There was always a misconception among Linux users about this company, and it's now hard to accept facts. Dave Taylor ported Doom as the first game to Linux, but Inner worlds was the first game developed for Linux and published on the CD. Id Sofware invested some money to publish official versions of Quake for Linux, and they were active for one year.

Macmillan published Quake, Quake 2, and Loki software published Quake 3 in the same year - that is it! The low sales of Quake 3 for Linux were the main reason that Loki was closed.

Later, Timothee Besset decided to publish unofficial versions of games for Linux. I bought few versions of games for Mac to play on Linux.

Id software was a company interested to publish the source code of their games, and it's a fact. However, I think that the rest of the company didn't care what Timothee Besset was doing back then. He left Id software in 2012, and that was the end of porting unofficial versions of games to Linux and official versions to Mac.

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Quoting: subIt's a shame, indeed.
They could've at least have a Linux and Mac build out.

Id software dosen't care about porting games to Linux and Mac, and it's sad how this company has changed. Aspyr removed all id software games from the Mac App Store, and they didn't even plan to create new versions that will be compatible with macOS Catalina.

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The main issue with every version of Wine on Linux or Mac is always the same. This weird thing doesn't always work properly, and companies always fail if they want to sell games in this way.
They can use different names for it like Wine, WineX, Cedega, Cider, and so on.
I saw a lot of corporations and small indie developers that constantly try this experiment, and they always lose when they make games in this way.

You can't create a better emulator than the current version of Windows, and Microsoft doesn't have to do anything to prove it. It takes some time when individuals are going to accept it sooner or later.

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Quoting: HoriI'd rather have working Proton "version", than buggy/broken native versions.
In fact, there are already games in my library which I play with Proton even though they have a native version.

I'd also rather have devs spend the time making sure their game works well with Proton rather than wasting it on an underfunded Linux version that's doomed to fail.
I'd also rather have a Proton "version" than none at all. (which is probably the case in the case here, as discontinued/unsupported ports don't count)

Either do a good, proper, well-supported Linux version, or none at all and use Proton instead. That's my take on this matter. Obviously the first is the better option for the end-user, but until there's enough demand, it not worth it for a lot of devs out there.

PS: Ain't nobody gonna complain about them saying "Proton emulation"?

I think that I read these types of comments many years ago when Cedega was a popular application.
Back then, most of these users moved back to Windows because that is the best platform to play games for Windows.

Personally, I prefer buggy Linux ports of games to nothing, which means games for Windows using Proton.

People complain about the quality of games on Steam. However, I remember that I was happy when Icculus ported Medal of Honor and Serious sam the second edition to Linux - beta versions.

If the game is playable on Linux that's great even if I have to use some tricks to run it.

Devastation for Linux was doomed to fail, and you shouldn't forget this one game - but I still bought a version for Windows to run it. Compare Devastation for Linux to any other game on Steam, you will see the difference, which is the better option for you.

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Unlike other game engine reimplementations (OpenMW, openXcom, OpenRA, CorsixTH and so on), this isn't exactly "clean" in comparison which is why it's much more of a grey area.

Just a curiosity, what make it "dirty" in comparison? Is it because of the reverse engineering method?

This issue wouldn't exist if people could run these games using OpenRW. However, the authors stopped working on this project, and now we don't have this option.

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I like this project, and it will be great if Take-Two resigns from publishing any counter-claims. They should stay quiet if they want to make more money.

Unfortunately, I'm skeptical about their future actions against this project because
there's another group that tries to do the same thing with Grand Theft Auto San Andreas:

https://github.com/codenulls/gta-reversed [External Link]

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https://bitbucket.org/runesoftdev/helpdesk/wiki/Home [External Link]

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I know it is unrealistic, but it will be awesome if he can finish Mohaa and Devastation for Linux. I really do not want to use an old computer with Linux 2.4 to play mohaa on Linux.
Additionally, I tried to finish playing Devastation on Linux because I had the save games from the version for Windows, but I gave up after several levels.

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I know that he was one of the programmers who created Hyperspace Delivery Boy! which later was ported to Linux by David Hedbor (He also ported NingPo MahJong to Linux) from Eon Games, and published by LGP. Unfortunately, Monkeystone Games created by John Romero was closed many years ago and Eon Games was closed in 2010.

I think that Hyperspace Delivery Boy! for Linux was the only version of this game published on the CD which means that now you can play it only on Linux.

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I think that all the comments about Linux users who use Ubuntu 32-bit because they only have the old computers don't make any sense. In my view, this is only one of the many reasons.

I want to remind you that many Linux users want to use Ubuntu 32-bit on their new computers in order to run old applications and classic games for Linux. I believe it is much easier to install those old apps and games on new versions of Ubuntu 32-bit than on Ubuntu 64-bit.

I also use Mac, and I hate the situation when Apple remove something from the system because they do not care about the old applications or classic games. Those radical changes do not help Mac become the more popular operating system among Windows users.

Why are Linux users expecting the same decisions from companies like Canonical?

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