After the decision to remove linux-modules-extra-2.6 from Debian, it is now time to move all modules to a new method for compilation. Nothing is bad about module-assistant - beside the problem that you must know about it and understand how to use it.
Das schwarze Auge under Linux
I got a copy of "Das schwarze Auge - Nordlandtriologie" from Jowood and inspected the installation medium to get a working installation under my free operating system of choice. It has only one interesting file - Setup1.cab which can be extracted by cabextract. Of course, this will result in a non working directory structure but this is nothing we cannot fix. (I will skip the InstallShield script stuff here)
Settler 2 TNG under Wine
After porting some free software to an unfree operation system I've chosen to run some unfree software on a free operation system (ok, just wanted to play some kind of vikings godfather). An interesting target was "The Settlers 2: The Next Generation" or in german "Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation" v1.11757 because I found some positive comments inside wine's appdb and Ubisoft is selling it at a cheap price at the moment.