Netbook games.

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**George Spiggott**

I got a Samsung N140 recently (during the recent religious festival) and I'm looking around for games that will run on it. Does anyone know of any classics that do?

Spec: 1.6 Ghz Processor, 1GBytes RAM (may upgrade to 2GB), Graphics spec quite low. Windows 7 Starter. 150GB+ of spare HD space.

So far I've been running my Amiga Emulator (Chaos Engine, Xenon, Turrican II , Alien Breed II), MAME (Having a little difficulty with that) Grand Theft Auto 1 and the Teardown Spacehulk game.

Does anyone know of a SNES or Megadrive emulator that allows keyboard as a control option. ZSNES doesn't seem to.

I've heard GTA 3 will run on it but I'm sure the game needs the disc in the drive to play and the N140 doesn't have a CD drive. I have an external DVD drive that I'm willing to install from but I want to be able to play the games on the move (on the train and such).

Ideally the games suggested should not require excessively dexterous fingers or complex 3D engines.

Thanks

**Cheese Elemental**

I use a GBA emulator on my netbook, mainly to play Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics. I also have Doom, which I downloaded. It's a bitch to control with the touch-pad, but still good fun.

**George Spiggott**

Which emulator do you use? Do you have a link?

**Cheese Elemental**

I use Visualboy Advance, which I've had for about four years now. Let's see if I can find a link...

Official site

**George Spiggott**

Thanks, I'll check that out.

**Leigen_Zero**

ZSNES has keyboard support (in fact it's easier to do this than joystick support)

Theme Hospital runs pretty well on my Eeepc 1000H (and i'm running linux!)

I would also recommend a game called keeperfx, its a fan-done rehash of the original dungeon keeper, nothing has really changed except for it works on windows 7.

Although I will recommend you ditch 7 for xp/linux if your savvy with it, netbooks just aren't meant for the kind of resources 7 will use up, may improve your performance greatly.

**George Spiggott**

Thanks for those tips. I'll have another look at ZSNES.

The plan is to dump Windows 7 for Google Chrome as soon as it comes out and I can source an install disc for Windows 7 (in case I change my mind).

**dreadlord**

I've run a lot of games on my stock Eee PC 1000HA. So far the most graphics intensive games have been Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and Black and White (the first one). Both run well enough to be "playable." I had to alter the directx settings to get San Andreas to run properly but now it is flawless.

**nintendoeats**

haha, this is always fun. Netbooks all have more or less the same specs, so its almost like a really crappy console.

GTA III will work (quite playably), but you need to rip the PLAY disc and mount it. You need to do this (no cracks) because it has the radio station files on it. If you start ripping discs and using cracks, there is a great deal to be done with a netbook.

In other news Half-Life 2 is playable. Not great, but it functions. that is about the pinnacle of Netbook gaming, thanks to a really efficient engine.

Also check out www.gog.com. They have a wide variety of cheap downloadable classics.

If you like adventure games there are an infinite number of options, from sam & max: hit the road to Myst. Note that the new tell-tale games stuff is unplayable.

Still emulators remain the best use of a netbook in terms of gaming. You could easily store every cart-based game ever made on that HDD (OBVIOUSLY assuming that you own all of them...) and not notice at all.

Lastly, http://www.remar.se/daniel/iji.php

That game is the pants (at least I think so), free, and will run on anything. I really urge you to play it for its own sake.