Quoting: gbudnyWhere did you find it?

It was actually stumbling across an eBay listing for Tournament Poker 2005: No Limit Texas Hold 'Em which was a retail variant of DD Poker that led me to Donohoe Digital that led me to War! Age of Imperialism.

Pretty sure only the Windows and Mac versions were actually included on that poker disc, not that it matters since DD Poker is a freeware game now.

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Again, the usual bevy of links can now be found at the dedicated Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part30.html [External Link]

In fact, I have been going on a bit of a spree finding old Linux gaming coverage on the Wayback Machine and then adding additional links to the previous parts, so be sure to check those out if interested. Lots of period reviews and articles to be found there.

You can now also browse by featured games or topics from the index:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/index.html [External Link]

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My usual bevy of links can now be found on the dedicated Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part29.html [External Link]

Quoting: gbudnyI was trying to play Odyssey by Car on Ubuntu 20.4, but there was an issue with the fullscreen mode. I didn't spend too much time trying to sort it out. I switched back to playing Odyssey by Car on Suse 10.1.

Yeah, the issue there is that the game talks directly to the XF86VidMode Extension, hence why the later update of the game calls libXxf86vm.so.1 instead in an attempt to maintain this. As far as I can tell, the game does not use any kind of abstraction layer such as SDL to handle things.

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Quoting: IggiI assume you are talking about the Origin release of Abuse? I've been looking for the original release from crack.com for years now without success...

Indeed. I had trouble even finding pictures of the original Crack dot Com registered version online, to the point I started wondering if only the shareware existed outside of the Origin retail release for a little while. Even the Origin version is going for crazy money on eBay right now.

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Well, that is the cheapest I have seen the Dark Alliance games get. Just a shame I am bit strapped for cash at the moment. :unsure:

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Hey Toploader, any chance of seeing the Linux version end up on the Zoom platform?

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So my brother come across a GameSpot article from when 100 Great Linux Games was first announced:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/take-two-jumps-on-linux/1100-2446349/ [External Link]

Posting here for posterity.

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Quoting: KlaasFunny. Does that mean that they will finish Blood: Fresh Supply which according to Night Dive was abandoned due to Atari killing the project?

Quoting: eldarionNightdive is a hit and miss company.

Yeah, given the mixed track record Night Dive Studios has, I have a hard time telling if this is good news or bad. Their Linux support has been patchy at best and the quality of their work has not always been there.

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Quoting: Liam DaweDeveloped by the minds behind the Marble Blast series, if any of you are familiar with that.

Oh the irony. :whistle:

Nice to see Ethan Lee doing his thing.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeRight, cards before the Parhelia had all the drivers open source, with a binary blob for some specific thing (I want to say hardware accelerated video decoder?) As I stated above, they had an installer for the Parhelia drivers, and they simply needed build-essentials and the linux-headers package to be installed in Debian based distributions.

Thanks for the correction, I did not know about the Parhelia using a binary blob. I guess Matrox wanted to keep with the times, which in the early to mid 2000s, was whatever Team Green was doing.

Quoting: slaapliedjeSadly their hardware implementation lacked something to support Doom 3 correctly, and that ultimately killed the card (ironic as many people claim Doom, and it's lack of it on the Amiga platform is what killed the Amiga.)

And Quake killed Cyrix, so John Carmack will dig your grave. :whistle:

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