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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 37: Dashing Through the Snow
20 December 2023 at 12:42 am UTC

My main concern with the lack of snow here is we were already coming out of drought conditions, and with how bad the wildfires were last spring and the fact I need to regrow my pastures, we need all the moisture we can get. Hopefully the heavens will open up at some point in the new year.

Quoting: gbudnyDid you try to contact them and ask about the catapult?
I picked up my copy of Soul Ride for quite cheap on eBay so I have had no contact with Slingshot Game Technology themselves. Based on the Wayback Machine it looks like they took their online store down sometime in 2016 but were still selling both The Catapult and Soul Ride up until that point. I would hazard a guess they are no longer in business.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 37: Dashing Through the Snow
19 December 2023 at 5:50 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI have never gotten on well with snow games...... Maybe because im an aussie and ive never seen this mythical thing called "snow" in real life........
I would make some smart-arse Canadian comment, but we got a dump of snow the week before Halloween which then all melted, and have not had another real snowfall since. El Niño is working overtime this year.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 37: Dashing Through the Snow
18 December 2023 at 8:52 pm UTC Likes: 5

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part37.html

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 36: Entertainment for X Windows
15 December 2023 at 12:12 am UTC Likes: 1

There is also a list on the Libregamewiki:
https://libregamewiki.org/Linux_Games_%26_Entertainment_for_X_Windows

In terms of included Bomberman clones there is also XBlast.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 36: Entertainment for X Windows
14 December 2023 at 5:57 pm UTC

Quoting: gbudnyI have to try L.O.S.E.R Corps because it looks great ... I think that I never played it.
It is very much a prototype rather than an actualized game but it definitely had promise at the time.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 36: Entertainment for X Windows
12 December 2023 at 5:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part36.html

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 35: The New Stories
15 November 2023 at 11:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: gbudnyDo you remember the name of this Linux library? ... Did you find any information in a Readme file or instructions about Linux?
"gamei386.so - New game code for Linux (Compiled on Redhat 5.1)" - readme-1.1.txt

They also released the source code for the game library in the zaero-src-1.1-2.zip archive. Hence this:
https://github.com/yquake2/zaero

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 35: The New Stories
14 November 2023 at 4:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Well, in 1998 that did not seem quite so fast, but yeah. Daikatana was pilloried for taking around four years to develop, and now that would be considered a reasonable turnaround.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 35: The New Stories
14 November 2023 at 5:01 am UTC Likes: 2

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part35.html

Quoting: LanzThe base Quake 2 game is so much better than the unofficial expansions that you're better off just playing through it again. The official expansions, however, packed in a quality level that's about 80% as good as what id released.
I don't know, as time goes on, I am finding myself drawn more and more to these flawed old games. There is a certain charm to them, and you learn more about the time period by playing these than you would by just sticking to the touchstone releases that everyone already remembers.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 34: Abusing the System
7 November 2023 at 10:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

These are the best quality images I have found of it:





The Crack dot Com version has a red Abuse logo while the Origin/EA version has a blue Abuse logo.