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Hello Legacy OS 2 users and those with an old Pentium III PC,
Today see the release of Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer.
Please download and enjoy!
If your PC is known to be compatible with Legacy OS 2 and you try Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer can you post back that you had a successful boot up and it works.

Now Over 20,000 Downloads

Other highlights is the update to Opera 12 with excellent HTML5 support for great Web Surfing and the new look for this release and upcoming releases.

While this release focuses mainly on Games, With Apps like Amarok, Abiword and Gnumeric this is still a very usable OS for every day computing.

MD5SUM = c3aeeed0a8587b0b5264186a4031785f LOS2.1GAMER.iso

Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/legacyoslinux/files/

Not the actual machine I'll be running this on but......... Legacy OS 2.1 live pfix=ram on my main Athlon XP box.Booted and working.
Using Xvesa because of the Nvidia card but everything appears to be working.Running in ram........ cd ejected.
Will try on some more appropriate hardware in a few.

Hello James C,
Thanks for confirming Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer boots.

A bit more appropriate hardware........ sound and display working on initial boot.... a couple of clicks for the internet.Looks good.

Athlon XP 2000+
512 mb ram
no hdd
Via VT8375 ProSavage graphics

Will drag out something to try the installer on..... no hdd on this box.

Hi John,

I'm posting from it now, live. It boots but one thing I can't do so far is run Flash on it (for Youtube etc).

Good effort anyway; I like the 2 series Pups and it's good that someone's still releasing a derivative based on one.

Hello Colonel Panic,
Strange? I can confirm flash works. With ever increasing content and HD being put in web pages and the fact that the 10 series of flashplayer is the last version compatible with Legacy OS 2 series some flash content won't play.
I've never had trouble with Youtube and watch regularly TV shows on a Pentium 4 PC. Testing on my trusty Pentium III shows Youtube with dropped frames but the sound is perfect. Legacy OS 2 is my main OS full time. I live it breath it improve it. LOL!

This is why 2 more releases of Legacy are under development and are planned for release in the coming months.

Hi again John,

Is your copy of Legacy 2.1 installed to your hard drive? Mine isn't, and I again tried to get Flash working on my machine and sadly, no go. All I got was a black rectangle instead

I should perhaps add at this point that I'm reluctant to install a distro to my hard drive because Grub install doesn't always work properly, and you can end up (as I have on several occasions in the past) not only not being able to access the distro you've just installed but also the others already on your hard drive,

Hello Colonel Panic,
I've had success using flash with both live and installed. 90% of Legacy OS usage is with the system installed to Hard Drive.

john biles wrote:Hello Colonel Panic,
I've had success using flash with both live and installed. 90% of Legacy OS usage is with the system installed to Hard Drive.

Hi again John.

I can watch Youtube videos just fine on Legacy OS4 Mini and the last version of OS 2, both live and installed; I could even watch them on Teenpup (before it was renamed Legacy). It's just this one that seems not to be able to play them.

Look, if it's just me reporting this problem don't worry about it; it's not worth troubleshooting just for one user. It might be just a quirk of my machine. Thanks for your time anyway.

Hello Colonel Panic,
To make way for the games I removed a lot of apps. Nothing was removed that should affect flash and Youtube. If other releases work on the same machine then in all reality Gamer should too. Very strange.

Been delayed because I forgot about the "too much ram and the installer won't work" thing. Couldn't install.....pulled out some ram down to 256 Mb and then no problem.
First, flash is working here. Youtube videos play ...no problem.Actually everything appears to be working.

800 Mhz
256 Mb ram
1.0 Gb swap

Hello again John,

I tried Legacy 2.1 again and Flash still didn't work, so I cheated I installed Opera 11.11 from the pet and Flash works just fine in it.

-CP

duplicate post

Download from Softpedia.

" Legacy OS 2 Gamer, a distribution based on Puppy Linux that is aimed at very old PCs, is now at version 2.1.

The developers has made great efforts in incorporating applications that still work on very old hardware, such as Pentium III. "


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Legacy-O ... 6742.shtml

Chris.

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Hello simargl,

Here's the list of included games in Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer. Just remember games were chosen with the most chance of being playable on Pentium III Hardware. Sadly many great Linux games like Tuxkart etc ran too slow so were left out.

If you know of other games that may be suitable that aren't included please let me know.

atomix 2.14.0
biniax v2
blackjack 2.8.1
Enigma v1.01
gTans v1.1
IceBreaker v1.2.1
Kbackgammon 2.6.0
kbattleship 1.1
kball 2004
KCheckers 0.6.0
Khangman 1.6
knetwalk 1.0
kmahjongg 0.7.9
kmines 2.1.9
Kolumns 0.3.1
kobo deluxe 0.4pre9
kolf 1.1
Ksudoku 0.4
knights 0.6
kpat 2.2.2
kpoker 1.1
Ri-Li v2.0.0
blinKen 0.1
frozen-bubbles 1.0.0
groundhog 1.4
Gnono 0.0.3
gtkpool 0.5.0
gweled 0.7
Lieutenant sKat 1.0
lbreakout2 2.6beta-5
Abuse-SDL 0.7.0
Battle for Wesnoth 0.9.0
Ceferino ver 0.97.5
Circus Linux 1.0.3
Classic Invaders
crimson fields 0.5.1
csmash-0.6.6
digger-20020314
dodgindiamonds 0.2.1
easysok-0.3.5
gav 0.9.0
geki2-2.0.3
geki3-1.0.3
gravitywars v1.102
heroes 0.21
luola 1.2.6
madbomber 0.2.4
maelstrom 3.0.6.n
methane 1.4.5
mirrormagic 2.0.2
moagg 0.17
moon-lander 1.0pre1
mures 0.5
maze of galious v0.62
njam 1.25
pipepanic 0.1.3
prboom 2.4.5
rafkill 1.2.0
rockdodger 0.6.0a
sdlroids 1.3.4
shaaft-0.5.0
shisen 1.5.1
simutrans64 0.84.16.4
schafkopf 0.6
skijump 0.2.0
supertux 0.1.2
tecnoballs 0.92-2.1
toppler 1.1.1.
trophy 1.0.6
tumiki fighters 0.2
uxtank 2.0
xpired 1.22
xrally 1.1
xlogical 2001
xsoldier 1.3
descent2 0.2.5
Dukenukem 3D v1.5
holotz castle
kpacman 0.3.2
maelstrom 3.0.6N
maze of galious v0.62
metal blob solid 1.05
pingus 0.7.0
powermanga 0.9
quake 2000
starfighter 1.1
armagetron v0.2.5.2
xrick 021212
blockrage 2001
kblackbox 0.3.0
kreversi 1.7.1
ksmiletris 3.5.4
ksokoban 0.4.2
kenolaba 1.06b
kolor lines 1.1
samegame 0.51
bumprace 1.46
oxygene 1.1.1
tuxpuck v0.8.2
xtux 2000

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Also :

- numptyphysics
- freeciv
- xrick
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Hello sc0ttman,
I'd never come across Numptyphysics so thank you.

As a reward here's the game. LOL!
Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/legacyoslinux/files/
Look in the "Legacy OS 2 Series Extra Packages" folder for game.

As is normal for all Legacy OS Package installs download the tar.gz, click on it, extract to / and reload the menu (Applications > Accessories > Misc > Reload menu)

Looks like a great game!

this may be outside the scope of your project but adding a few emulators can give you thousands more games...

Dosbox with dbgl provides a really easy way to play DOS games - "Another World/Out of this World" is a great DOS game... Also Civ II, many others...

But like many DOS games, they are better on the amiga. For amiga you can use various versions/forks of UAE...
There are some packages here: ppm.scottjarvis.com (see Emulation section)..

..some of these old games are honestly classic, very playable, challenging and great fun.

BTW, 'cave story' is still one the best little platformers on linux , you can get a patched/updated version at akita.scottjarvis.com .. And I do recommend xrick...

EDIT: I forgot, XSok (xsokoban) is a classic puzzler, it's TINY, very challenging, has many levels, and includes a level editor (well, can edit the level files, anyway!).

Also in the akita repo, gnu-go/cgoban are popular, old chinese board game progs... And xboard is a good chess frontend, forget the backend I used (fairymax?), but it's the lightest, and it's included in the xboard .pet. (i think)..

just for completeness, and so you dont have to trawl through them yourself, here are all games in the akita repo:

(you can search the livepackages5a.txt file in the repo for descriptions, sizes, etc)

akita_games-0.1 <--- includes many little games, inc good cli tetris
assaultcube-1104-akita
assaultcube_reloaded-240-akita
biniax-1.2 <--- odd but good puzzler
braincurses-0.5b-i486-akita <---- cli mastermind thingy
BubbleSnooker-1.2-akita
capitalism_0.5.1-i486 <--- monopoly board game
cartoon_fighter-1.1-akita
cave_story-1.2-i486-akita
cboard-0.6-i486
cboard_DOC-0.6-i486
cgoban-1.9.14-i486-akita
cgoban_DOC-1.9.14-i486-akita
dbgl073-i486-akita
digger-20020314-i486-akita <--- classic, but smaller versions are around
dosbox-0.73-akita
dudusdl_0.1.3-1_i386-akita
eDuke-1.4.0-i486-akita
epic_inventor-i486-akita
epsxe-1.6.0-x86-akita
epsxe-1.6-akita
fairymax
flash-chess
freeciv-2.3.4-i486
freeciv-2.3.3-i486
freeciv_DEV-2.3.4-i486
freeciv_DEV-2.3.3-i486
freeciv_DOC-2.3.4-i486
freeciv_DOC-2.3.3-i486
freeciv_NLS-2.3.4-i486
freeciv_NLS-2.3.3-i486
freecol-i486-akita
freecol_DOC-i486-akita
freecraft-1.20-static-20120816
freecraft_data-1.20
gens-2.15.5-akita
gens_gs_r7-i486-akita
gens_gs_r7_DOC-i486-akita
gnuchess-6.0.1-i486
gnuchess_DOC-6.0.1-i486
gnugo-3.8-i486
gnugo_DOC-3.8-i486
greyhounds
gsoko-0.4.2-akita
gsudoku-akita
gtkatlantic_0.4.2-3_i386
jester-1.0
JNKPlat-20100420-akita
king_arthurs_gold-190-akita
lbreakout-010315-i486
liboil-0.3.16-q1
lugaru-rev269-akita
lxdream-0.9.1-i386-akita
nethack-3.4.3
newton_adventure-1.3-akita
numptyphysics_0.2-akita
opensonic-0.1.4
openttd-r22274-i686
openttd-r22274-locales
operarena-2006-akita
pacman_cli-1.2-i486-akita <--- good little pacman game
pacman_X11-1.0-i386-akita
pcsxr-1.9.92-1-i386-akita
pingus-0.7.2-akita
pipepanic-0.1.3-i486-akita <--- very addicitive to beat score (i think!)
pSX-1.13-akita
quarry-0.2.0-i486-akita
racer-054
rocksndiamonds-3.2.3-akita <--- digger clone
rubix-1.03
Scrabble3D-i386
scratch-1.4.0.1-i386
seahaven
seatris-0.0.14-i486
seven_kingdoms-2.14.3-akita
snes9x-1.53-akita-i486
snes9x_NLS-1.53-akita-i486
soulfu-1.5.2
starfighter-1.2-i486-akita
starfighter_DOC-1.2-i486
stormbaancoureur
supertuxcart-0.6.2-i386-akita
tileracer-0.702-0-akita
touchmegames-0.2.5-i486
ultimatestunts-0741
vbam-svn451-1-i386-akita <--- gameboy/gbadvance... mario golf, advance wars, many other classics!
xarchon-0.5.0-10.2-akita
xasteroids_5.0-17_i386
xboard-4.5.2a-i386
xemeraldia-0.4.3-i486
xgalaga-0.8.1-akita
xinvaders-2.1.1-i486
xrick-021212-akita
xsc-1.5-i486
xshisen-1.51-i486
xsok
xsoldier-1.4
xsudoky-1.0.6-i486
ysflight
zepsdreamland-1.02
zombiegrinder-323-akita