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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I'm happy that Croteam is creating another game for Linux with Room-C Games.

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Thank you for the article.

It's one of my favorite games for Linux.

I tried to install it on Ubuntu 64-bit a few days ago, but it crashes at startup - it's terrible.
However, I keep older versions of Linux distributions like Linux Mint from 2010, and it allowed me to have some fun playing SOF for Linux without using any tricks.

Unfortunately, SOF for Linux sometimes crashes to the desktop with the segmentation fault error. I don't remember any situation when I had to reboot my computer when I played it.

I also played SOF 2 for Mac, but it's a different game than the previous one. I remember that I was disappointed when I bought it.

Soldier of Fortune: Payback wasn't ported to any Unix-like operating system, and it's the best reason to skip it.

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Thank you for the article.

It's embarrassing to me.

Heretic 2 is one of the games that I started playing a few times, but I have never finished it.

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Quoting: HamishJust discovered that the MobyGames page for XEvil has a lot of nice Linux screenshots:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/xevil [External Link]

As does The Ace of Penguins thanks to the same contributor:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ace-of-penguins [External Link]

Nice to know that I am not alone in doing all this. :grin:

I sometimes visit this website to find information about games.

However, it's weird that your articles don't generate bigger interest among Linux users.

On the one hand, many commercial games aren't available for Linux anymore, and a majority of users didn't even care about games released before HIB.

On the other hand, we still don't have a big enough group of users that could be a reason for any company to bring back many forgotten games for Linux. I think about something like GOG with Linux games for Linux users.

Some people recognize old games for DOS or Windows if someone publishes an article about releasing a source code. It's a disappointing situation if I think about all these brave people that published their games to Linux before HiB.

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Thank you for the article.

I didn't know this game, but it has a rich history.

I have to check it out.

I still have all three games created by Hyperion Entertainment, and two of them I registered on their website. Gorky 17 is a DRM-free game without a key. Shogo was published in a box for the Mac version, which is so weird.

Sadly, they never created any patches for Sin and Shogo. Sin and Gorky 17 also were ported to Linux PowerPC by Hyperion Entertainment.

Sin was almost as good as Soldier of Fortune, but with worse graphics and less addictive. However. it was fun to play it on Linux, and I remember that even liflg.org created a new installer for a Linux version.

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I like games that Croteam created for Linux even if their early versions were very buggy. I can even spend money on a native game for Linux that wasn't finished or when you don't officially support it.

You can publish one or two versions for Linux, and discontinue it, which is still better than nothing.

Unfortunately, I can't buy a game for Windows, and I don't care how well it runs on Proton, Wine, etc. It's a fun game for Windows users.

However, I use Linux when I play games and rarely Mac. Be SERIOUS about your customers that don't want to use Windows.

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