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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Quoting: Matombo

Quoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ [External Link]

Now that website is a blast from the past

They are still working on the engine used by this game:

https://raydium.org/svn.php [External Link]

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Quoting: hjahre

Quoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ [External Link]

I think ManiaDrive is an open source clone of the original TrackMania [External Link], which (I guess) got the idea from the Brøderbund game Stunts [External Link].

Yes, it's a clone of Trackmania.

However, I didn't play the original TrackMania, so I couldn't compare them.
It was much more fun playing Maniadrive as something new to me on Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUR4WnjNVRQ [External Link]

BTW, it's a song from Maniadrive.

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I have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ [External Link]

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Thank you for the last three articles.

I have to admit that I have never played NetHack, which is the popular game.

Recently, I changed my old PC for classic games (Athlon XP 1,25 GHz, 1,5 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5500 256MB) to something more powerful (Pentium 4 2,80 GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6200 512MB). Unfortunately, I quickly refreshed my memory of why in 2004, I always had a copy of the XFree86Config. I had an issue with the Nvidia drivers giving me a black screen. You can find a solution here:

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.137/README/configuringagp.html [External Link]

Maybe it will be useful for users want to play classic games for Linux.

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