All of the games I listed except for americas army should run fine on older machines. :) AA I'm not too sure about, haven't played it in a while but a fun free game.
15 Jan, 2010, David Haley wrote in the 11th comment:
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Holy crap. That FS2 site is awesome. I didn't realize development was so active, or indeed that there was any at all going on in the fan community. I got my start with modding, back in the days of flipping bits in hex files; being able to mod such a good game with the source code is a dream come true. (I attribute my early learning of C to Quake2 modding, where you had half of the game's source available to you.)
All you need to hop back into FS2 with the updates from that site is an original copy…Which can be had via digital download (DRM free) at Good Old Games for a modest $10 or less :)
15 Jan, 2010, David Haley wrote in the 13th comment:
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Is that to play it at all, or just the main campaign? The site talks about a lot of mods and even TCs that presumably have their own game data.
That's to play it all. The only reason you even need an original copy is for the artwork and models, since the mod crew is strictly working code (aside from the full campaigns that were developed, too :).
15 Jan, 2010, Zen_Clark wrote in the 15th comment:
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I would suggest playing something along the lines of The Battle for Wesnoth, an open source rpg/turn-based strategy game. http://www.wesnoth.org/
It runs equally well on windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It also has a very good quality meta-server that other open source/free games do not normally have.
http://bitfighter.org/
Or, any other multiplayer PC game (because I don't have a console) relatively easy to download.
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