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Quoting: gbudnyDo you remember the name of this Linux library? ... Did you find any information in a Readme file or instructions about Linux?

"gamei386.so - New game code for Linux (Compiled on Redhat 5.1)" - readme-1.1.txt

They also released the source code for the game library in the zaero-src-1.1-2.zip archive. Hence this:
https://github.com/yquake2/zaero [External Link]

Thank you for the answer.

This library was on the CD, but they didn't sell as a Linux-compatible mod.
We probably never find out if that was the decision of the publisher or the developer.

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Thank you for the article.

Do you remember the name of this Linux library?

formal Linux support even being offered through a library file included as part of the official zaero-1.1-2.zip patch archive

Did you find any information in a Readme file or instructions about Linux?

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Quoting: HamishThese are the best quality images I have found of it:

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The Crack dot Com version has a red Abuse logo while the Origin/EA version has a blue Abuse logo.

Can you imagine hundreds of unopened boxes with the Linux version of Abuse located somewhere?

Do you think that Golgotha can be built on Linux?

https://github.com/pgrawehr/golgotha [External Link]

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Quoting: HamishFurther links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part34.html [External Link]

Quoting: gbudnyI know that Abuse was on the CD with old versions of Red Hat Linux. I don't know which version of Red Hat had the most recent version of this game. Maybe, it will be easier for you to check old versions of Red Hat. Then, you can try to find this specific version of Red Hat with Abuse on eBay or other places.

I have looked into this, and best as I can tell, it was only the shareware version of Abuse that Red Hat packaged alongside their distribution without the full registered data. Hence the RPM package that I grabbed from their servers, which in fact is what I used to install the shareware version for my article back when I played it in February.

Red Hat did sign a publishing deal for Golgotha but that of course was never finished:
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-crackdotcom [External Link]

Not long after Red Hat stated that they had no further interest in publishing games:
https://slashdot.org/story/98/11/05/105224/red-hat-not-interested-in-publishing-id-games [External Link]

Maybe they were only releasing the shareware version of this game.
On the other hand, the application CD was added frequently to the boxed versions of Red Hat, and it would be difficult to check their content. The application CD contained many commercial and shareware applications for Linux.

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Thank you for the article.

I know that Abuse was on the CD with old versions of Red Hat Linux. I don't know which version of Red Hat had the most recent version of this game.

Maybe, it will be easier for you to check old versions of Red Hat. Then, you can try to find this specific version of Red Hat with Abuse on eBay or other places.

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Quoting: gbudnyIn 2009, Linux had access to Flex, Air, Flashplayer (with the GTK menu), and Adobe Reader. Later, Adobe one by one started to abandon these applications for Linux. It was painful to observe it.

It seemed funny to me to see all of the lamentations about Flash meeting its end not too long ago, when, for us Linux users, the web has been (mercifully) Flash-free for much longer. :tongue:

I remember that in 2012, they discontinued Flashplayer for a few years. Later, I saw plugins that used Wine to run it inside the native web browser, which was even worse.

People were complaining in Poland when Flashplayer 7 wasn't released for Linux because they couldn't watch Adam Małysz ski jumping. Of course, Moonlight was a complete garbage because it couldn't even be called the alternative to Silverlight.

I have been using Adobe Reader and Flashplayer since 2004, and it's hard to accept it. Flash was dying for many years, and Adobe didn't do Linux users a favor when they did earlier.

I still use Air to run some games on Linux.

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Thank you for the article.

I remember the TV series Garfield, which was funny when I was a kid.

I have never played the games based on this TV series. However, there were thousands of flash games, and it was almost impossible to track them.

Flash was always terrible on Linux because it could even crash your web browser. In 2009, Linux had access to Flex, Air, Flashplayer (with the GTK menu), and Adobe Reader. Later, Adobe one by one started to abandon these applications for Linux. It was painful to observe it.

They started with AIX/HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux was at the end of their list.

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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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