game show trial software / shareware for linux

Completed collection of amusing and addictive patience will give you some hours of great pleasure and real entertainment on your device. Nearly all Solitaire types have been united in a single pack providing you with a tough brain-storming.

Activate your logics and you will even be able to design a patience of your own later. Few dozen of patiences are designed to make you relax and enjoy your playing. A real diamond on Linux!

The rules for every game are described in the Help window of the game. You can access it, as well as other functions through the Main Menu.

If you love patience - this game must be your choice. A great collection of exquisite solitaires taken from all over the world. Choose any of them and you are sure to spend hours playing and enjoying the game. New version adds more games to the collection, giving you more and more pleasure.

The rules are really simple but isnt so easy as it seems at the first glance
to build these patience. Challenge your brains and try to play these games. There is a help describing the rules of every patience.

Watch the demo and play by yourself! Make your logics work and even difficult tasks will seem to be very simple then. You should try to play every game and decide which is the best one.

Also available:

* game autosave on exit
* undo a previous move
* various sound and animation effects

Have Fun!

Bubble Shooter is a great addictive arcade game for Linux combining simple rules with great wealth of combinations and various strategies. Bubble Shooter takes the best from Tetris, Lines, Pool adding new and cool features.

This game is a part of the Bubble Golden Pack.

Installation

Bubble Shooter runs on all major Linux flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others). It is distributed as a gzipped tar archive bshooter.tgz To install and run this game on your Linux system, please do the following:

1) copy the file to a directory of your choice
2) unpack the archive:
tar xzvf bshooter.tgz
3) go into BubbleShooter directory and run the game:
cd BubbleShooter;
bubbles

The trial copy of the program will expire in 14 days. You can obtain a registration key any time during or after the trial period.c

Game Rules

Your goal is to clear all the bubbles from the board, scoring as many points as possible. You shoot at them with more bubbles, and when three or more of the same color come together, they all explode. Point your mouse to where you want the next bubble to go (the arrow at the bottom will indicate that direction), and click to fire the shot.

The more bubbles blow up at one shot, the increasingly more points you gain (six ones at one shot is better than two three-bubble shots). Besides, those bubbles that fell apart from the rest will explode too. It is well worth trying to arrange such avalanches, as they will give you ten times more points than ordinary bursts.

If your shot fails to detonate any bubbles, you get a foul, and after you make a few such mistakes, a new line of bubbles appears at the top. The number of misfires allowed before bubbles will advance again changes from five to zero, then to back five and so on. It is shown in the bottom left corner by the number of bubbles; those bubbles lay in small dips - their number shows how many mistakes will be allowed next time. Various skill levels differ by the number of shots that you are allowed to fire without success.

One more important rule: if you shoot out all the bubbles of some color, say red, no more red bubbles will appear on the board. This would ease things considerably. However, after that every time you use up your silver balls, *two* new lines will appear. Two colors out - three lines, and so forth. New lines will also pop out right after you shoot out a color.

There can be no draw in this game, either you clean all the bubbles off, or they move all the way down on you. No compromise.

Do not forget to send your best result to the online tournament - this is done from the TOP SCORES window.

Be prepared that this game will keep you busy for quite a while.

Good luck!

Cedega, TransGamings flagship Linux portability product, allows hundreds of Windows games to run on Linux seamlessly and transparently, right out of the box. With Cedega installed on a computer running Linux, users can simply insert their favorite Windows game CD, then install and play that game just as they would on a Windows system. Cedega can run hundreds of top tier titles on Linux, including blockbuster hits such as BattleField 2, Dungeon Siege 2, Madden 2006, Half Life 2, World of WarCraft, City of Villains, WarCraft III and Star Wars Galaxies, just to name a few.
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Cedega works by directly loading a Windows program into memory on a Linux system and linking it to a Linux-optimized version of the Win32 APIs. TransGamings Cedega implements common multimedia Windows APIs such as Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound and many others by mapping them to Linux equivalents like OpenGL, X11, and the OSS or ALSA sound APIs. Cedega is the culmination of many years of effort on these APIs. The TransGaming Teams knowledge of APIs such as DirectX is probably second only to Microsofts.
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Cedega also provides an easy to use interface to manage the games installed on a Linux system, as well as the options that can be selected for each title. Unlike how games are installed on a Windows system, Cedega installs each game into its own separate environment, thereby ensuring that the new game can never interfere with previously installed titles. Removing a game is just as easy - instead of a complex and error prone uninstall process, the game environment can simply be deleted without affecting other installed games.
Also unlike Windows, Cedega allows the user to specify that a game should run in its own Window, instead of taking over the whole screen. Want to keep a window open on your favorite massively multiplayer game while you search the web? With Cedega, doing so is just a click away!
Getting Cedega
Cedega is available on a subscription basis through TransGamings website. Subscribers get access to the latest Cedega releases including regular hotfixes and updates, access to both email and web-based support from TransGamings professional staff, posting access to TransGamings user forum, and the right to vote on what TransGamings Cedega team should work on for future releases.
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Version restrictions:
- 14 days limited DEMO

I really like lyraes GSM Beryl Theme http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/GSM?content=
which is a port of GSM VS by akka.
GSM Amarok themes is a Superkaramba theme to go with it. Make sure your cd art preview is set for 150px.
Enhancements:
- Added 2nd version with solid brown.
- Both with different seeker bar image.
- Click area on Artist activates Amaroks OSD and click on cover art brings up playlist.

Absolutists Mahjong has four variants that make the game stand out among the others.Play Classic or Shuffle game, Word Mahjong or Math Mahjong. Its an endless game for the finite life.

The main task of the game is performing reverse engineering of the pyramid of tiles. Simultaneously the player should remove two identical tiles.You can select tile layout or tile set according to your liking. Specially selected music will tie you to the game!

Game Rules

The goal of Mah Jong game is to remove all the tiles from the board. Choose
pairs of the same tiles and they will disappear. A tile can be removed if at
least one of its sides is opened. There are several variants of tile layouts
that you can choose, or you can create your own one using the Editor.
Also you can pick skins of tiles. There are two skins available for Mah Jong.



There are 4 game modes:



Classic Mah Jong


You have to remove tiles from the board. Not only pairs of the same tiles can
be removed, there are also two groups of equal tiles that can be removed in
pairs with each other.



Word Mah Jong


You have to collect words form letters by removing pairs of them. At the top
of the board, some possible variants of words are shown, and you can see a word you are collecting. For every word you get a bonus - 100 points for each letter.



Math Mah Jong


You have to build mathematical expressions by removing pairs of tiles, and if
expression is correct you will get a bonus - 100 points per symbol. There is a
"Clear" button in this game that lets you delete an expression.



Word Mah Jong and Math Mah Jong has reshuffle button that can be used for 3 times.



Shuffle Mah Jong


The rules are classical but tiles reshuffle automatically if there is no moves
left. Reshuffling are made for 3 times per game.





The main features that you obtain in registered game version:


- 4 game modes: Classic, Word, Math and Shuffle Mah Jong

- Editor - you will be able to create your own layouts

- AutoSave option - youll be able to quit the game without losing it

- "Buy Me" nag-screen is not disturbing you any longer

- Free updates

- Your best results can be published on our site in the Internet



Have fun!!!



The game runs on major Linus flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others)

Adaptive Poker Texas Holdem poker game, where the computer learns from you.

Adaptive Poker is a complete Texas Holdem style poker.

It allows for up to 10 individual players, and has casino-style options. It also has computer opponents that can adapt to your playing style.

Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game.
You send swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy.
Main features:
- its arcade action risk with planets!
- anyone can play - only takes 30 seconds to learn
- multi-player network game for up to 12 players with teams
- 15 different single player missions against 7 different computer players
- attack planets with thousands of swarming ships!
- short battles, epic warfare - only 5 minutes per round
- net ranking of all net players
- good times guaranteed!
Enhancements:
- This release includes a complete overhaul of the "single player" portion of the game.
- The game now includes 18 mods, including ThirdMissions (advanced strategy missions), GnipNuke (a mission where you can nuke planets), Symmetry (symetrical maps), Map Editor, and quite a few more.