Fun in the Sun

Sun Games

Games & Amusements

Illwinter offers a pair of shareware games (with trial demonstrations) for Solaris: Conquest of Elysium and the truly magnificent Dominions and Dominions II.

DOOM
Solar Eclipse - Quake for Solaris.
Freeciv, a clone of Civilization. Requires libXpm to run. Packaged versions of both libXpm and freeciv can be obtained from Freeciv's FTP server.
Freeware4sun set of pre-packaged games.
Unix Guru Universe games collection.
Turboguide Can produce list of the handful of commercial Sun game vendors.
METALAB.UNC.EDU has a group of prebuilt packaged games, including GNUCHESS and xpacman. i386 versions are here
Freshmeat.net has two useful sections. One for Console games and the other for X11-based games.
FreeBSD distribution has a fairly extensive collection of games, including the old SunOS 4 ones, but compiling them under Solaris is not an easy task.
Freesoftware.com's collection of X11-based games.
Solarcade, Georgie Lowe's elaborate collection of games for the UltraSPARC.

Turning your favorite images into custom wallpaper for CDE.
xmcd Outstanding CD-player for most Unices. Note that it's a pain to build from source; use their pre-built version unless you've got a fair amount of time.
Masterplan a random .plan and .signature generator.

General Software Collections

Sun Freeware - for Solaris. Massive & officially supported collection, source & package format.
Sun 3/3x Archive

Humor

Haiku Error Messages The definitive source, from Salon Magazine.
Celeste Stokeley's humor for system administrators collection

News & General Information

Know of any other interesting games, links, or fun things to do? Let me know!

This page is completely unaffiliated with Sun Microsystems, a wonderful company with many lawyers who would be chasing after me if I ever implied otherwise.