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Quoting: gbudny

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyhow, love this series, makes me want to try on one of the old PCs I built recently.

I hope that more users start to build old PCs to play games for Linux.

I saw the AGP graphic cards like GeForce 7950 GT 512 MB or even 8400 GS 512 MB. My GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB isn't terrible. However, I like to see some room for the performance improvements in some games.

I have several Marvel G400TV cards, I am planning on going a different route with productivity on old PCs. Granted originally I wasn't thinking of using Linux...

But now that I think about it, I may very well do so.
Equipment list I'm going to be using to produce videos (when I get around to it)
Amiga 4000 Video Toaster (For old school effects)
I have two cameras that can do digital / analog for recording.
Marvel G400TV can be used for capturing some stuff (may use OBS or something and toying with doing live videos maybe?)
M1 Macbook for any post processing stuff.

For music/audio, I have an Atari Falcon+Cubase, and Logic Pro on the mac.

So my plans are really a mix of old tech+modern tech. The work flow is going to be really wacky, but fun I think.

It looks like the interesting way of combining different computers and operating systems.

I never had a chance to use Matrox cards Linux. I watched somewhere it was tricky to install drivers back then. In my opinion, Matrox Parhelia still looks like a nice alternative for the old PCs.

Did you try to run Amix on Amiga 4000?

I know there was a version Unix for Atari:

http://www.atariunix.com/ [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyhow, love this series, makes me want to try on one of the old PCs I built recently.

I hope that more users start to build old PCs to play games for Linux.

I saw the AGP graphic cards like GeForce 7950 GT 512 MB or even 8400 GS 512 MB. My GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB isn't terrible. However, I like to see some room for the performance improvements in some games.

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Quoting: Lightkey

Quoting: gbudnyI don't know if you have plans to write the article about Mobility for Linux. However, their refreshed website is back online after a few months:

https://www.mobility-online.de/download-registrierung/download [External Link]

I didn't expect it.

..and then they just point to Holarse for the Linux version instead of hosting it themselves, those freeloaders!
Seems like there was a lot added with later versions but not for the Linux version, sadly.

They didn't disappear with the registration keys, and more users could buy now this game for Linux.

I was able to run it even on Ubuntu 20.4, which is crazy.

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Thank you for the article.

GarageGames was one of the pivotal companies for Linux users.

I hope that they publish the official DRM-free version of Marble Blast for Linux in the near future.

I want to point that out that one the of the games that used Torque 2D Engine was Galacticards from Killer Bee Software:

http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/kbsgames/gc/ [External Link]

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Quoting: HamishYep, that would be correct. This is probably one of the articles that I spent the most time doing research on, and I ended up having a massive text file full of links. I guess I must have copied the wrong VOGONS thread over. I never did get XFree86 to launch at 320x200 by the way, but I was able to expand the Abuse window in the end.

Thank you for the article.

I waited for it, and I think it's my favorite article from your retro series. I like to read when users publish how to solve different issues with games for Linux.

It reminded me of this patch 640x480 for the old Linux version of ROTT from icculus.org.

Dave Taylor probably didn't spend too much time working on this version of Doom. I suspect that Doom for NeXTStep is similar to this one.

Inner worlds is another game that runs only using the root account.

It's such a shame https://happypenguin.altervista.org/ [External Link] removed old comments because they are useful sometimes.

I don't know if you have plans to write the article about Mobility for Linux. However, their refreshed website is back online after a few months:

https://www.mobility-online.de/download-registrierung/download [External Link]

I didn't expect it.

Quoting: LightkeyBernd Kreimeier! Squee~ *girlynoises*
A name I haven't heard in a long time. Sorry, I know this is getting off-topic, I only know him from his Loki Software days, where he was responsible for OpenAL [External Link] and as a German myself, from his science-fiction short stories in the c’t [External Link] magazine I was reading at the time.
I thought he wrote those just as a hobby but looking at Wikipedia [External Link], it seems it was his job early on, where he even wrote some novels that I should check out some time. Those are probably also the reason why there is only a German Wikipedia article for him. :happy:

Thanks.

I didn't know about it.

Quoting: HamishI definitely intend to come back to Abuse in a later article, once I can get my hands on a CD-ROM. The original registered version direct from Crack dot Com would be best.

It's much easier to find it than Inner worlds.

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I'm starting to feel old. I remember a time before Steam for Linux, back in the dark days even before the first set of Humble Indie Bundles, it's truly crazy how far Linux has come overall as a platform for gaming. 10 years ago today, Steam for Linux left Beta and released officially and what a difference it made!
Linux Gaming is no longer a thing that people will constantly laugh about. It's here, it's a thing and many people now with a Steam Deck likely don't even realise they're using Linux — that's just how good it can be.

Dark days?

I have to disagree with it.

Many companies tried hard to release more games for Linux before HIB. I think about Linux publishers (LGP, Loki, Runesoft, etc.), porting houses (Eon Games, IGIOS, etc.), porters (Ryan Gordon, Frank Earl, etc.), and companies that are well-known for just one game (Cipsoft, Laminar Research etc.,). We had companies with a long history of releasing games for Linux. Many of them were ignored like Kristianix games, InterAction studios, and so on.

We didn't have a good website that covered all the information about all commercial games for Linux. I must admit that it was hard to track all these companies before 2010.

On the other hand, some users felt that the Linux market was a joke. They had to choose between more expensive games from Linux publishers or indie games. When some users didn't want to accept it, they were forced to go back to using Windows.

It wasn't a perfect situation, but we constantly saw new games released for Linux. These companies and programers had to deal with users that wanted just Steam for Linux.

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Thank you for the article.

I didn't know about these mods for Quake.

However, Malice looks similar to Sin, which is something interesting to me.

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Quoting: HamishI suspect this is too new to run on Dianoga, but the website is still up, so that is nice. I can try the demo.

Unfortunately, they don't sell it anymore.
However, you can try contact with them using their email address or the Facebook page. Maybe, they can sell you the Linux version of Runes of Avalon, Runes of Avalon 2, and Runes of Avalon - Path of Magic.

Quoting: HamishYou mean the DarkPlaces mod? I can quite confidently say that would bring Dianoga to its knees. I remember Nexuiz being quite heavy even with my Radeon 9200 card.

The atmosphere in this game is amazing, and I can't compare to any other open source games, or even many commercial games. I could be wrong about it. I think that I played for the first time using GeForce 4 MX 440, which is probably less powerful than your card. It could require changing some options in DarkPlaces from 2005 to make more playable.

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Thank you for the article.

I thought it will about Eric's Ultimate Solitaire.

I played Frozen Bubble for the first time on Aurox 9.3 (the better version of Fedora core 1) in 2004. It was one of more interesting games included on the CD with this Linux distribution.

The music in Frozen Bubble is cool. Someone even posted a video, which isn't surprising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6npb0HcjW9o [External Link]

I can't say it was one of my favorite games. The series Runes of Avalon was much better than that.

However, I can easily recommend it to everyone to try it. It's one of these rare open source games that looks amazing.

Do you plan to write the article about The Hunted chronicle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08FujZzSdE [External Link]

I showed it to my brother and my cousin in 2005. They asked how much I paid for it.

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Thank you for article.

It's great that people remember Turbo Sliders.

It was a popular game, and now it's a freeware:

http://ts.turbosliders.com/download [External Link]

I hope that Turbo Sliders Unlimited will be ported to Linux.

In general, we didn't have too many commercial games where you can race.

We had two futuristic racing computer games for Linux: Ballistics and H-Craft Championship, which were cool games. I spent many hours playing them, but you don't drive race cars in them.

Motorbikes fans could enjoy playing MX Simulator and Mad Skills Motorcross:

https://mxsimulator.com/ [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRHjIjF7Jhc [External Link]

Some lucky people could enjoy the native version of Bandits: Phoenix Rising for Linux. Unfortunately, LGP didn't finish this game, but they planned to release it.

https://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=bandits [External Link]

There was a car simulation called Odyssey By Car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzA5EvmYck8 [External Link]

When I ran it for the first time, I was surprised that my car could only moves backward. I don't have a driver's license, so I had to learn how to use the gear shift. It's the awesome game, and sometimes I still play it on Linux.

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