Westwood Studios made quite a lot of games like Dune II and the Command & Conquer series but they also made an RPG called Nox, that now lives on with the OpenNox game engine. OpenNox just recently had a new release, and the project is now open source too under the GPL!
Released originally in the year 2000, Nox was received very well by the gaming press at the time and lives on in the hearts of many gamers. Thankfully now though, OpenNox gives you a fresh way to play it on modern platforms like Linux and Windows. OpenNox is a fully-featured game engine reimplementation too supporting the original features plus plenty of enhancements including: improving modding support, higher resolutions, much better online play and more.
Like other open source reimplementations, it does not include copyrighted assets and so you do need to own a copy of the game to play it which you can buy on GOG.com.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Cloversheen Jun 20, 2022
I take it at as a sign by the gods that I should indeed play the game again!
To the downloads, and beyond!
EDIT: missing words.
Last edited by robvv on 20 June 2022 at 6:47 pm UTC
slaapliedje Jun 20, 2022
And now of course I also confuse it with Nox Archaist...
Amusingly of course I check if OpenNox is in the AUR yet, and looked only for 'nox' and get the packages for NoX (As in No X11). They should have called Wayland that...
Schattenspiegel Jun 20, 2022
Quoting: slaapliedjeAmusingly of course I check if OpenNox is in the AUR yet
$ sudo dnf info nox
Available Packages
Name : nox
Version : 2022.1.7
Release : 1.fc36
Architecture : noarch
Size : 79 k
Source : nox-2022.1.7-1.fc36.src.rpm
Repository : updates
Summary : Flexible test automation
URL : https://nox.thea.codes
License : ASL 2.0
Description : Nox is a command-line tool that automates testing in multiple
: Python environments, similar to tox. Unlike tox, Nox uses a
: standard Python file for configuration.
Will this work with the original media, and if so how do I get the files installed on linux?
Cloversheen Jun 21, 2022
Quoting: Guppy"lousy secondrate candle makers - kill them all when I rule the world"
Will this work with the original media, and if so how do I get the files installed on linux?
Should work, you can install it using regular wine and then unzip the OpenNox files into the installation directory. (i.e. next to Nox.exe)
hardpenguin Jun 29, 2022
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