Star Wars: Tie Fighter Special Edition & Star Wars X-Wing Special Edition On GOG For Linux

I was one happy yabby when I spotted this :D \o/

Tie Fighter is my favorite Star Wars game of all time and one of my favorite space games. The 1995 collector's edition Tie Fighter is the definitive version to play. It has better resolution than the original DOS, voiced characters and includes expansions. The 1998 version was a different engine and I felt that the music was subpar. I'm glad to see that GOG included the 1995 version with their Linux release as it had previously been missing from the special edition.

I'd be all over this and buy it if it weren't for the fact that I made a backup of my own disc over a decade ago and still play it every once in a while through DOSBox.

Might pick up X-Wing since I lost the disc for that years ago though.

Nice! Thanks for the heads-up, I had totally missed that when I saw the sale.

If the new Battlefront is good when it's released, that would be my dream port on Linux. Shame it's EA though which means it will probably never happen :(

Steam just released these games too, without a Linux version.

Hi guys,

Judas from GOG here :)

Just wanted to comment on this part:

they don't generally do a lot of announcements for games that get Linux versions.

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement as I've posted an update in our "what just updated" thread ( http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7829 ) and we were generally rolling out a slew of updates for other Star Wars games, mostly new language additions :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the GOG forums :)

Steam just released these games too, without a Linux version.

Why no Linuxy on Steam? That just makes me feel like sad Keanu...

Dark Forces is also on sale for Linux:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces

And while not counting as a Linux sale, you can also get Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy to use in a source port thanks to Raven's source code release:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_jedi_outcast
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_jedi_academy

So you can really get your fill of Star Wars games from GOG at the moment.

they don't generally do a lot of announcements for games that get Linux versions.

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement as I've posted an update in our "what just updated" thread ( http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7829 ) and we were generally rolling out a slew of updates for other Star Wars games, mostly new language additions :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the GOG forums :)

Hi Judas, nice to see you visiting GOL :) Just an idea - I think it would be good to provide more exposure for games which get a version for an OS which wasn't available before (for instance Linux, OS X, etc.). Because for users of that OS it's an equvialent of the full blown release, while such announcment is made only for the initial one (which is often Windows only or Windows + OS X for example). That way all platforms would be treated equally. It shouldn't be hard to add that into the stream of releases on the front page. Right now Linux feels like second class citizen when it comes to release announcements on GOG.

If that stream is reserved for initial releases only, then another idea is to make another stream on the front page, for backlog subreleases. Shouldn't be hard either, but it would improve usability and discoverability immensely. I'll probably make a wishlist entry for that.

I loved X-Wing when I was kid. It was the first game I was actually better at than my brothers/dad. Looking forward to wasting many hours on this again.

Dark Forces is also on sale for Linux:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces

And while not counting as a Linux sale, you can also get Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy to use in a source port thanks to Raven's source code release:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_jedi_outcast
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_jedi_academy

So you can really get your fill of Star Wars games from GOG at the moment.

We also have the Rebel Assault games for Linux :)

http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_rebel_assault_1_2

Hi Judas, nice to see you visiting GOL :) Just an idea - I think it would be good to provide more exposure for games which get a version for an OS which wasn't available before (for instance Linux, OS X, etc.).

If that stream is reserved for initial releases only, then another idea is to make another stream on the front page, for backlog subreleases. Shouldn't be hard either, but it would improve usability and discoverability immensely. I'll probably make a wishlist entry for that.

Thanks for the welcome, Shmerl :) Also, you were missing in the update thread where I made that post about the TIE Fighter/X-Wing games getting Linux-compatible versions, usually you are the first to reply. I think you are slacking :P

As for the first part of the quote:

Personally speaking, we should reserve that for Linux native games instead of just hyping up DOS versions that were made Linux compatible via DOSBox (thank you AWESOME DOSBox!). The last time we hyped up some games that got a Linux compatible version, people were mighty ticked off that those were not native Linux versions but Wine wrapped Windows versions (I can't recall atm which games those were but you get the idea...)

The stream is reserved for initial releases and we do our best to mention all three supported operating systems but there are times that a Linux version gets delayed for whatever reason so we can't honestly advertise on the front page that there is a Linux version on our site. We do try to let people know that the Linux version is coming but only if we are 100% sure that we won't be waiting forever and a day for it.

As for general promotion of actual native versions, we do what we can whether it's via Twitter or Facebook and I think some of our community twitch.tv streamers are confirmed penguins so they do their part as well :)

Emailing us would do the job ;)

Hi guys,

Judas from GOG here :)

Just wanted to comment on this part:

they don't generally do a lot of announcements for games that get Linux versions.

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement as I've posted an update in our "what just updated" thread ( http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post7829 ) and we were generally rolling out a slew of updates for other Star Wars games, mostly new language additions :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the GOG forums :)

Any chance of a Wing commander port to Linux ? Its something I really miss from the Amiga days, Just port whatever the best sound and graphics version was.

Also .. GOG galaxy is something I think a lot of people are looking forward to, but with 1200 games on Steam for Linux, surely those Devs / publishers would want to get on your platform too ? its hardly any work to email some files over and have more customer coverage so i cant see it being a problem ( unless valve start making publishers sign a steam only licence EULA )

We didn't get too much of a chance to do a HUGE announcement

Hi, it’s great to see someone from GOG here. It would be great if GOG provided an RSS feed for new Linux games and Linux games on sale, because the main (and only?) RSS feed is pretty much useless as the articles never state if the games are for Linux. And I see it also contains the same article in 4 different languages… Not very convenient.

That's what I just wanted to propose too :) Probably there should be an RSS feed for every supported OS (and may be a combined one, or some way to set a custom filter with several OSes). That would satisfy most users.

Emailing us would do the job ;)

Drop me an email address via PM, please :)

Any chance of a Wing commander port to Linux ? Its something I really miss from the Amiga days, Just port whatever the best sound and graphics version was.

Also .. GOG galaxy is something I think a lot of people are looking forward to, but with 1200 games on Steam for Linux, surely those Devs / publishers would want to get on your platform too ? its hardly any work to email some files over and have more customer coverage so i cant see it being a problem ( unless valve start making publishers sign a steam only licence EULA )

Wing Commander on Linux, hmm, I don't know. That's up to the publisher, EA, as we can't make Linux-compatible versions on our own without the legal backing, sorry :/

As for Galaxy, I think it will do well with devs/pubs :) It's in its infancy at the moment but give it time as it's too early to really give any solid information about it :)

Hi, it’s great to see someone from GOG here. It would be great if GOG provided an RSS feed for new Linux games and Linux games on sale, because the main (and only?) RSS feed is pretty much useless as the articles never state if the games are for Linux. And I see it also contains the same article in 4 different languages… Not very convenient.

With regards to complaints about dosbox/wine/etc. releases, I don’t know, stating that they are dosbox/wine/etc. releases and the original release date of the game should help? :) I don’t mind Wine releases (Flatout works perfectly for me), but I had many troubles with one of your DOSBox games so I’m avoiding them now.

Regarding the RSS feed, I recommend making a wishlist entry on our wishlist :) I have never even been anywhere near anything RSS so I am not one to talk about it :) (I am old school and RSS is strange and incomprehensible to me unlike Mint 17 :D)

As for labeling, we already do so for the Wine games along with ScummVM. I mentioned the complaints only because there were some grumblings during our initial launch but I think that MAY have been because of the lack of a given label :) In short, we want to avoid pulling the "Yes, it's TOTALLY the Linux version of the game...don't mind the Wine..." card on people who are very technically literate :)

If you had troubles with one of our DOSBox games, why did you not write to Support? We are quite willing to help and we have competent staff that know their Linux. In fact, I wrote a support ticket for one of our games because a) I am still learning how games are put together in Linux as opposed to Windows and b) it was a really weird issue that required a lot of diving into logs and files and so on :) So, take it from me, our Support is awesome!

Thanks for pointing out that it's on GNU/Linux now. I was looking at this the other day and thought "meh", I'll pass for now if it's Windows-only. Now I'll just have to buy it.