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* [[Steam]] can be installed on Alpine, although Valve only support using Steam on Ubuntu. | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) Wine] - wine -- It is typically used to play Windows games - You may need to chroot/multiboot as 32-bit Alpine to use 32 bit Windows games. If you use x86_64, you can only run 64 bit Windows programs. | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) Wine] - wine -- It is typically used to play Windows games - You may need to chroot/multiboot as 32-bit Alpine to use 32 bit Windows games. If you use x86_64, you can only run 64 bit Windows programs. | ||
* [https://obsproject.com/ OBS Studio] - obs-studio -- It is used to live stream a gaming session | * [https://obsproject.com/ OBS Studio] - obs-studio -- It is used to live stream a gaming session. | ||
Revision as of 04:35, 4 May 2021
Gaming on Alpine is a thing.
Installing games
sudo apk add micro-tetris
Permissions
To make sure your account is in the games group. You could do.
sudo gpasswd -a name games
Log off then relog back on.
List of games available on Alpine Linux
- AdvanceMAME - advancemame -- Arcade Simulator
- Aisleriot - aisleriot -- Solitaire card games
- DOSBox - dosbox -- DOS-emulator that uses SDL-library
- Frotz - frotz -- Z machine (Infocom interactive fiction) Interpreter
- FlightGear - flightgear -- Flight Simulator
- Freedoom+Chocolate Doom - freedoom, chocolate-doom -- a free Doom game and an engine to run it
- GNU Chess - gnuchess -- Play chess against the computer
- Micro Tetris - micro-tetris -- Uses ANSI escape sequences and can fit in embedded devices
- Minetest - minetest -- An Inspired Minecraft game
- OpenRCT2 - OpenRCT2 -- Re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- OpenTTD - openttd -- A business simulation game
- RetroArch - retroarch -- Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players using the libretro API
- NetHack - Rogue-like dungeon crawler
- SuperTuxKart - Kart racing game with OSS mascots
- Xonotic - xonotic -- A FPS arena game
- Steam can be installed on Alpine, although Valve only support using Steam on Ubuntu.
- Wine - wine -- It is typically used to play Windows games - You may need to chroot/multiboot as 32-bit Alpine to use 32 bit Windows games. If you use x86_64, you can only run 64 bit Windows programs.
- OBS Studio - obs-studio -- It is used to live stream a gaming session.