Quoting: CybolicI think you got this link wrong though:

Quoting: HamishA detailed overview of Abuse versions can be seen in this VOGONS thread:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=6363 [External Link]

Maybe you meant to link to this one? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44100 [External Link]

Yep, 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.

Quoting: CalinouI gave Abuse a try recently, but I couldn't stand the low framerate.

I 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, but I could make do with the later Electronic Arts or Origin version as well thanks to the source code release.

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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 and as a German myself, from his science-fiction short stories in the c’t magazine I was reading at the time I thought he wrote those just as a hobby but looking at Wikipedia, it seems it was his job early on, where he even wrote some novels that I should check out some time.

Yeah, that scans, since his initial interest in the Doom source code was for a book deal that fell through:
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Bernd_Kreimeier [External Link]

These articles are kind of just old Linux storytime at heart, so no worries about getting off topic. :happy:

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThey are rage....... Brutal....... DOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

Nothing Brutal about Linux Doom, I can tell you that much. It can not even run SIGIL without a visplane overflow:
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Visplane_overflow [External Link]

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The article on a.out support by Jason Heiss can be read here:
https://aput.net/~jheiss/aout_redhat.shtml [External Link]

The Linux Doom FAQ by Steve VanDevender is archived here:
https://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/~stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html [External Link]

A review of Doom by Michael K. Johnson for Linux Journal can be found here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1 [External Link]

The files for the original Linux Doom port are mirrored here:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/doom/!INDEX.html [External Link]

My fake /dev/sndstat device can be seen here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/sndstat [External Link]

The RPM package for Abuse can be downloaded from here:
https://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/abuse-1.10-5.i386.rpm [External Link]

An RPM package for the patched Linux Doom binaries can be downloaded here:
https://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/doom-1.10-7.i386.rpm [External Link]

A press release on Red Hat partnering with Crack dot Com be be read here:
https://www.redhat.com/ja/about/press-releases/press-crackdotcom [External Link]

A detailed overview of Abuse versions can be seen in this VOGONS thread:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44100 [External Link]

The Linux Game Tome page for Abuse is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070227220513/http://happypenguin.org/show?Abuse [External Link]

Security reports on the exploits found with the SVGALib version of Abuse can be read here:
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19279 [External Link]
https://vulners.com/packetstorm/PACKETSTORM:15084 [External Link]

An article on the Quake source code leak from Wired can be read here:
https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake/ [External Link]

An interview with Dave Taylor on Linux gaming by Harley Jebens for Gamespot can be read here:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/okay-dave-taylor-why-linux/1100-2467851/ [External Link]

An interview with Dave Taylor on Linux gaming by James Hills for GA-Source is mirrored here:
https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/ddt.shtml [External Link]

And my launch command for Abuse is as follows:
sudo /usr/games/abuse.x11 -2 -size 640 480 -grab_pointer

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: HamishNope, for the same reason most older web browsers no longer work with modern websites

Welp, I could browse just fine from an iPad 2 running iOS 9 so I thought maybe there could be a chance.

Well, there is always The Old Net:
http://theoldnet.com [External Link]

Which GOL is just old enough for:
https://theoldnet.com/get?url=gamingonlinux.info&year=2010&scripts=false&decode=false [External Link]

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Quoting: mr-victoryCan you browse GamingOnLinux from that CD?

Nope, for the same reason most older web browsers no longer work with modern websites, which is the mass adoption of HTTPS starting around 2016 or so.

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Quoting: GuestPersonally I don't mind using slowly rolling distros

Until one day you realize you are in fact using Fedora. :wink:

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Quoting: systmrrrIs it possible to share an image of your retro gaming pc?

You can see some pictures of the computer in the first few articles I posted. I honestly do not have the best setup for it all, with the computer crammed into a corner on a filing cabinet up against my desk with my main Arch Linux computer.

I settle for an LCD monitor and an optical mouse despite them not being the most period accurate simply for the space convenience they offer.

Quoting: LightkeyI still play The Ace of Penguins Solitaire by DJ Delorie when I'm not in the mood for Mines.

There is an AUR package for them and I still play them quite regularly too, although the help screens no longer seem to work for me.

Quoting: GroganKnoppix was amazing back in the day. I think other distros learned a lot about hardware detection and automatic configuration from Knoppix.

Yep, I eventually just switched to using Fedora live media back when I still used it as my main distro, but it is clear how much all modern live Linux distros are indebted to Knoppix.

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The official news release for Knoppix 3.4 can be read here:
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html [External Link]

An article on the release of Knoppix 3.4 can be found here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/84851/ [External Link]

And the Knoppix 3.4 ISO can be downloaded here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppix-mirror/files/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN.iso/download [External Link]

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Quoting: Linuxerwhat you mean? im not scared. but im not techninal at all either and dont want to be ill just wait for the clickable whatever :heart:

Nothing wrong with taking the easy way in of itself, but if you go out of your way to NOT acquire knowledge, technical or not, then you are going to be spinning your wheels a lot. Like in this thread.

Running the Windows binaries through WINE is a serious suggestion if you would like to play right now.

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Quoting: PenglingWell well, X-Bomber [External Link] looks right up my alley. :grin: Thanks for that!

Just stumbled across another game going by the name XBomber but was also ported to SDL:
https://www.linuxmotors.com/linux/SDL_bomber/ [External Link]

Just to keep things nice and confusing. :whistle:

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