Page mentions a shareware arcade game called Last Defender by Wouter Scholten, but this old LSM listing says it was first listed in November 1996 so close but no cigar.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/LSM/LSM.1999-08-30#:~:text=Last%20Defender%20demo%20Version:%201.0.5%20Entered%2Ddate:%2019NOV96%20Description [External Link]

https://web.archive.org/web/19990218154129/http://www.spinne.com/x/games/ldefender/ [External Link]

Unfortunately ibiblio does not seem to still preserve the demo, so hopefully its on an old CD somewhere.

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Quoting: gbudnyDid you find any commercial games for Linux published in 1997?

It's the only year when I didn't find any commercial games released for Linux. I hope it's not true because it would be depressing to wait for over a year for Quake 2 and Ultima Online:

1994 Doom, Doom 2
1995 Abuse, SimCity
1996 Inner Worlds, Quake
1997 Nothing?
1998 Quake 2, Ultima Online

Maybe someone remembers it.

This officially bothers me. Can't really say for commercial, but I did dig up the original 1997 incarnation of the Game Tome: https://web.archive.org/web/19970806044626/http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tlau/tome/byname.html [External Link]

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Quoting: gbudnyI think it would be better if Macmillan Digital Publishing were also a publisher for Quake 3 for Linux in 1999. We probably get a set of rpms packages on the CD, which is weird and problematic on many Linux distributions. On the other hand, Loki could survive as a company if it didn't publish this game.

It is true that we would have gotten Quake 3 eventually anyway, even if it took half a decade before the source code was released.

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Quoting: apocalyptech. The suits tend to see modern generative systems as a shortcut to Increased Productivity™ and they might just be assuming that this is the magical tech that's gonna turn a struggling company into a thriving one.

In this particular instance of a banner ad that goes up for only two weeks, spending ten seconds is objectively more productive than spending an hour, even if the results are worse and it is not great branding.

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Marathon from Bungie will run just fine via Aleph One, just not what the hell that is supposed to be...

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The Force Engine Roadmap:

Towards Version 2.0
Estimated Release: Late 2025
Support for enhanced features from Outlaws in the editor and in Dark Forces mods (such as slopes).
Outlaws editor support.
Outlaws single player support in TFE.
Outlaws multi-player support in TFE

So hopefully soon...

https://theforceengine.github.io/Roadmap.html [External Link]

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There is still the matter of Unreal 2, UT2003 and UT 3...

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Game is still listed on GOG. I assume they are also getting the update?

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And when we say no texture filtering - WE MEAN IT!

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Its related to the fact that Fresh Supply was literally a worse product than free source ports that came out months before it.

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