GameboyEee - Eee PC becomes a Gameboy Advance

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Here's how to convert your Eee into a supersized Gameboy Advance:

• Make sure that you have added the necessary repository on your Eee's Synaptic package manager.
• Open a console window and invoke the command "sudo apt-get install visualboyadvance"
• You will then be prompted that VisualBoyAdvance will be installed, together with two library files.
• Once the installation is done, invoke the command "VisualBoyAdvance -F YourRom.GBA"

And that's it! A supersized emulated Gameboy Advance for your gaming pleasure!

Note: Before you install VisualBoyAdvance, make sure that you have some GBA ROMs ready for use.  Also, your ROM must be saved on the folder where you invoke the last command I mentioned above.

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HOWTO: Install, Configure and Play Doom on the Eee PC

The second first-person shooter I played on the PC was Doom (the first one was Castle Wolfenstein) and I was pleasantly surprised to see that there is a Linux port of this classic game called lxDoom!

After doing a few research, here's a simple how to on installing and playing lxDoom on the Eee PC:

• make sure that "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib" is included in your sources.plist file.
• invoke the Terminal and issue the command "sudo apt-get install lxdoom". This will download and install the lxDoom application on your Eee PC.
• while still in the Terminal window, issue the command "sudo apt-get doom-wad-shareware" to download the .wad file. lxDoom will not run without this file.
• from the terminal issue the command "lxdoom" and the game should start up although the gaming window will be quite small.
• to run lxDoom in full screen, close the lxDoom window and issue the command "lxdoom -width 800 -height 480". This will give you a better resolution.

That's it! Happy Gaming!

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