The Circus Linux! website can be found here:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/circus-linux/ [External Link]

A Linux Journal article that covers Circus Linux! by Marcel Gagné can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/cooking-linux-learningdisguised [External Link]

And Bill Kendrick's personal webpage can be found here:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Eike2015 called and wants its Humble Bundle back!

Are they not all Steam keys though?

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This is about the third or fourth GOG.com giveaway where I find that the game is already in my library.

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Quoting: mr-victoryIf performance is a problem, what prevents you from using virtual machines?

With this game not all that much since it is not hardware accelerated, but that would be missing the point of the whole endeavour in this case. It is also not like the lags ever made much of a difference when playing the game, just that it was not as speedy on real hardware as the marketing copy promised.

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Quoting: GuestAny trouble with getting a 16bit X server to fire up? 8 and 16bit windows are something I'm surprised hasn't been emulated more properly for those games which need it.

Actually on Dianoga I typically keep it at 16 bit colour depth as 3D games seem bound to the X server colour depth as opposed to their own in-game settings, and I do not want the performance overhead most of the time.

As for 14 North Chilean Guanacos, I am afraid I had to look that up... :whistle:

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Quoting: robvvI was expecting a review of Llamatron ;-)

Ha, well, if we are looking for Linux releases of games from 8/16 bit computers, perhaps the next instalment will not disappoint. :whistle:

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Another review of the game on Linux can be found here:
http://mrsneeze.com/games/reviews/theocracy/index.html [External Link]

And more information on the corrupted saved game issue can be read here:
https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/6456/t1748995-load-error-768/ [External Link]

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Store page on GOG.com is up with all three platforms listed:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldurs_gate_dark_alliance_ii [External Link]

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I am still waiting on my finances to be in better shape before I pick up the first Dark Alliance. $38 CAD is quite a lot for a 20 year old game, even if I am willing to spend more for a native Linux version.

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Quoting: GuestI'm BTW always unwrapping the GOG dosbox games to use my systems dosbox. Not to save disk space, but I use dosbox-staging which is much better in handling fullscreen and non-standard screen resolutions...

In my case I built DOSBox Staging and then just dropped it over the DOSBox binaries provided by the GOG.com installers which also works seamlessly. DOSBox Staging gives a huge performance improvement in Build engine games like Blood, so it is something GOG.com themselves should really consider adopting. Yes, I know, BloodGDX, NBlood, and Raze are a thing, but I am becoming more and more of a purist with age... :whistle:

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