Quoting: Purple Library GuyLooking at his post, doesn't sound like Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns will be happening any time soon because whoever made it dropped out of the space-time continuum. Pity; I know it wasn't a big or important game, but I liked it--probably because I didn't have access to any of the Windows games that were similar but better, I suppose.
Now what I'd really like to see is this treatment done to Alpha Centauri. Every time I go back to my old Loki CD of that, it takes a bit more fiddling to get it working (and last time I still couldn't get sound). I suppose it probably works under Wine/Proton these days, but somehow I really don't want to buy a Windows copy of a game I bought for Linux just to get it to run on Linux.

I haven't really gotten around to play it, but isn't 'Beyond Earth' supposed to be similar to Alpha Centauri?

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Quoting: HamishI'll just leave this here... :whistle:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4152 [External Link]

I remember purchasing a Voodoo 5 (not sure which model it was. AGP, 64mb and 2 GPUs on the card) back around the 2000s time period. I never got it working properly for gaming on Linux so I sold it to a Windows running friend for his dual CPU Celeron system. I ended up buying a Geforce 2 GTS and holy crap it was awesome. The Electronics Boutique I worked at carried LOKI Linux ports so I had quite a collection of retail Linux games. Anyway, KINGPIN wasn't one of them but I was able to use my roommates Windows CD version and the downloadable LOKI installer to install. I also remember it came with a small command line utility to rename all the game files to lowercase. I actually kept that little program around for several years to rename large directories of files.

I still have my original disk here, I wonder if it'll still work with the Loki installer.

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Quoting: ThreeEightySixHopefully the game won't have those original crap graphics!

Well yeah they are crap now but back then when all you had was software mode for gaming on pc which ran like ass, I still remember buying the Orchid 12mb 3d graphics card with the pass through to my shitty ass 2mb savage graphics card. It went from nothing having edges in 3d to everything smoothed out it was amazing. I mean now even the gt 210 is better than those cards but back in day it was like having a rtx 2080ti.

Ha, I was a quality pig, so had my Matrox Millennium 2 and a Pure3D 6mb Voodoo 1 card initially. Then eventually started upgrading to a Voodoo 2, and then when they got 3d integration, went with the Matrox G200 on up to the Parhelia... shame they eventually lost to the green and red guys, but the blue team invented multi-display setups, and that's still what they focus on.

Nice I remember the matrox cards my step brother had one i think the savage card i had was a hand me down from him, i was watching an lgr video on yt and he showed the box for midtown madness i think it was there were at least six different apis around back then that just do not exsist today. Back then if you made the wrong call on a graphics card you were screwed and doomed to software rendering.

Yeah, there was of course Glide, but then rarer ones like Rendition. PowerVR had their own too. There were also many more graphic card manufacturers back then as well. I mean for the most part we now only have AMD, NVIDIA and Intel, and only Intel has dragged it's feet for so long before finally (later this year?) releasing a discrete GPU.

I still occasionally see MGA cards on Servers, so there is that. Fortunately the 3D APIs settled pretty much on OpenGL and Direct3d, and now Vulkan. Then of course Apple had to go and screw it up by creating Metal...

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Quoting: HamishI'll just leave this here... :whistle:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4152 [External Link]

Yeah, I loved how well Matrox was supported in Linux. Sadly, with the Parhelia, they changed to a binary driver that you had to compile a shim.

Was cool to see that the initial GLX work on Linux was done in Utah, where I'm from. But Mesa originated on the Amiga!

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I suppose I should refund this, I've owned it for a long time, but never really played it beyond 'cool, it's Ballblazer for the 21st Century.' Then proceeded to play it instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXX_g7Au-5w [External Link]

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: ThreeEightySixHopefully the game won't have those original crap graphics!

Well yeah they are crap now but back then when all you had was software mode for gaming on pc which ran like ass, I still remember buying the Orchid 12mb 3d graphics card with the pass through to my shitty ass 2mb savage graphics card. It went from nothing having edges in 3d to everything smoothed out it was amazing. I mean now even the gt 210 is better than those cards but back in day it was like having a rtx 2080ti.

Ha, I was a quality pig, so had my Matrox Millennium 2 and a Pure3D 6mb Voodoo 1 card initially. Then eventually started upgrading to a Voodoo 2, and then when they got 3d integration, went with the Matrox G200 on up to the Parhelia... shame they eventually lost to the green and red guys, but the blue team invented multi-display setups, and that's still what they focus on.

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Quoting: ThreeEightySixHopefully the game won't have those original crap graphics!

I actually thought this looked fantastic back in the day, but then I had a Voodoo card.
Speaking of which, if it is still using the Quake 2 engine, would be cool to see ray tracing support!

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Quoting: bradgyOh good, they're still supporting Windows 7. An operating system which recently lost support from its actual developer. :D

But seriously, as a daily player I am crying internally.

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read this...

Let's support Windows 7 which is officially now a DEAD operating system, yet Linux which is getting more users for it every day...

I admit, I fell for it and bought Mechwarrior 5 on the Epic store... then a day later was like 'wait, I don't have the time to play it right now anyhow, and if it takes a year to come to Steam I have no issues with that... and maybe it'll work in Proton.' so I refunded it.

The sad part is, Epic used to be VERY pro Linux. Something happened with UTIII I think that just maybe soured them?

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Anyone able to get a gamepad to work on this? I was trying it through a Raspberry Pi 4 and Steam Link app, and the Gerty game worked, but I couldn't get this one to work.

Also, apparently Steam Link app does not support Vulkan renderer on this.

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Chromebooks are basically the newer version of the Netbook, but have Google in control, which ia a scary thing in a lot of our views.

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