Just as a couple of additions, Odyssey By Car actually also runs alright on my modern Arch Linux computer. The sound effects do seem to have a slight delay, and the full screen mode does not work, but other than that it seems to be about the same as when running it on period hardware. It is kind of nice being able to crank all of the graphics settings to the max without the computer breaking a sweat.

And to just further taunt me, there are now two cheaply priced big boxes of the Loki Software release of Civilization: Call To Power listed on eBay. The only catch? Both of the boxes are for the German version of the game. I hope someone over in Deutschland gets to have a good time with them.

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Something to be aware of is that all transactions on the Zoom Platform are charged in US Dollars, and that you "will be charged for any conversion fees by the payment provider". So foreign buyers beware.



Anyway, I just tried their wrapper for the original Duke Nukem game, and the bundled DOSBox-X failed at first as it could not find libpcap.so.0.8 on my system. A quick symbolic link to libpcap.so.1.10.3 later and I was off to the races. Not going to hold that against them; Arch Linux users are supposed to take this kind of thing on the chin.

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If they can get the native Postal 2 updates sold outside of Steam that would be me saying hallelujah.

Quoting: NezchanThey can keep their collection of Duke Nukem variants.

You do realize how remarkable it is that they can even sell Duke Nukem given the legal situation with Gearbox right?

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Quoting: gbudnyIt's great that people remember Turbo Sliders. It was a popular game, and now it's a freeware

I went ahead and tried it on Dianoga but as expected it requires too new a glibc version. That said, it does seem to work just fine on my modern Arch Linux system once I removed the bundled "libz.so.1" library file. Considering the final copyright is from 2016 I really should not be too surprised though.

Quoting: gbudnyWe 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.

I remember playing the demo for H-Craft Championship back in the day. Since then the source code has been released too.

Quoting: gbudnyThere was a car simulation called Odyssey By Car ... 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.

Another game I did not know about, so cheers for that. The demo for Odyssey By Car from the Internet Archive does work well on Dianoga; all I had to do was provide executable privileges to the "odysscar" and "res/uslproc" files. If I could ever get my hands on the full version CD-ROM I could see myself writing a full article on it, but it is still more of a driving simulation than a racing game.

Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerWell, the next one doesn't sound like Civ:CTP

Well, it certainly is not going to be SimCity 3000 Unlimited as of right now. Someone posted an eBay listing for the Loki jewel case for only $20 CAD just as I was finally falling asleep last night, and of course it was sold by the time I woke up the next morning. I am still kicking myself about that.

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Quoting: LightkeyWhat about Tux Racer?! Even developed in Canada! Just kidding. :tongue:

Well yeah, that arguably became commercial, but it does not have you racing cars. Nor did Soul Ride from LGP. I would consider both to be more sports games personally.

Quoting: LightkeyThere was a similar commercial game released (only digitally) around the time called Turbo Sliders [External Link], I remember writing a news for it. Although now looking at the date, it was end of 2004, so a little later.

Ah never heard of this one. Good to know, even if it would be a little late for Dianoga.

Quoting: LightkeyFor the next article I'm guessing SuperTuxKart (which started as TuxKart in 2000 but the first playable version was apparently only released in 2007)? Or Widelands? It couldn't be a RPG with hexagons, could it? :whistle:

Looks like you are going to have to keep guessing. :wink:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI don't know what happened to my copy of Devil's Whiskey... but I never could get it to work, it requires an old Python or something.

Well, that kind of is the whole point of this computer, so I should really at least try the demo at some point.

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The Trophy website on SourceForge can be found here:
https://trophy.sourceforge.io/ [External Link]

The ClanLib and Hermes RPM packages I used can be downloaded here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/clanlib-hermes-valhalla-rpm-packages.tar [External Link]

And an article covering Trophy by J. Neil Doane for Linux Journal is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011030153203/https://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/0026.html [External Link]

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Quoting: whizseThe tourist is another fantasy reference. Based on the Twoflower character in the Discworld series.

I suspected as much, but at the risk of sounding heretical again, I only really know of Terry Pratchett by reputation. Good to have that confirmed.

Quoting: LightkeyAs a child? Way to go, making me feel old from the first line. :sad:

You're not old, I'm just generationally misplaced. :wink:

Quoting: LightkeyAlso at the end, Shirley continuing in Part 23?

Ah yes, that's the problem with laying down track while the the train is oncoming. Fixed now.

Also ended up having to publish the article far later than intended as I was stuck waiting to see a doctor for my throat infection and my mobile data failed me. I'll muddle through somehow.

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The RPM packages I used can be downloaded here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/nethack-falconseye-1.9.3-rpm-packages.tar [External Link]

The Falcon's Eye SourceForge page can be found here:
http://falconseye.sourceforge.net [External Link]

An article on the development of Falcon's Eye by Howard Wen is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030621055556/http://www.onlamp.com:80/pub/a/onlamp/2003/01/02/falconseye.html [External Link]

An article on free games including Falcon's Eye by Mike Diehl for Linux Journal can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-free-games-linux [External Link]

An article exploring role-playing games for GNU/Linux is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071125091054/http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/role_playing_games_gnu_linux [External Link]

And an article exploring NetHack in general by Marcel Gagné for Linux Journal can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8491 [External Link]

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Quoting: LightkeyOne of the rarer ones I have on CD. :grin:

Would love to see some pictures of your full collection, but it is good to know that I am not missing much by not having the Bunnies disc to show.

I probably would not have given Bunnies an article on the basis of just the shareware without Jump 'n Bump and the fact BlackHoleSun Software came up organically with the last one.

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