I hope that someone create a Linux installer for this mod because I don't like to use Wine even for installing games on Linux.

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Great!

I have waited for 17 years to play a single-player mode in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

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Great!

I still have some digital and boxed versions of games like Postal 2 (LGP), Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Heavy Metal: FAKK 2, Candy Cruncher, and so on. I don't even count how many times I played Postal 2 and Lugaru on Linux.

It's such a shame that he probably didn't get paid to finish the Linux version of Medal of Honor. It's an excellent game, and I know the Linux version is buggy. However, I don't regret that I spend about 17$ to buy an old computer to run Medal of Honor for Linux without any crashes. It was a great game when kernel 2.4 was popular on PCs, and I highly recommend it.

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Quoting: HamishI collected a few more I took on my phone at the time:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/MSvVpqC
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Barring that, I do not want to take them out of storage again right now.

Thank you.

I'm not a big fan of Quake 2 so my version could stay in a shink wrap.

Did you notice any information who excatly prepared these games for Linux?

I know Dave Taylor ported Quake and later, David Kirsch worked on the Linux version of Quake 2. I'm curious if there was a Linux team responsible for these two games.

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Quoting: damarrinGreat article as always.

Anyone know how LGP’s DRMed games fare now? I have a few of those, including X3, but haven’t tried installing any recently.

The DRM itself was pretty permissive and innovative, but of course it needs a server to be running.

Recently, I was installing X3 on PCLinuxOS from 2009 because I didn't have time to find a solution on how to run it on the modern Linux distribution. I was able to run Sacred on Ubuntu 20.4, and it works, but I had to figure out what libraries shouldn't be in the lib directory.

I have Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor from LGP, but I didn't try to install them.

I have all boxed versions of LGP games, and the rest is DRM Free.

Quoting: HamishFunny how LGP is dominating the conversation when it is not even mentioned in the article... :whistle:

I do not actually have a wealth of LGP games on hand to try; since they never had the same retail presence that Loki did their games do not really show up on the second hand market, regardless of the DRM situation.

Classic games for Linux are now games published by LGP.

Can you take more pictures of Quake games? I have the box version of Quake 2 for Linux, but it's still in the shrink wrap. I don't want to unpack it.

Many years ago, Jadeware published the commercial game Halloween. Unfortunately, they decided to drop support the Linux version, and I couldn't buy it. However, they decided to release the source code on GitHub, so it should be possible to compile it on Linux:

https://happypenguin.altervista.org/sheet.php?gameid=1269 [External Link]
http://www.jadegame.com/games/halloween/ [External Link]

The original Linux version is too old to run on the modern Linux distributions. I couldn't compile on Linux.

I'm not a programmer, so I can't fix it. It's a fun game.

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In 2015, I thought that LGP will come back because Frank Earl showed up on the phoronix forum:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/linux-gaming/47888-linux-game-publishing-remains-offline-three-years-after-the-ceo-shakeup [External Link]

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Soldier of Fortune for Linux is an awesome game, and I was so desperate that I also bought Soldier of Fortune 2 for Mac. I know it is embarrassing. However, it was a very different game than the first part, and I didn't know about it.

Cold war for Linux is still my favorite game, and I always keep it on my hard drive.

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Wow! I wasn't aware that you wrote articles about it, which is fun.

A Few weeks ago, I bought the old computer to run mohaa, and of course, I didn't check that computer had the SATA hard drive.

It was terrible! I decided to buy the next old computer, and take some things from the first one like Geforce FX 5500. However, I asked the owner if he can check that this computer could run Mepis from 2003. It's so crazy how many good memories can bring the buggy version of Medal of Honor Beta 3 for Linux.

I remember that there was this moment when I couldn't use Linux 2.4 on Debian etch, and I was forced to move to Linux higher than 2.6.8. Unfortunately, the single-player mode of mohaa for Linux doesn't work properly on the modern Linux distributions.

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Personally, I'm waiting for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player, which will be released on November 19.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: gbudnyThe low sales of Quake 3 for Linux were the main reason that Loki was closed.

The whole thing was somewhat of a clusterfudge as I recall.

Loki decided to sell the native version in an exclusive metal box. Far more expensive than the Windows version. Meanwhile id published Linux binaries to download.

Most people where to excited to wait for the Linux version, simply bought the Windows version and called it a day.

I wasn't a Linux user in 1999, but we should treat this story as the poor excuse of Linux users.

That doesn't change the fact that Quake 3 for Linux was a financial disaster. For Id Software that was proof that Linux isn't a serious operating system for games.

I have to correct something about people who worked for ID software because I don't know their point of view about Linux.

John Romero and Tom Hall founded Monkeystone Games in 2001. David Hedbor from Eon games ported their game Hyperspace Delivery Boy to Linux and LGP published exclusively the box version of this game.

Brian Hook founded Pyrogon in 2002. Ryan Gordon ported Candy Cruncher to Linux x86 and David Hedbor ported NingPo MahJong to Linux x86. Both games were later published by LGP, but someone also ported Candy Cruncher to Linux PPC/Sparc and NingPo MahJong to Linux PPC

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