Septerra Core [Steam] is another on the classic games list from Topware Interactive to gain an official Linux version using Wine.
It's currently in Beta, so you need to opt-in to gain access to it. The password for the beta branch is "sclinuxtestbeta", once entered you gain access to the "Linux Beta Test" branch on Steam. Find the announcement here.
I'm fine with old games coming to Linux using Wine, I think that's making good use of the tools we have available to us. It likely wouldn't make enough money to justify going back to years-old source code to port it fully native, source code can easily get lost with time too. As long as it works, works well, and is supported, it's all good. You go onto Steam, click Play and you're ready to get going, that really should be all that matters.
Features
- A fantasy role playing game with over 140 characters and a complex, multi-level world
- Intriguingly varied story-line
- Choose up to nine party members, each with a unique motivation, skills and background
- The strategic combat system combines the best of turn-based and real-time elements
- Explore over 200 locations with mysterious buildings, landscapes, danger and surprise at every -turn
- The Adventure-style user interface gives you maximum interaction
- Hundreds of entertaining voices spoken by professional actors
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I really like to see such an old games coming to Linux with Wine versions... For example if we had all titles like that to be plug and play and running through a controller it wouldn't really matter whether it is fully native or a Wine wrapper... In fact I think that these practices are great ideas for old games that we would not get otherwise. I'd actually like to see more of that from multiple companies :) to "port" all the games with dx9 and bellow like that, that would expand library a bunch
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Loved it back in the day, didn't know it was a Topware title. I already have it on GOG and Steam, will definitely look into it when it gets released!
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GustyGhost Oct 31, 2016
I guess we can say WINE is spiritually the new DOSbox. There is an entire horde of games from between ~1999 to ~2007 that could use these faux-ports. Like you say, I don't really care how they get to my display so long as the installation and runtime is seamless.
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I guess we can say WINE is spiritually the new DOSbox. There is an entire horde of games from between ~1999 to ~2007 that could use these faux-ports. Like you say, I don't really care how they get to my display so long as the installation and runtime is seamless.
To be fair: Wine has been around a LOT longer than DOSBox. It's also still being updated. I've not seen a new release of DOSbox in.... over 4 years now.
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I guess we can say WINE is spiritually the new DOSbox. There is an entire horde of games from between ~1999 to ~2007 that could use these faux-ports. Like you say, I don't really care how they get to my display so long as the installation and runtime is seamless.
Performance is also not an issue because most of us already have graphics cards and hardware that runs DX9 and bellow games with ease eventhough it's not completely native. And for people who buy steam machines they would never know what and how the game runs anyway... So actually wrapping all of the old cool titles with Wine and connecting it with Steam would be one of the huge steps towards making SteamOS really Viable platform for the future.
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I guess we can say WINE is spiritually the new DOSbox. There is an entire horde of games from between ~1999 to ~2007 that could use these faux-ports. Like you say, I don't really care how they get to my display so long as the installation and runtime is seamless.
To be fair: Wine has been around a LOT longer than DOSBox. It's also still being updated. I've not seen a new release of DOSbox in.... over 4 years now.
There are some forks of DOSBox out there, but I think the important thing is that DOSBox works Well Enough (TM).
I'm sure it could be better, though.
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To be fair: Wine has been around a LOT longer than DOSBox.
True, but the ability to play DOS games on Linux is older than Wine. Before DOSBox there was DOSEMU, which worked well with a lot of DOS games and other software.
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I don't care what it is as long as it works. I wish for more WINE ports of the older games.
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Mountain Man Oct 31, 2016
I agree, nothing wrong with Wine ports for older games, or even newer games if the performance is good.
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ElectricPrism Oct 31, 2016
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It's a pretty decent jRPG style game. Back in the day it was one of the very very very few jRPG style games on PC. Like so many jRPGs, it gets extremely grindy, which is why I never managed to finish it.
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PublicNuisance Nov 1, 2016
If it makes it's way to a DRM free version i'll pick it up. GOG has Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator but I'm not sure if that's the same game.
Last edited by PublicNuisance on 1 November 2016 at 2:29 am UTC
Last edited by PublicNuisance on 1 November 2016 at 2:29 am UTC
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There is nothing wrong with these old games comes to Linux with Wine porting.Because,demanding from them a native port will be pointless.I've tried Enclaeve yesterday and it ran nicely.
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Another Linux beta I'm hesitant to buy because I don't know how Steam is going to count the sale. It used to be it would count as a Windows sale, but I've run across conversations indicating that's no longer how it works. What's the sale status of these Linux betas, does anybody know?
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