Quoting: slaapliedjeThe requirements on those should be fairly low, and it would be impressive to see how they run on a Pentium 2 or 3.

Based on my own experiences trying to get certain Indie games working on my brother's older but still much newer laptops you might be surprised. Despite how they look they are not programmed anywhere near as efficiently as actual retro titles. It still might be worth a go though.

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The final Game of the Year Edition installer can be downloaded here:
http://www.ut-files.com/index.php?dir=Patches/&file=ut-install-436-GOTY.run [External Link]

The UTGLR 3.6 renderer can be grabbed here:
http://www.ut-files.com/index.php?dir=Video_Renders/OpenGL/&file=utglr36_for_linux.zip [External Link]

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001101213320/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/ut.html [External Link]

A review of Unreal Tournament for linuxgaming.net is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030530121235/http://linuxgaming.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=13 [External Link]

A detailed retrospective of the game by LGR including on Linux can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRF06DpQE0c [External Link]

And my raw Unreal Tournament timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/ut99-timedemos.txt [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestThat doesn't mean there can't be popular approaches however, and actually it's highly likely that only a couple of package formats will be required (probably only .deb, and a tarball as a distro-agnostic approach) to cover the majority of users.

Just as an aside, I must admit to getting some small satisfaction when using Red Hat Linux 7.3 at how it was RPM packages that were the expected default with the software available at the time, with .deb packages being an afterthought. By the time I was using Fedora as my daily driver that had already switched outside of enterprise environments, so it did sometimes feel like you were being treated as a second class citizen.

Of course now I am on Arch with the wonder that is the AUR. I actually just setup vkQuake and Yamagi Quake II on my brother's new Pangolin laptop running Fedora 35, and I just got lazy and copied over the builds I made on my Arch machine using makepkg. These worked great, and better than the actually packaged version of Yamagi Quake II for Fedora which refused to play the music and videos properly.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySays it also supports doing various old Linux distributions. Maybe I could use it to play my old Loki games.

What is the support for GPU pasthrough like with this I wonder?

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Quoting: holisticboyDon't get me wrong, I prefer Goldeneye any day, but merit where merit is due in terms of the technology in SoF!

There was a mod for Blood II: The Chosen called "Limbloss" that functioned in much the same way but was a lot less elaborate. As for location based damage, SiN had that using the same engine years earlier. But neither of those games had the full power of the GHOUL system.

Quoting: rcritDon't want to be a downer, I've generally enjoyed this series, but this article seems more like a review of SoF than "getting old games to run".

Not sure what your point is here? If the article was just on what I needed to do to get the game running then it would be five paragraphs long and dry as birch bark. Loki did a good job on this, not much to talk about. I started this project by saying it was just a bit of fun, and it will remain so.

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The Soldier of Fortune song can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpRgTDPjMTY [External Link]

A review of the game by J. Neil Doane for Linux Journal can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4381 [External Link]

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223131525/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/sof/ [External Link]

And my launch command for Soldier of Fortune is as follows:
sof +set gl_dynamic 0 +set cl_lights 0 +set gl_gentextures_broken 0 +set gl_detailtexturing 0

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOoh, I have most of the Loki ports, but did not know they did some PPC ones.

You can download the PPC installers for them here:
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.lokigames.com/installers/ppc/ [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, for me the topic of building a Retro Linux computer would be to put together an old PPC mac and install Debian :P

Well, my graphics card at least is about right for an old Mac. :whistle:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeFun fact, Heretic II also got a commercial port on the Amiga.

Yep, for Hyperion Entertainment making Linux and Mac ports was always a side hustle, with the Amiga being their one true love.

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Last time I tried to install Heretic II on my modern Arch Linux system it worked fine in Software but would crash with OpenGL enabled. Not sure if Lutris includes a fix for that or not.

For these articles though I am always going to try to use the original installers first to be as period accurate as possible. Hence why I tracked down all the Serious Sam betas off icculus.org rather than using the LIFLG installer.

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