Quoting: ssj17vegetaThese fine people, with a 20-year old game with a probably vastly obsolete code base, are putting other studios "unable" to ensure proper native Linux versions to shame.

One of the few companies worthy of respect. Kudos to you !

One of the few companies worthy of respect?

I think that I'm too old because I don't understand this way of speaking about companies that release games for Linux.

I respect every company that decided to release games for this operating system. Especially the companies that started to release games before Steam was available for Linux.

RWS is one of the better companies because they were interested in releasing their games to Linux. Unfortunately, we can't forget that Postal was ported to Linux by Loki. Later, Ryan Gordon ported it again to Linux, and he ported Postal 2 for LGP. Icculus was also involved in creating patches for AW. I don't have an issue when companies hire others to port their games to Linux.

I was surprised when they ported Postal 2: Paradise Lost and Postal Redux without any porting houses.

I hope they will surprise us again with POSTAL: Brain Damaged and Postal 4 for Linux in the future.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderRWS was kind enough to sign the box for me..... I still have that signed box on my shelf...... And I got a RWS metal sign with real bullet holes in it :tongue:

My dog was even featured on the front page of their website......

That is cool. Do you have a picture of this version of Postal and the link to this section on their website?

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Quoting: ToploaderNative has better performance by quite a margin, so native is the way to go. We're finally rewarded for supporting Linux all these years later :grin: (it was never a profitable thing in the past, just more a passion project to keep our games native Linux).

I like this game!

Thank you for the update.

I don't know about sales of Postal by Loki. I have always thought that you had a small success with Postal 2 from LGP:

Postal 2 became Linux Game Publishing's fastest selling game in its first month, and contributed greatly to the continuing profitability of the company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_2 [External Link]

I still have this version from LGP.

When do you plan to release this game on GOG?

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Quoting: pageround

Quoting: BelaptirAge of Empires 2 DE is broken on this release. If you try to open it, first you'll see a crash report, then an Xbox login window will appear, then turn completely white and won't go away, effectively blocking and preventing you from playing (I was playing with experimental before and this didn't happen).

Only way to get around this is to go offline to open the game.

Oh no! Well, I'll be waiting for 8.1 in that case. Glad I can still run AOE2:DE in an older version of proton.

Are new versions of Proton could break the compatibility with different games more frequently than new versions of Wine?

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Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: gbudnyHowever, it would be cool if they could port the DRM-free version of Marble Blast Gold to Linux.

PlatinumQuest [External Link] works well in WINE. To download it, grab the macOS version of the launcher, extract the ZIP, `cd` to `Marble Blast Lauincher.app` then run `java -jar Contents/Java/MBLauncher.jar` (you need to have a JRE installed, JDK is not required). The launcher will download the Windows version to a folder in your home directory, which can then be run in WINE.

PlatinumQuest includes all Marble Blast Gold levels, while also having much more features such as online multiplayer and support for texture packs.

There's also Marble Blast Web [External Link], which is a pure JavaScript + WebGL game that can load Marble Blast Gold levels. It's not a port of the original code, but rewritten from the ground up.

Thanks.

I didn't know that PlatinumQuest includes all Marble Blast Gold levels.

I mentioned the Linux version because I was expecting more users be interested in playing it.

However, I can use Wine to install a Windows version if later I can run a Linux version. In this case, I will have to use Wine to play it. I always avoid using Wine/Proton because Windows is a better option.

I tried a web version, but a Haxe port of Marble Blast would give me a better experience playing it.

Unfortunately, it's not the official game. It's annoying that they re-released this game only for Windows and Mac.

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Great!

It looks like a great game that I want to play on Linux.

However, it would be cool if they could port the DRM-free version of Marble Blast Gold to Linux.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.

I am biased but I must say that 2 PCs sound overkill to me, compared to dual booting.

I don't know this game, but it's a terrible news.

I have 3 computers with the different Linux distributions to play different games published between 1996 - 2004 (e.g. Mohaa), 2004 - 2015 (e.g. Jack Keane), 2015 - 2023.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAMIX won't run on an A4000, it requires an A2000-A3000. NetBSD / Linux will run on the 4000, but I haven't tried it there yet.

I didn't know that they didn't do any updates to run Amix on A4000.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI was going to try NetBSD on my Atari TT030, (which is also where the Atari SysV Unix would need to be ran) but then I accidentally wrote the tiny image over a 3tb drive of data... so got distracted restoring that! (always make sure you're writing to the right device!!)

Mistakes are sometimes horrible for the data.

Can the Atari computer dual-boots Mint and Atari System V UNIX?

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, if I could find the old posts from MURC (Matrox users resource center) I wrote the howtos for installing the Parhelia drivers in Debian. :P Pretty much just required build-essentials and linux-headers-`uname -r`. Pre-Parhelia cards pretty much worked right out of the box.

It starts to look similar to the installation process of Nvidia drivers on Debian Sarge.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'd love to get a hold of an A3000 to run AMIX on though, looks sweet. Though out of all that era of computers, the best version of Unix was probably A/UX, as Apple integrated it with MacOS so you could run mac software and Unix stuff.

A/UX could run the software for Mac, which is awesome. Unfortunately, the last version of A/UX didn't contain any updates for System Software 7. In this case, it will probably run only early applications for System Software 7. It's still the only classic Unix that can run many popular games and applications from that period. We don't have to use DOS.

IRIX was cool for someone interested in running some popular applications. On the other hand, the prices of these computers are scary.

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Quoting: HamishThey do ship a modified version including their own Matrox HAL library it seems though:
https://www.matrox.com/de/video/apps/drivers/graphics/download?id=143 [External Link]

This is a driver that I was thinking about.

Quoting: HamishI was working on another old computer with my brother the other week, and inside his big antistatic bag of old expansion cards was, unbeknownst to him, a Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition Vérité V2100) graphics card. While useless for Linux this is still a very collectible and historically significant graphics card, as the Rendition Vérité was the first series of video cards to support 3D acceleration in Quake weeks before the Voodoo did.

My brother had no idea that the card was that valuable, nor did the person who sold it to him at a flea market. It was actually part of the same $1 CAD lot of cards that my Sound Blaster 16 PnP came from.

EDIT: Not entirely useless on Linux as 2D support for the Vérité was released through the back door:
"I got on to the beta tester team with Rendition and they were constantly upgrading the drivers and making them better and faster but the manufacturers couldn't be bothered with updating their drivers ... I also got the Verite engineers to "leak" the 2D driver specs because there wasn't a way to make it work with Linux. So I tried shopping the specs around to different Linux distros (there were only a few back then) and Redhat turned me down flat and Debian did too after a few weeks but I finally got the interest of some German programmers at SUSE and they got them to work (2D only) in no time and because of the way Linux works you could download them from SUSE and they would work in Redhat or Debian or any other distro"
Source: https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/rendition-gone-but-not-forgotten.278896/post-2010465 [External Link]

Thanks for the story.

It's one of these situations. I remember that someone sold me GeForce 6200 512MB for 15 zł (= above 3 dollars). I was expecting getting a brick in the box. I got the dirt cheap graphic card, but it's still one of the weakest in the 6000 series.

It's an intersting graphic card, but problematic even on DOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7zADH80vQA [External Link]

It's great that someone is working on the Linux driver for it.
The behavior of Debian developers is disappointing to me.

I live in a small town, which is two hours away from Warsaw. It's not worth even visit most of the stores with used computers in my hometown

Sometimes, it's much easier to get the cool stuff if you live much closer to the U.S.A.

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Quoting: HamishCertainly by the time of Red Hat Linux 7.3 any Matrox G200 or G400 card should just work out of the box with DRI drivers. The G400 MAX would be a compelling alternative for Dianoga, but they are about as expensive as Voodoo cards are these days.

Thank you for the clrafication.

How good were closed source drivers for Matrox cards?

Sometimes, people sell old graphics cards for a few dollars because they think it's a piece of useless junk.

Some graphics cards don't deserve to be so popular like Geforce 4 MX 440 - they are horrible.

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