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 [External Link]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Quoting: lejimsterI never expected Abuse to be talked about on this site ever. I was only just talking about this game with a friend the other month as I was getting nostalgic. I didn't even know they did a Linux release. Neat.

I have touched on it in another article before, although it was sandwiched alongside the original Linux port of Doom after I got support for a.out binaries working.

Quoting: gbudnyOn the other hand, the application CD was added frequently to the boxed versions of Red Hat, and it would be difficult to check their content. The application CD contained many commercial and shareware applications for Linux.

I can at least confirm that Abuse is absent from the Red Hat Linux 5.2 EXTRA! package as I have been able to explore all the discs included with that, but seeing as this box set was from 1998 when Crack dot Com was already out of business and a.out support was being dropped, even this might be too late for it to have been included.

Finding Red Hat Linux packages from earlier than that also gets quite tricky, but I can confirm that the Abuse shareware RPM package was supplied with several of them.

Quoting: slaapliedjehttps://archive.org/details/abuse-v0-33
How about this one? Old crack dot com version.

Pretty sure that is the MS DOS shareware release as it only has the first four levels included. Regardless, I am avoiding covering abandonware for this series in favour of actual discs or free releases.

I was actually for a time quite skeptical that the mail order registered version of Abuse even existed, but I did eventually find some images of the packaging material and CD-ROM online, as well as a patch for MS DOS users to convert their Abuse 1.05 registered version to the Abuse 2.0 retail release.

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Quoting: gbudnyI know that Abuse was on the CD with old versions of Red Hat Linux. I don't know which version of Red Hat had the most recent version of this game. Maybe, it will be easier for you to check old versions of Red Hat. Then, you can try to find this specific version of Red Hat with Abuse on eBay or other places.

I have looked into this, and best as I can tell, it was only the shareware version of Abuse that Red Hat packaged alongside their distribution without the full registered data. Hence the RPM package that I grabbed from their servers, which in fact is what I used to install the shareware version for my article back when I played it in February.

Red Hat did sign a publishing deal for Golgotha but that of course was never finished:
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-crackdotcom [External Link]

Not long after Red Hat stated that they had no further interest in publishing games:
https://slashdot.org/story/98/11/05/105224/red-hat-not-interested-in-publishing-id-games [External Link]

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Quoting: gbudnyHow was your experience with the serial mouse on Linux?

Better than on Windows 98 as Red Hat still had drivers for it, so I just had to figure out the right serial device. Mouse was a cranky old beast as you would expect.

Quoting: gbudnySome people connected the SSD to old computers with Windows 98 and Mac OS X Tiger. You have this size limit, so I don't know if it will work on this hardware with the old version of Linux.

Ha, well, I do not even have SSDs in my main Arch Linux box yet; the two Western Digital 2 TB Greens and the 500 GB Blue that I installed 10 years ago are still going strong, so I never had a compelling reason to replace them.

Quoting: chickenb00I really love this series! Some like reading about repairing old muscle cars; I like reading about repairing period accurate 90s Linux desktops. Keep up the good work please, I need more!

I have a big list of planned future articles, and have a stack of games and boxes to work through yet. It is just a matter of finding the time for them. Cheers though. :happy:

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https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part32.html [External Link]

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As usual further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part31.html [External Link]

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