[XCSSA] November 19th XCSSA Meeting: Gaming Night! (7pm SAC Nail Tech Center)

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Hey all!

Well, at the suggestion of Luis from the mail list, to looks like November is 
going to be our "LAN Gaming and Game Demo Night"!  First up will be an intro 
demo of the XBox 360 and its capabilities by Robert Rusk, followed by a 
second demo of the Linux OSS multiplayer "thinking man's shoot-em-up", 
Scorched3D by Tweeks.  If any other gamer demo folks show up, we'll give each 
of them a short demo time also.  After the short demos, the games will 
commence!

More info below...

XBox-360 Demo By: Robert Rusk
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 Robert will be bringing in his XBox-360 to show some of it's capabilities and 
hot new titles, including: 
* "Quake IV" - with a bonus disc that has "Quake II" so you get two games 
   in one.
* "Rumble Roses XX" - female based pro wrestling (sounds PG13, has a 
   game rating "M"ature).
* "Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" - ("Star Wars: The Complete Saga" 
   is supposed to come out this Xmas -RR)
* "Hitman: Blood Money" - (The movie based on this franchise comes out 
   two days after the meeting -RR).

Robert's presentations are always comprehensive, and authoritative as he does 
a lot of writing for the gaming scene zines. 


Scorched3D Demo and LAN Gaming By: Tweeks
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Scorched3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the 
classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games". Scorched 3D adds 
amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. 
Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and 
Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems. 

After Tweeks' short demo, Tweeks and the SAC staff are going to have a private 
LAN switch, cables, and power strips set up and available to "hook up to" to 
play some rounds of this highly addictive, multi-player, media rich, open 
source, modern classic game. (see screen shots here). 

If you plan on playing, you will need:
* A gaming machine with nice graphics card (ATI or nVidia, w/working driver ;)
* GL rendering enabled (try running "glxgears -info" to verify it's working) 
* Version 41.1 of Scorched3D installed and running (tweeks will have the RPM
  and tarball on hand if you need to install it there) 
* Headphones, mouse, power, and other needed cables might be useful (SAC will 
  have CAT5/network cables on hand)


Hope To See you there! 

Where: SAC NTC (http://xcssa.org/#MAP)
When:  Nov 19th, 7pm(ish)
Room:  025 (in basement)

Cheers!

Tweeks
XCSSA.ORG President