro at the same time.
Would an 8GB Flash drive and Unetbootin work for this?
I thought this was based on Puppy when I saw those text config screens, the only place I’ve seen those in the last 4 years.
Monty
Why make this a dual-layer exclusive? I’m interested but would rather have a volume 1 and volume 2 that I can burn straight away, without having to presumably buy a single DL disc from a local computer shop at an inflated price (don’t want to buy bulk).
The author has limited the popularity of his release.