GOG have now added two classic Star Trek games to their collection with Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Star Trek Judgement Rites.
Note: Both games will be using DOSBOX due to their age.
They are part of a series as Star Trek Judgement Rites takes place right after Star Trek 25th Anniversary. Apparently a mission in Judgement Rites is a direct sequel to the final mission in the 25th Anniversary game too.
I never actually finished every episode of the original series, and apparently these games have been counted as “the lost fourth season” according to wikipedia. I should probably go watch them to boost my nerd points up somewhat.
I think it’s fantastic to have a website that keeps adding classic games to their collection. So Linux users get a legal and supported option for buying these games.
About the 25th Anniversary game
Fasten your seat belts, bring your seat back to an upright position, you are about to pilot a Federation Starship on a wild roller coaster ride through the final frontier.
Star Trek™: 25th Anniversary is a point-and-click adventure with multiple solutions and moral choices, combined with a first person starship simulator. As Captain Kirk, you'll control phasers, photon torpedoes, shields, and communications during eight separate space and ground missions. Visit different worlds and then join a landing party sent down to map and interact with alien races and artifacts.
Piloting the U.S.S. Enterprise is a thrill in itself, but the actual voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols will make your adventure truly out of this world.
About Judgment Rites
Captain's log, stardate 6238.4. There is no doubt that you're being watched. By whom and by what type of life form is not determined. Even Spock has not been able to accurately assess this data. The occurrences are just too strange.
Star Trek™: Judgment Rites, a sequel to Star Trek™: 25th Anniversary, brings you back as Captain James T. Kirk along with your entire crew, as the 5 year Mission continues with 8 new, thought-provoking episodes. The tension increases as you beam down to mysterious worlds and encounter strange adversaries in situations that simply defy logic. Is that truly an ancient WWI triplane heading straight for you at Warp 9? How can your sensors suddenly report life forms on a dead planet? You're a long way from Starfleet Command and only you can discover what - or who - is challenging you beyond your wildest nightmares. Or can you?
How do they run?
Thanks to our friends at GOG, I was gifted a copy of each to check they run okay, and to be able to report back to you on this.
I tested them both using the GOG .deb installer files, and the installation was pretty painless. You do need to use the terminal for this though, but it's extremely simple stuff. Otherwise, if you download the .tar files for all other distributions you just extract it, and run the start.sh file.
Both games load up fine which did surprise me, and you can happily re-live Star Trek in low resolution glory from the 90's. It's really great to be able to play older games like this, and actually have them "just work" like they should. That "just work" fact is the same for the .deb files and the .tar files.
They are more than a little clunky due to their age, and no alt+tab support by default. Thankfully it does use SDL2, so you can use alt+enter to bring it to windowed mode. If your mouse is locked, you can also use CTRL+F10 to unlock your mouse. Once you learn this it's a much nicer experience.
If you wish to mess around with their configuration files, you can find them in /opt/GOG Games/game folder/, or if you download using their tar files you will find them directly in the extracted folder.
Overall, I'm really impressed at how well GOG have done with it. Much, much nicer than downloading a Windows game and setting up DOSBox (I despise setting up DOSBox correctly for each game), so kudos to GOG for this. Being counted as a Linux sale for whoever bugs it is also a bonus point over buying a Windows copy.
Check out Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Star Trek Judgement Rites at GOG.
As a big Star Trek fan, I approve. Will you be checking them out? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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As a big Star Trek fan myself, I plan to get these once I find some free time or there's a sale.
It's good to see GOG doing the work on getting DOSBox just right. That's tricky sometimes.
Another thing to note: ScummVM could use help getting these games supported. There's a work in progress version of ScummVM with support on Github. More info at http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Startrek
It's good to see GOG doing the work on getting DOSBox just right. That's tricky sometimes.
Another thing to note: ScummVM could use help getting these games supported. There's a work in progress version of ScummVM with support on Github. More info at http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Startrek
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DOSbox configuration is pretty trivial. So I usually prefer to use my system DOSbox with GOG games, instead of the bundled one.
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I just reinstalled fs-uae with the intention of playing 25th anniversary again. I might get the talkie version from GOG instead now
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Aww, I loved these games back in the days. If I remember correctly, I bought "25th Anniv" twice, once on 3,5" disks and a second time on cd to get the voiced version (just like I did with Gabriel Knight). They were my favorite "Trek-games", at least until the release of the TNG-title: "A Final Unity".
Still, I'm fairly sure I still have the orignal cd:s somewhere, so I don't think I'll buy this. Well, I might if they show up on "linux-steam", just to have them in the steam-library.
Still, I'm fairly sure I still have the orignal cd:s somewhere, so I don't think I'll buy this. Well, I might if they show up on "linux-steam", just to have them in the steam-library.
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DOSbox configuration is pretty trivial. So I usually prefer to use my system DOSbox with GOG games, instead of the bundled one.
Even though I do often use the convenience of the pre-bundled Dosbox wrappers, I would still prefer it if GOG would allow me to also download an unmodified version of the games for this exact reason. Some of us also still have old DOS machines lying around as well.
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Another thing to note: ScummVM could use help getting these games supported. There's a work in progress version of ScummVM with support on Github. More info at http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Startrek
Well, if you look at the actual code, you'll see that it's in a very early stage. It can display the game's graphics resources, and play sound and music, but that's about it. None of the game logic is handled. And as far as I'm aware, clone2727 didn't do any work on the engine since 2008.
We do, of course, welcome contribution to that engine. You should probably get in contact with clones (clone2727 or droid2727 in #scummvm on Freenode IRC) if you want to work on this. :)
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For Star Trek fans (needs sox to be installed, and if you use PulseAudio add libsox-fmt-pulse):
play -c2 -n synth whitenoise band -n 100 24 band -n 300 100 gain +20
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Liam, I never used a .deb based OS.
Under openSUSE /opt is a root partition which normaly is not that huge if you stick with the default install (2gb /swap, 20gb / and rest /home) so I would not want my games on that, is this different under ubuntu ?
Secondly installing an RPM requires su rights, maybe I am to untrustworthy but I avoid using that for anything that is not from the signed repositories ?
Under openSUSE /opt is a root partition which normaly is not that huge if you stick with the default install (2gb /swap, 20gb / and rest /home) so I would not want my games on that, is this different under ubuntu ?
Secondly installing an RPM requires su rights, maybe I am to untrustworthy but I avoid using that for anything that is not from the signed repositories ?
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I don't like installing packages for such things either so I just use tarballs and unpack them. Sometimes they only provide debs, but those are easily manually unpackable as well.
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Liam, I never used a .deb based OS.
Under openSUSE /opt is a root partition which normaly is not that huge if you stick with the default install (2gb /swap, 20gb / and rest /home) so I would not want my games on that, is this different under ubuntu ?
Secondly installing an RPM requires su rights, maybe I am to untrustworthy but I avoid using that for anything that is not from the signed repositories ?
I don't really know much about the filesystem stuff on Linux sorry. This quote comes to mind from Aliens "Don't ask me man I only work here".
Just download the .tar file.
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I'm not usually all that interested in point & clicks but the Star Trek fan in me says to get these.
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I took a chance and scooped up 25th Anniversary. I appreciate they provide a .deb for this, as I like it autopopulating my menu and such, rather than me having to manually edit my start menu. It would be nice if they also provided an .rpm for Red Hat-based distro users, but GOG only officially supports Ubuntu and Mint, so it's understandable. Anyway, works great for me out of the box. I only just started, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. The banter between Bones and Spock, as expected, is awesome.
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