There are live disc versions too, but with writable media you're able to save your settings and carry the OS around with you. The easiest of them is to download an image, write it to a USB drive or SD card and boot this from your laptop or PC. You've got an array of options for trying Chromium OS.

This doesn't appear to be maintained as of April 2013, but it will still work. We're using this Chrome OS build, which is kept current.Īnother popular build is over at the Hexxeh website. It's unlikely you'll want to build it yourself from source, so there are versions ready for VirtualBox and for running and installing off a USB drive.

One thing we do know is that non-Intel wireless adaptors do cause issues, we'll go into this in more detail in a moment.Ī number of sites have maintained builds of Chromium OS. A general rule of thumb is: any standard Intel hardware should work without a hitch. What's more, it takes up less than five megs and is completely free.Having said that we tried it on a standard Lenovo X200 laptop from 2008 and everything worked without a hitch. Mari0 is a fantastic game, a brilliant platformer that becomes even more fun when played with friends. This character personalization will come especially in handy when it comes to playing multiplayer with friends, as the game allows up to four Marios to launch portals in the same game at the same time.Īs if the large quantity of levels and options that the multiplayer game offers weren't enough, Mari0 includes a level editor that you can use to create your own levels, and what's even better is the ease of playing with those that have been created by others. Next, you can choose the colors of both Mario's clothing and the portals that he generates. First, in an awesome wink to Team Fortress 2, you can put any of more than thirty available hats on Mario. With these portals, the player is able to do things from throwing enemies out of the level to skipping ahead in the game, being that the physics are perfectly recreated.īefore starting the game, of course, you can configure many different options. Thus, the player controls Mario through all of the levels of the legendary Super Mario Bros with the small addition that throughout the entire course of the game they can employ the famous 'portal gun' to create portals in any part of the scenario. Mari0 is a platform game that combines the scenarios, characters and general playability of the classic Super Mario Bros with the revolutionary mechanics of the not-so-classic Portal.

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