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Started by Nick Murphy August 22, 1999 08:47 PM

4 comments, last by Nick Murphy 24 years, 10 months ago

Nick Murphy

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July 15, 1999 01:55 AM

There are loads! Not many commercial games though. All
of ID's stuff has been ported to Linux, if that takes
your fancy. Quake 2 is being sold in boxes for Linux,
but if you have the full Windows version you can
download the Linux wrappers.

Your best bet is to check out www.linuxgames.com,
which has a nifty search engine.

Nurgle

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August 03, 1999 04:54 PM

To 2 most popular commercial Linux games are:
Civ 2: Call to power (Loki) and
Hopkins FBI (not sure who made it)

Loki are also porting several other major games to Linux (Myst I think), and seceral publishers are showing interest in Linux...

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Anonymous

August 03, 1999 10:36 PM

Loki is porting Myth 2: Soulblighter from Bungie. I'm a huge Myth fan myself, but it's one of those games that you either love or hate. Also, the interface has a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, you'll be using it on your desktop to try to rotate around your icons!

Anyway, the demo's out, although it's 60MB, and i suggest you try it out. Aside from that, i don't know about any yet-unmentioned finished games out there that are really comercial quality, but there are plenty of games that are under development, and also quite a few that are fun, if not comercial quality.

-Shelrem

Zuvembi

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August 04, 1999 10:10 AM

Another good place to look for Linux games is 'The Linux Game Tome' at happypenguin.org Most of the games on their are trivial, but some are fairly cool. Loki, which was mentioned earlier is at www.lokigames.com. They are porting Myth II soulblighter (a demo is available currently), Railroad Tycoon, and Eric's ultimate solitaire. Additionally they are supposed to be porting four other games this year, but I do not believe that they have been announced yet.

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[This message has been edited by Zuvembi (edited August 04, 1999).]