The Journey Down Trilogy is a bundle of three games for Linux for $10.76:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_journey_down_trilogy [External Link]

You can rarely see this discount on GOG.

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Quoting: HamishBetter than on Windows 98 as Red Hat still had drivers for it, so I just had to figure out the right serial device. Mouse was a cranky old beast as you would expect.

In this case, you probably can't compare it to a PS/2 mouse how precise they are during gameplay.

Quoting: gbudnyHa, well, I do not even have SSDs in my main Arch Linux box yet; the two Western Digital 2 TB Greens and the 500 GB Blue that I installed 10 years ago are still going strong, so I never had a compelling reason to replace them.

I didn't know it.
I hope that you are checking their condition. I had so many situations in the past when my files got corrupted because of a faulty HDD.

The retro community frequently uses cheap SSDs, but I have never seen a video with the old Linux distribution.

I noticed it is impossible to buy the Battery Free mouse from A4Tech.



It was the clever way to have a wireless mouse on Linux in 2005 without any weird hacks. I think they started to become history because I mostly saw only on auctions the mouse Key Connection WLBF95 Battery Free. They use the same technology, but I don't know how well they work with Linux.

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Thank you for the article.

I hope this project will become as big and active as VCMI.

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Quoting: WoodlandorThat reminds me of the days helping out with the LinEAK (Linux Easy Access Keyboard) project to get the extra multimedia keys to work back in the Wild West before everyone agreed on a standard.

I remember it.

I was adding multimedia keys one by one manually by checking special codes in 2004-2008. I was doing it because I read the article from 2004 from the magazine Linux+.

It was one of the reasons why I would never buy the multimedia keyboard for Linux.

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Thank you for the article.

This mouse looks nice. However, I decided to replace my PS/2 mouse in one of my old computers with the USB mouse. I bent needles twice, so it was too stressful. I use the PS/2 mouse only with a computer that I use for Exile 3 Ruined World and Würstelstand.

How was your experience with the serial mouse on Linux?

I never tried this type of mouse.

I know that there is a wireless USB mouse that doesn't require charging. This mouse works only on the special mousepad. I don't know if the PS/2 version exists. You can try with a USB/PS/2 converter if you want to experiment.

A4Tech had the whole series of Battery Free mouses - they aren't so popular anymore.

I know that movies and games look better on the CRT monitor. However,
I would never replace my LCD monitor with a CRT because it's more harmful to the eyes. In my view, the esthetics shouldn't be a priority only in this case.

Some of these old LCD monitors had this annoying issue when I had to choose a different screen resolution. I don't have this issue with the modern monitor from 2018 with the VGA port, which is weird.

Some people connected the SSD to old computers with Windows 98 and Mac OS X Tiger. You have this size limit, so I don't know if it will work on this hardware with the old version of Linux.

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It's terrible news.

I remember reading many articles written by him because I had visiting linuxgames.com since 2004. I listen to podcasts, but there were 12(?) of them on linuxgames.com.
He was a big fan of games for Linux, and he kept working on linuxgames.com until it was closed by the owner around 2015. It's was impresive that he wanted to keep this webiste alive, and later, he was the only person writting articles on linuxgames.com for probably last few years.

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Quoting: enigmaxg2How do you play Phobia 3 on modern Linux? I tried to run it and nothing happened, ran it through the command line and it asked about libartsc.so.0 library which I can't find anywhere.

It's part of the arts package, but you won't find it in the new versions of KDE. It's weird that Phobia 3 relies on the KDE part.

The game works on Suse 10.1 from 2006.

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That is good news.

However, Freeablo is now a dead project, and I worry about it.
I'm not sure if license issues were sorted out. It's annoying that we had all these Diablo projects and Diablo 2. Now, they are all inactive projects.

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Can I use it to play Desecrated Lands?

I hope that they add support for Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest. I can't find any active projects that support this game.

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Quoting: gbudnyThese activation keys that require a server connection are annoying and make some games useless. On the other hand, it probably won't be an issue if you have a backup of the hidden folder from the activated game.

Sadly in the case of the Ignition DRM that was included with Marble Blast Gold not even that may be an option, as it also ties itself to your specific hardware configuration.

That is terrible. I hope that would work with Marble Blast Gold if you could use the hidden folder with the exact PC configuration (not the same computer).

Does it check only your motherboard or more hardware in your PC?

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