Quoting: Purple Library GuySays it also supports doing various old Linux distributions. Maybe I could use it to play my old Loki games.

What is the support for GPU pasthrough like with this I wonder?

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Quoting: holisticboyDon't get me wrong, I prefer Goldeneye any day, but merit where merit is due in terms of the technology in SoF!

There was a mod for Blood II: The Chosen called "Limbloss" that functioned in much the same way but was a lot less elaborate. As for location based damage, SiN had that using the same engine years earlier. But neither of those games had the full power of the GHOUL system.

Quoting: rcritDon't want to be a downer, I've generally enjoyed this series, but this article seems more like a review of SoF than "getting old games to run".

Not sure what your point is here? If the article was just on what I needed to do to get the game running then it would be five paragraphs long and dry as birch bark. Loki did a good job on this, not much to talk about. I started this project by saying it was just a bit of fun, and it will remain so.

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The Soldier of Fortune song can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpRgTDPjMTY

A review of the game by J. Neil Doane for Linux Journal can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4381

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223131525/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/sof/

And my launch command for Soldier of Fortune is as follows:
sof +set gl_dynamic 0 +set cl_lights 0 +set gl_gentextures_broken 0 +set gl_detailtexturing 0

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOoh, I have most of the Loki ports, but did not know they did some PPC ones.

You can download the PPC installers for them here:
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.lokigames.com/installers/ppc/

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, for me the topic of building a Retro Linux computer would be to put together an old PPC mac and install Debian :P

Well, my graphics card at least is about right for an old Mac.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeFun fact, Heretic II also got a commercial port on the Amiga.

Yep, for Hyperion Entertainment making Linux and Mac ports was always a side hustle, with the Amiga being their one true love.

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Last time I tried to install Heretic II on my modern Arch Linux system it worked fine in Software but would crash with OpenGL enabled. Not sure if Lutris includes a fix for that or not.

For these articles though I am always going to try to use the original installers first to be as period accurate as possible. Hence why I tracked down all the Serious Sam betas off icculus.org rather than using the LIFLG installer.

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You can download the working Heretic II installer from here:
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.lokigames.com/installers/heretic2/

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020227231244/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/heretic2/

And my launch command for Heretic II is as follows:
heretic2 +set gl_dynamic 0 +set cl_lights 0

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At present I am going to be sticking to games that I have on disc rather than abandonware. Partly because I can show them off better and partly to stay clear of any legal questions.

The Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns demo was playable but felt a bit heavy when I tried it, but I will definitely give it another look if I can get hold of the disc.

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Just discovered that the MobyGames page for XEvil has a lot of nice Linux screenshots:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/xevil

As does The Ace of Penguins thanks to the same contributor:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ace-of-penguins

Nice to know that I am not alone in doing all this.

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