Meanwhile I have somehow managed the impossible and have kept my same Arch Linux install going for over a decade now. Luck or dark magic, you decide...

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> It feels bad to skip a ND release, especially since this port is built off the original source code

It isn't, it is a reverse engineer just like like the excellent community ports are.

Night Dive has indeed been hindered by licensing issues given the very narrow terms they were offered by Atari, but Fresh Supply has always been something of a bungle, which they are now going out and asking people to pay for yet again.

EDIT: Okay, they are using original source code this time apparently.

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I'm still waiting for the first POSTAL Redux to show up for Linux on Zoom (or GOG.com but it is not even listed there) before I would consider buying it.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part47.html [External Link]

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part46.html [External Link]

> One technical question: When upgrading libraries like SDL from Red Hat 8.0, how do you manage potential conflicts with software that still relies on the older versions? Do you use symlinks or isolate environments, or is there a method to ensure system stability while updating?

Really the package manager takes care of that within reason. In the case of SDL I just removed the original SDL packages and any dependencies, and then installed the new packages in their place along with whatever packages I was told were removed. That I was able to install yum thanks to Fedora Legacy helped a lot with this.

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Cheers for the kind comments everyone. :happy:

> In my understanding Lost Boys did not close, they became Guerilla Games.

You are not wrong in that Lost Boys Games did become Guerrilla Games, but best as I can tell, that is separate from the Lost Boys Media Lab whose work is described here; certainly Roll'm Up itself from 1997 predates the founding of Lost Boys Games by a number of years. That said, this is certainly far more complicated than I first assumed.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part45.html [External Link]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPSn1NcAix8 [External Link]

If you can forgive the swearing, this is a very accurate response to that part of the game...

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part44.html [External Link]

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