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About the games themselves.
Linux gaming news
Linux meta gaming site for German speaking folk.
Your one stop shop for buying any commercial Linux game (software vendors like Tribsoft and Loki have online shops at their websites too).
They've got the best prices for Linux games I've ever seen.
Loki maintains an online ordering system for their games (they no longer sell Quake 3).
As the company that brought CTP and quake3 to Linux, Loki is the father of Linux gaming. They were the first and have, by far, the most titles available. Loki ports games to Linux, mostly using the SDL library. They have so many games (I own ALL of them) that I won't even try to describe them all.
Currently they only have Jagged Alliance 2, an EXCELLENT rpg/strat which claimed 2+ weeks of my life, but are coming out with Europai Universalis, Majesty and Unfinished Business. As of 3Jan01, Mathieu Pinard of Tribsoft said that he was taking a break and Tribsoft would no longer release games for awhile. He'll still support JA2 but don't expect patches or updates.
This is my favorite game. More violent than Quake. More nudity than Hustler. More camp than Liberacce. It's a comic book on your monitor. If anyone knows why the author didn't pursue Hopkins II, please tell me!
I bought it but haven't played it yet.
They offer Reel Deal Slots, which is very nicely done! I'm not much for poker/card/gambling games, but this game is impressive. They have other releases, but have since dropped Linux from their list of OS's to publish games for.
A realtime strat where you play an Aztec leader by Ubisoft. You'd never know this game has a Linux port. In 10 minutes of surfing, I just barely found any references to this game being available on Linux. Linux dollars don't mean much here. Not even a mention on happypenguin.org!
This company has ported Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (an anime inspired Robotech based FPS). They're also in the process of porting SiN, a very cool looking FPS; looks similar to SoF. The demo is awesome, but I heard the project might be stalled. They've ignored all my emails.
Illwinter software, formerly Bogus Game Design, specializes in turn based strategy games for Linux, Solaris and Windows. They're working on HP-UX. They currently have Dominions and Conquest of Elysium in their list of titles.
They have only a single release which is all the talk of the gaming scene (as of Jan 2001) named Uplink. Uplink is a simulated hacking tool, which allows you to perform various acts of high-tech computer crime. You make money by hiring out your skills as a freelance hacker.
First Person Shooters
Linux meta-site for first person shooters
Linux meta-site for first person shooters
Linux Quake I effort
Half-life on Linux
Three main Doom efforts
A GPL cross platform Doom engine
A GPL cross platform Doom engine
Non-GPL Doom engine (source available)
Interactive Fiction
Scott Adam's mebsite
Infocom on Linux website
Very cool interactive fiction site
If you're having problems with hardware acceleration, the DRI User Guide is mandatory reading.
Linux Publishing doesn't sell directly to the public, but provides professional game publishing to authors of publishing. I think this means disk copying, packaging and selling to retailers.
Mesa homesite; see question 2.3.
XFree86.org site
SDL's Homepage; see question 2.8.
OpenAL's website; see question 2.11.
GGI's homepage; see question 2.9.
It's generally easier to get native code working, but for software which which will never be ported, there's always emulation.
dosemu's website. dosemu emulates DOS and some win32 applications.
wine's website. Emulates win32 applications.
These people are implementing DirectX within Wine's framework. They have an interesting business model. Their code will, at first, be commercial. They'll release code every so often under the open-source wine license.