Hi

Thank you for the article.

I used LIFLG to play Sin.

Thank you for the information about this patch.

I didn't have issues with any save games in Sin on Ubuntu 20.4. However, the final cutscene didn't work, so I had to use VLC to watch it.

There is a terrible bug which is caused by the different location of a few files in one of pak files. The game crashes before the underwater pass part 2, and I just copied few files from pak to the directory with Sin. In this case, I didn't have to cheat to finish Sin.

You forgot to mention that Sin was ported to Linux PowerPC.

You can also use Mac OS X 10.6 with Rosetta to play Wages of Sin on the intel Mac from 2010 (or Mac Pro 2012) or earlier. I didn't tried myself.

Hyperion didn't release any patches for Sin and Shogo because low sales were a big issue for them. Hyperion ported these games to Linux, but they blamed a Linux publisher Titan Computer for low sales. I'm not sure which company you mentioned at the end of this article.

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I have to correct a mistake.

Alternative Games was porting games to Linux for 12 years.

Quoting: Liam DaweThere’s been a game on Steam before that only had a Linux build.

I remember that later, this game was ported to Windows, but they first released the Linux version.
Voltley was released in 2009, and they never ported it to Windows.

Quoting: Liam DaweIt’s not a hard requirement set by Valve.

You can ask Clive Crous, and Thomas Frieden about it. I remember that even a lawyer fron Hyperion couldn't make a deal with creators of Gorky 17.

Quoting: Liam DaweThe point is: why? Exclusives are bad.

They are bad for some users because they have to spend more money on two or three different versions of the game. On the other hand, exclusive games give almost everyone a good reason to keep Linux on your hard drive.

Steam allow users to buy a game for few operating systems. In this case, they can have some fun with Linux, and they can easily go back to Windows. They don't have to worry that they have games for Linux in their closet on a CD or a flash drive.

Exclusive games are good for some Linux publishers because they can earn more money.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt's not that I couldn't imagine some dev that is in love with the Deck for some reason creating a game specifically made for the Deck's somewhat unique input system.
Or that Valve would fund such a thing.
Might be fun, but if that ever happens, it'll be a gigantic rarity and the dev will get a lot of flak if they don't also enable it on normal PC platforms.

I want to see bundles with games for:

- Windows/Linux/Mac
- Windows/Mac
- Windows/Linux
- Linux/Mac
etc.

Valve should stop require rights to publishing a Windows version if a company want to sell only a Linux version.

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Exclusives titles for Linux have two meanings:

- games that you can play only on Linux
- games ported by a Linux publisher

We don't have these options with Steam, which is weird.

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Hi

I think that right now Linux users have other issues because we slowly start to loose companies that built the success of this platform. Alternative Games disappeared, and nobody noticed it. They ported many great games to Linux, and they have been doing that for 11 years.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/5535/

Now, we can really forget about Frozenbyte games for Linux. The Linux team from IGIOS founded this company, and a few employees from previous company ported two first games for Linux that used NVIDIA PhysX in 2009. They are responsible for The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle because they ported most of these games to Linux and Mac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaM6LHC_uXA [External Link]

Ii will be fun to have few popular indie games exclusively for Linux, and it takes some time when it happens. We had Voltley, which was exclusive game for Linux, and I regret that I didn't bought it. The author of this game is unknown, and we don't get this game on Steam. This is one of the reasons why Runesoft, and LGP couldn't publish their games on Steam. I hope that Valve chenge their mind about this issue, and allow publishing separate games for Linux.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: gbudnyThis is great!

I'm pretty sure that I saw somewhere articles from 2009, but I can't find anything:

"Welcome to GamingOnLinux
By Liam Dawe, 1 Apr, 2010"

I tied to use archive.org, but I couldn't do it:

Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

We were on a .info domain name originally, and for some reason Wayback won't unblock this one despite repeated requests.

Thank you for the answer.

I didn't expect this kind of behavior from them, which is disappointing.

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This is great!

I'm pretty sure that I saw somewhere articles from 2009, but I can't find anything:

"Welcome to GamingOnLinux
By Liam Dawe, 1 Apr, 2010"

I tied to use archive.org, but I couldn't do it:

Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

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Quoting: HamishAnother review of the game on Linux can be found here:
http://mrsneeze.com/games/reviews/theocracy/index.html [External Link]

And more information on the corrupted saved game issue can be read here:
https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/6456/t1748995-load-error-768/ [External Link]

Thank you for the article.

I don't have this game, but it's still on my list.

I'm not sure if you saw it.
There are some excellent instructions with tricks for the Linux verion of this games, and even a patch. These instructions are in German, but you can use the Google translate:

https://www.gameswelt.de/theocracy/tipp/theocracy-linux-guide-111911 [External Link]
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Archiv/Spiele/Theocracy/ [External Link]
https://holarse.de/wiki/theocracy [External Link]

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Great!

Does nobody remember Black Shades for Linux?

Https://www.icculus.org/blackshades/ [External Link]

It was simple, fun, and tricky at the same time.

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Fedora always had issues with NVIDIA drivers, and I don't think they are going to change it:

https://mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc2.html [External Link]

It's not a terrible operating system, but it's less stable and more problematic even than Debian testing. I think there are more stable versions of Red Hat than Fedora.

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