It is well known that the Space Industry fuels innovation in the wrist watch industry, Porn industry funds and fuels the internet, and the Gaming industry drives all important hardware and software innovations.
So let's look at one of these relationships more closely:
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Karl Olausson has just submitted his Bachelor's thesis in history: a study of the post-WW2 Swedish boardgame market. The material he's used is largely interviews with people in our country's boardgame business.
Aw, Linux Journal... I wrote several articles for the magazine back in the nineties, software reviews and such. The OS was new then and it just was amazing to me to be able to do so much without having to resort to MS or Apple products. I still run Linux but I'm not as obsessed as I once was.
Stock Wine does pretty well with my older games, so long as you use a no-CD crack. (No, I don't pirate games, but I don't want the media around where my kids can ruin it. Once was enough.) Heck, a couple games, like "Freedom Force", won't play at all on XP but run fine on Wine.
Even many newer games can play under Wine, if you're willing to look up the tweaks needed. The trick of running a separate instance of X just for the game resolves a large number of problems.
Sim City, Harry Potter (earlier games), Zoo Tycoon. When I can run these, the windows computer gets ... shall we say ... converted.
(Not that I personally play games on the computer, you understand)
I've been meaning to give Wine a try but I've mostly weaned myself off platform-specific software. Until I turned in my work MacBook Pro today, I was regularly using OS X, Linux, and Windows and (with few exceptions) using the same software on all three.
A few months ago I got Dosbox working and had a great time playing ancient DOS games I'm fond of.
BTW Greg, I'm moving closer to your neighborhood; I start a new job in Chicago in November. It's just after the elections so I get some parting shots in against the retarded forces of evil titularly in charge of Texas. My vote won't count any more in Chicago than it does in Austin, but at least I'll have to worry about real problems like corruption and graft instead of contrived idiotic ones like the Texas SBOE's 19th-century battle against evolution and Rick Perry's fondness for the creepy-ass dominionists.