Sweetness of the Day: Frets on Fire
Like to bum games of Guitar Hero off of your friends, but don’t have the money (or desire) for your own PS2 or XBox360? Don’t fret (horrible pun intended): with the open-source Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD version of Frets on Fire, you can get your Free Bird on faster than you can say “And this bird you cannot change”.
You actually heft your keyboard (check out the YouTube video for an example) or get a supported guitar controller (or if you’re a tool, generic joystick). There’s a decent user community out there, writing songs for the Python-based app. You’ll need a “fairly fast” OpenGL graphics card to get going. The screenshots look pretty awful if you’re a hardcore Guitar Hero, but with all that money you’re saving, you could go out and buy a real guitar.
I wouldn’t recommend using your laptop to play, but I suppose you could….
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