Solar Wolf Game

Solar wolf is a fun spaceship shooter. It is written in Python and uses Pygame. This makes it a perfect match for the XO and it works excellent.
Steps to install and run:
1. Download the Solar Wolf source from http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz

You can use wget http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz in the terminal if you want, or download it on another computer and use USB stick to transfer it over.

2. Put it somewhere you want it. Creating a folder in the /home/olpc directory with the command sudo mkdir /home/olpc/games might be a good idea. Then use the cp command to put the gzipped tarball you downloaded in step one there.

3. Get into whatever folder you put it in, then use the gunzip and tar commands to extract the source. First uncompress with gunzip solarwolf-1.5.tar.gz. After that, tar -xvf solarwolf-1.5.tar will extract all the files and folders.

4. Type python /(path to wherever you placed the files)/solarwolf.py and press enter. For example, if you created the games folder as mentioned in step 2, then the command would be python /home/olpc/games/solarwolf-1.5/solarwolf.py

5. Play

Some notes on ScummVM

This is a pretty cool virtual machine/emulator for the old school SCUMM game engine. That being said, I have to offer a disclaimer. ScummVM is open source, which is cool and compliant with the OLPC Initiative's idea of how software that runs on the XO should be. However, the games you download/have are not open source, they are closed binaries. To anyone with a non-technical background, that means even though they run just fine on the XO, you can't just open them up and edit them. Some people see this as a no-no for any kind of software, but thats just the way most of the software in the world is. There are a couple of legal, freeware released games listed on the ScummVM downloads website.

Anyway, I have it working right and am working on the tutorial on how to install it. I am not Linux guru, and I didn't even find it that hard, it does take some mucking around with the Terminal, but its easy.

First fun

Well, I am starting this so I can post up some of the cool stuff I do with the OLPC. Recently, I have been able to install and run ScummVM, and emulator for some old school games, including one of my all time favorites, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis. I plan to put up the instructions in a bit as soon as I get it all ironed out.