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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These 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.

I hate when companies abandon games and don't sort these out issues with the activation.

Developers of Tribal Trouble had done it properly when they decided to release a file with a key for their game. Unfortunately, they didn't do anything with Tribal trouble 2, which you could play only in a web browser, which is a shame.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: gbudnyI see it on their website, but it's hard to say if it was included on the CD with the game.

Looking at more eBay listings it seems that the boxes that were published by Eagle Games (including the Annie Duke endorsed "Collector’s Edition") just have the Windows and Mac version on the disc, although I suspect the activation keys would also work on Linux, but a later "Tournament Edition" distributed by Encore (and endorsed this time by Phil Gordon) does actually mention Linux directly on the box.

I don't like when companies remove the Linux version from the disk.

Quoting: HamishDoes this mean I have to learn how to play poker now? :neutral:

Maybe.

Reel Deal Slots contains so many games that you can find in a casino. I think it will be more challenging than this Poker game.

It was so weird when I started Reel Deal Slots for the first time, and I had so many games to play.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: gbudnyWhere did you find it?

It was actually stumbling across an eBay listing for Tournament Poker 2005: No Limit Texas Hold 'Em which was a retail variant of DD Poker that led me to Donohoe Digital that led me to War! Age of Imperialism.

Pretty sure only the Windows and Mac versions were actually included on that poker disc, not that it matters since DD Poker is a freeware game now.

Thank you for the answer.

MobyGames mentions the Linux version of this game. I don't know if this information is correct:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/172494/dd-tournament-poker-2005-no-limit-texas-holdem-collectors-editio/ [External Link]

I see it on their website, but it's hard to say if it was included on the CD with the game.

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