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Kasumi_Ninja
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 Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: Which old (loki) Linux games are still working? |
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I wanted to order some old Linux games. I wonder though which one are still working (e.g. with the new glibc) and/or are to be expected to work in the future. here are some examples:
| Code: | Civilization: Call to Power
Myth II Soulblighter (not working?)*
Heavy Gear II
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Quake III Arena
Tribes 2
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2
Soldier of Fortune
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Rune Bundle: Rune and Halls of Valhalla
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If I understand correctly it almost impossible to get Myth2 working. |
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whig
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| My fav game Q3A is still going strong. Soldier of Fortune 1 is good, even better is Return to Castle Wolfenstein. |
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Kasumi_Ninja
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| whig wrote: | | My fav game Q3A is still going strong. Soldier of Fortune 1 is good, even better is Return to Castle Wolfenstein. |
I have no real worries for Q3A since it's GPL'ed  . Is their a Linux version for RtCW? |
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whig
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Kasumi_Ninja
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Kewl  . Does this work with the Windows game you can find everywhere? (just like Doom and Quake) or do I need to order a special Linux version? |
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whig
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Different editions of RtCW require different linux installers - original, GOTY, extended (not 100% sure how far it goes) - but you should be able to install in Wine/XP and copy the data files over. Try the linux demo first to see if you like it, 115MB download according to portage. |
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Kasumi_Ninja
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| whig wrote: | | Different editions of RtCW require different linux installers - original, GOTY, extended (not 100% sure how far it goes) - but you should be able to install in Wine/XP and copy the data files over. Try the linux demo first to see if you like it, 115MB download according to portage. |
Do you happen to know whcih version is working with the rtcw ebuild? They sell a budget version off this game here but I am not certain it will work? |
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rodoke
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I just installed Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri yesterday on my Core 2 Duo machine. Portage set everything up and it works perfectly for me.
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whig
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Aniruddha wrote: | | Do you happen to know whcih version is working with the rtcw ebuild? They sell a budget version off this game here but I am not certain it will work? |
Sorry no, I did a manual install. It was a long time ago but I do remember it wasn't difficult. |
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Yggdrasil
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| rodoke wrote: | | I just installed Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri yesterday on my Core 2 Duo machine. Portage set everything up and it works perfectly for me. |
Does it play the videos in-game for you? I installed it, and can't see the videos, but I can hear them. I just don't get it (they open fine in xine/mplayer). |
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rodoke
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| Yggdrasil wrote: | | Does it play the videos in-game for you? I installed it, and can't see the videos, but I can hear them. I just don't get it (they open fine in xine/mplayer). |
Yeah, I can see and hear everything just fine.
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Yggdrasil wrote: | | rodoke wrote: | | I just installed Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri yesterday on my Core 2 Duo machine. Portage set everything up and it works perfectly for me. |
Does it play the videos in-game for you? I installed it, and can't see the videos, but I can hear them. I just don't get it (they open fine in xine/mplayer). |
Same here 
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You could try using the instructions on the Gentoo Wiki at HOWTO Running Old Loki Games which I'd written for all my games which were previously installed in a dedicated partition from an old distribution prior to switching to Gentoo and so didn't want to use portage for them. It includes contributions and testing from other users for games which I don't own.
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| CivCTP doesn't work here, which is a shame. I found an ebuild that updated it to the latest version, but the patches aren't hosted any more. |
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Kasumi_Ninja
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| swanson wrote: | | You could try using the instructions on the Gentoo Wiki at HOWTO Running Old Loki Games which I'd written for all my games which were previously installed in a dedicated partition from an old distribution prior to switching to Gentoo and so didn't want to use portage for them. It includes contributions and testing from other users for games which I don't own. |
I find a problem with the wiki that information is outdated incomplete. FOr example if you search the forums for Myth II you see lots of users having trouble getting it running at all. I have the Windows version whcih latest patch is 1.6. The Linux version is unfortunately forever stuck on 1.3. I hope all people responding to this thread also update the wiki 
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| swanson wrote: | | You could try using the instructions on the Gentoo Wiki at HOWTO Running Old Loki Games which I'd written for all my games which were previously installed in a dedicated partition from an old distribution prior to switching to Gentoo and so didn't want to use portage for them. It includes contributions and testing from other users for games which I don't own. |
Your post finally got me motivated to get the old Loki games I own working again after the last glibc update wrecked most of them. Like you, I had these games installed outside of portage in /usr/local since they were copied-over from other distros many times. I believe I originally installed them before Gentoo even existed.
Initially I tried using the loki-compat libs in portage, but it seemed like many of the old libs needed weren't available in that package. After un-emerging that, I then d/l'ed and installed in /usr/local the tarball of compat. libs linked in the wiki. Followed the rest of the instructions and all the games started working fine.
At one point I probably had all the Loki games, but now that only games still installed are Sim City 3000 Unlimited and Alpha Centauri. Good old Eric's Ultimated Solitaire (EUS) didn't need the compat libs. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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I also understand that Loki 's Soldier of Fortune can't be patched to the latest version thus making it impossible for online play .
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Aniruddha wrote: | | I also understand that Loki 's Soldier of Fortune can't be patched to the latest version thus making it impossible for online play . |
I'm sure that's true, but SOF's main strength was it's single-player mission anyway. After all these years have passed since the game's introduction, SOF's online presence has to be very small. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Civ Call To Power (CivCTP) still works here. Unpacked into a dir, used the static binary.
Once every 100+ hours of gaming in crashes - but that is nothing new.
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"Return to castle Wolfenstein" is realy a great game with superb effects even on my ancient 1Ghz machine. I can play it with high detail at 1280x1024.
I just reanimated it yesterday and I'm really stunned.
It's fun playing it in easy-mode.
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tp11235
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri |
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Hi,
This is the game I really want to get working. Rodoke: Are you talking about the Loki port of SMAC or the Windows version running under WINE?
Either way what did you do toy get it running? I can get the install started with the Windows version in WINE but then I get an error about data transfer - 113 and it stops installing.
Any hints or clues?
Tim. |
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Dirk.R.Gently
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I need to try, need to try one of these. I just purchased Heavy Metal FAKK2 from a friend. Only a couple bucks so I tried the emerging with portage but it can't find the cdrom. So I tried the installer here:
http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=68
Still the same thing though. The CD mounts and operates just find normally however, I've had zero problems with it. /dev/cdrom point to the correct device. Any ideas why this might be occurring?
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qubix
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Loki released Railroad Tycoon 2, which IMHO is very kewl, and it still kicks ass on gentoo. I remember installing civctp some time ago and it also did work.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Dirk.R.Gently wrote: | | it can't find the cdrom |
As always, look inside the ebuild.
/usr/portage/games-action/fakk2/fakk2-1.02.ebuild
So, if your CD does not contain a "fakk" directory, then you have a CD in a different layout to that expected. The solution is to enhance the ebuild to add support for the new layout. E.g. see bug. |
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