[Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software Talk - Michael Dorrington : 100% free software gaming: No cheating! - Tuesday 19th January

[Michael Dorrington]

Next month's Manchester Free Software talk will take place on Tuesday -
the 19th January.

Talk
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Graphical computer games[1] are a part of software, even free software.
They are fun and are useful for making the free software user happier.

Michael will be demonstrating 100% free software graphical games on 100%
free software system. There are lots of free software graphical games.
Unfortunately, many are not in a suitable state of completion, are not
good games or require non-free video drivers. The talk will show top
quality free software graphical games that work well on free video drivers.

The style of game demonstrated will include fast paced FPS, racing,
graphically rich arcade, RTS, Point-and-click adventure.

The talk will include which graphics hardware works best in free
software, what features are missing and the settings required on games
to get them running at the required speed.

We welcome lightening talks from people demonstrating their favourite
100% free software graphical games on 100% free software system. Please
contact us at <address@hidden>.

Michael has been using GNU/Linux for many years, has played some
graphical computer games in that time and is currently Chairperson of
Manchester Free Software.

Location
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The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass
O'Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be
located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people
around a little earlier downstairs (probably sampling the food and
drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can't find us. Their
website[2] has full details of how to get there and the fine selection
of food and drink available. The venue also provides wifi.

Workshop Reminder
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Manchester Free Software are holding workshops subject to demand.

With sufficient demand we will run a workshop following on from the talk
 at 19:00 on Wednesday 20th January 2010 at Manchester Digital
Development Agency[3].

More Information
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General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
found on our websites[4][5][6].

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at <address@hidden>.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_video_game
[2]: http://www.thelass.co.uk/
[3]: http://manchesterdda.com/
[4]: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
[5]: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-01-19
[6]: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/