Game advice for Powerbook G4?

[kevin242]

I have a Powerbook g4, its 1.25ghz, 1gb ram, and it has Leopard installed. I have Aurorafox and webkit and all the hacks installed so leopard runs fast enough so i can browse Facebook, use word, and even do flash reasonably well (900k flv videos stream fine to my laptop from my iMac) of course not all at the same time!!! lol

so now i am thinking, it would be great to have a couple good free games. I played halo to death on my emac before i sold it... so what else ? I like all types of games so anything free or abandon ware would be great. I was just on Macintosh garden but didn't know where to begin. I know other people have asked similar question, but i don't want to spend any money and I don't have classic OS or any desire to install it (if i am installing anything i would do Mint Linux before classic macos, but that wouldn't help for games either).


thank you for any advice!!!

 

[rossmosis]

Super Tux Kart: http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/
Great game with great graphics, I play it at 1920x1200 on my G5 and it looks fantastic.

There's also Open Sonic: http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/home/index.php

macintoshgarden.org also has a lot of Abandonware as well.

 

[MacinDan]

If you like Halo, maybe you'd like Aliens vs. Predator.

 

[alexreich]

Super Tux Kart: http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/
Great game with great graphics, I play it at 1920x1200 on my G5 and it looks fantastic.

There's also Open Sonic: http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/home/index.php

macintoshgarden.org also has a lot of Abandonware as well.

Thanks for that OpenSonic link.. I didn't know about that project

OP I think that OpenArena works on PPC. Not sure, but it is open source and free so you should give it a download and try. There are versions for OS X, Windows, and Linux.

It's based on the released source code of Quake 3.

 

[Starfighter]

Open Sonic was awesome, I couldn't stop playing!

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Quake 1, 2, 3 are awesome. Unreal Tournament.

 

[Starfighter]

And don't forget about the mission packs! I recently tried the packs for Quake 1 for the first time in my life and I quickly realized that it's not just a few new maps - it's full games! And a few new monsters and weapons as well. I had good fun playing through them (Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternety).

Edit: And I played them on a regular Sawtooth without any problems at all so I believe they should run fine on the PowerBook.

 

[estrides]

Nexuiz. Its an awesome shooter based on the Q3 build.