Linux Gaming - Retro Edition

doom

>>2904878
Mednafen is breddy good

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>>2904878

>Bumbing with other questions:

How about native retro games?
Is this even a thing?

Also: how about remakes?
Are there any re-released retro games that are now Linux-compatible?

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>>2904878

Forgot to add: let's forget about Wine.
I'm interested only in "non-Wine" gaming.

>>2904879
>doom

Ah, a classic!

>>2904881

Never even heard about it.
What kind of game is that?

>>2904887
an emulator

>>2904881
>>2904887
>>2904890

Nevermind, I checked it: so it's an emulator!

While I'm thankful for the info, I'm not really interested in emulators (or Wine).

http://icculus.org/lgfaq/

>>2904896

Thanks.

Any personal experiences with Linux (Retro) Gaming?

Dosbox runs on linux.

>>2904878
- rogue
- nethack and many, many other roguelikes
- xbill
- Marathon
- doom, quake, hexen, heretic, duke by source port
- sim city series
- shogo (semi since linux version was sometime after 2000..)

those just straight from my head i remember playing alot. but there were quite more.

>>2904913
>- sim city series

Really?
I have to check this out.

Also thanks for the list!

>>2904921

also ask here, since there are more people reading who might know more:
>>2753556

>>2904894
Then you're basically limited to source ports, engine remakes and clones of simple games.
Game releases for GNU/Linux only started around 2000.

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>>2904942
>>2905376
Geez guys, I just meant the hidden games in emacs. I didn't mean to start an argument.
Though it was expected.

>>2904878
ur-quan masters
the last starfighter
abuse
aleph one
opentyrian
freeciv
openttd is not retro but since it's just a clone of ttd i guess it counts

>>2906548
>the last starfighter
err i meant project starfighter (it's /usr/bin/starfighter, i don't bother knowing the full title)

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>>2904878
Pretty much the old school roguelikes. Crawl, Adom, Angband...

>>2906548
>abuse

absoluetly this.

also another one i just remembered:
- oxyd / enigma

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First time I ever saw a Linux box 20 years ago, it was running this

>>2904878
as far as native games:

doom, and most of id's other post doom games. gzdoom runs too but needs to be compiled from source.

aleph one runs, but has to be compiled from source.

unreal tournament 99 has a native installer and client from loki games, but idk if its available still.

other than that, all games for Linux are either not retro, emulated, or shitty ramdamadingdong pooinloo and vodka drunkinskiy programming students doing their 9001st remake of asteroids and Tetris.

>>2907053
>aleph one runs, but has to be compiled from source.
depends on your distro. some provide packages (i know openbsd does)

just installed MINT. Need a good front end for dosbox (I was using progamma on windows). Might make my own.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

>>2907896
>Need a front-end for DOS
I don't think you're ready for Linux just yet.

>>2907896
use the terminal

Play some Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Space Quest or Toonstruck with ScummVM. http://scummvm.org/compatibility/

Perhaps have a nice game of Dungeon Keeper, Daggerfall or Prince of Persia in DosBox? http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php

How about some first person shooters? Doom 1-3, Quake 1-4, Hexen, Heretic, Unreal Tournament 1-2004, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Serious Sam and Wolfenstein are all Linux native. Ports have also been done for KOTOR 2 and Neverwinter Nights and a bunch of other games.

Also tons of fan projects, including Commander Genius (Commander Keen), OpenRA (Command & Conquer & Red Alert), WarGus (Warcraft 2), fheroes 2 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2), VCMI (Heroes 3), xu4 (Ultima 4), Exult (Ultiva 7), OpenJK (Jedi Knight 1&2), GemRB (Baldur's Gate 1&2, Icewind Dale), OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon), CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), OpenMW (Morrowind), The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2), FreeCiv (Civilization 2) and so on...

>>2909064
My nigga. You sure know about your open source engine remakes. I'd also recommend the following:

OpenXcom - for Ufo defense and TFTD
OpenFodder - for Cannon Fodder. Version 1.0 just go released.
Dune Dynasty - for Dune 2

>>2904913
I thought the only Linux SimCity was the first one?

It had to be renamed to Micropolis, though.

Emulators aplenty, especially on Arch through yaourt, for whatever reason Ubuntushit doesn't give a fuck about emulation.
Supertux 2.
Emilia Pinball.
Browserquest and so on.
Chromium [shooter]
Super Maryo Chronicles
et c

>>2909178
Yes, the sourceport of Sim City 1, but from 3000 there's also an official Linux version. I think only 2000 is completly ignored.

>>2909484
Generally everything by Loki:
http://lokigames.com/products/
Some are borderline retro though(99/00)..

Speaking of Loki ports, don't forget Majesty!

marvelous game, original released in 2000

>Loki couldn't finish the Deus Ex linux port before going out of business

Feels bad man

>>2907313
True, and for the distros it doesn't have official packages, normally there's a PPA available.

thing is, if you want to play multiplayer (yeah, I know, it's a joke), most people use the most up to date version of A1, and the packages tend to not have that.

pioneerspacesim which is a remake of Elite 2

>>2904878
If you count emulation anon.

snes9x, gens are available and should be playable on 64 bit systems.

Virtualboyadvance, keep note, uses the command "vgba" on systems, which throws people off sometimes.

You can also learn emulation without need to use a GUI (mpv style).

Also, you can use WINE to play some games - but it's a bit dodgy, if you had a title in mind that doesn't work, let me know and I'll let you know what API calls are missing.

>>2917532
Most recommended emulators are open source and available for GNU/Linux as packages, binaries or source code to compile.
The most notable exceptions are some Japanese emulators like SSF.

This thread seems kind of silly, since the majority of '90s computer games were on dos/windows instead of linux (which hadn't really taken off yet).

>>2913084
except PPA is for ubuntu.

>>2917532
gambatte (gbc) and mgba (...gba) are both significantly better than vba at gameboy emulation

nestopia UE for nes (fceux second choice)

yabause

higan

vice for commodore 64

fuse (zx spectrum)

mupen64plus is really the only option for n64 on linux. not sure if it's better to use glide64mk2 or GLideN64 right now. cen64 has potential but right now isn't very useful

the rest aren't retro (ppsspp, dolphin, desmume, pcsx2, citra)

>>2904887
Barely retro, but Sacred gold on linux is pretty good(idk why, but linux wersion goes smoother on my pc)

>>2904878
Unreal Tournament has a Linux version but the game is not open source and it hasn't been updated. I think it has sound problems since it was designed for OSS, not ALSA.

>>2922268
I use osspd to fix this.

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Oolite. It's a clone of Elite which is /vr/.

This is the default look. People have made texture packs and ship packs and missions and all sorts of mods. You can fly an X-Wing. With a bit of effort you could make a Total Conversion.

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xkobo is pretty fun but I'm not sure if it's retro.

>>2923465
what's the bottom right panel on the screen for?

>>2923472
A map of the level, you can move around freely the goal is to destroy all of those big structures by shooting the yellow dot in the middle of each one.

>>2923480
green dot in the top right corner of that map is the player, and the map wraps, correct?

>>2923465
earliest date i can find is feb 2001, but might have had a release earlier

you'd have to be pretty dumb to complain about xkobo being not retro, it counts better than half the stuff in this thread that was released in the late 90s and has had continuous updates since then