Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

While the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection does exist, this project works with the originals and enhances them. You do need to own the games to run through TRX. You can grab them from GOG or Steam.

The latest release of TR2X 0.9 is out now, which amongst other things includes "Linux builds and toolchain" support, so you can run it natively on Linux and benefit from all the improvements. Going by the status page they say "TR2X is finished with the decompilation and is now able to run without the original game .exe. The focus is now to clean up the code base and enrich the game with new enhancements and features". The update also includes a pause dialog, a photo mode feature, support for animated sprites and more.

Pictured - Tomb Raider II

TR1X 4.8 for Tomb Raider I was also release adding a few new features and lots of fixes. This already had Linux support.

Source: GitHub