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Quoting: HamishYeah, sadly the Hyperion Entertainment ports are next to impossible to find on disc these days

There was a physical release by a porting company?

Indeed... I think I got mine through Linux Game Publishing, before they folded.

Tux Games is probably what you are thinking of, although it was run by the same people as Linux Game Publishing.

I really regret not being able to buy a few boxes from them before they closed shop.

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Quoting: CalinouJudging by the article name, I thought it was going to be about the first-person shooter SiN. :P

Yeah, sadly the Hyperion Entertainment ports are next to impossible to find on disc these days. I did mention that I played the SiN demo on Red Hat Linux 9 earlier if you would recall.

Quoting: IvancilloOne of the first Linux games I played (on Slackware 3.0) circa 1997. My favorite version was 1.4. I didn't like too much the 2.X (nor the sound).

Ha! The tradition lives on.

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The original XEvil website has been archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160601125044/http://www.xevil.com/

The Linux Game Tome entry for XEvil has been archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071010005312/http://www.happypenguin.org/show?XEvil

The GitHub repository can be found here:
https://github.com/lvella/xevil

An article on XEvil by Ryan Armstrong can be read here:
https://zerker.ca/home/xevil.html

And the final XEvil 2.02 release can be downloaded from here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/xevil-2.02.tar

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To download the beta1a installer click here:
http://icculus.org/betas/ssam/ssam-tfe-lnx-beta1a.run

Then to download the subsequent beta installers click here:
https://icculus.org/updates/ssam/

And, since I struggled for years trying to get this to work, here is how I built the Serious Sam source port:

Spoiler, click me

For The First Encounter:
# git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/Serious-Engine.git
# cd Serious-Engine/Sources
# ./build-linux64.sh -DTFE=TRUE
# cd ../Bin/
# cp ../Sources/cmake-build/ssam-tfe ./
# cp ../Sources/cmake-build/Debug/* ./
# ln -s libGame.so libGameMP.so
# ln -s libEntities.so libEntitiesMP.so

For The Second Encounter:
# git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/Serious-Engine.git
# cd Serious-Engine/Sources
# ./build-linux64.sh
# cd ../Bin/
# cp ../Sources/cmake-build/ssam ./
# cp ../Sources/cmake-build/Debug/* ./

Then copy SE1_10.gro and the relevant Bin directory to your Serious Sam installs. Launch ssam-tfe or ssam from the Bin directory in order to play.

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I was tempted to highlight Maelstrom from this set since it also has higher production values than most and was actually ported over to Linux by Sam Latinga, the father of SDL, but sadly it would not load due to a glibc conflict. That said, it was packaged on the Valhalla install discs by Red Hat and that version does work on Dianoga.

I also found an AUR package for The Ace of Penguins which still works on my more modern Arch Linux computer. The graphics do not scale for larger displays of course, and the help screens do not work, but other than that it is fully playable, and I actually prefer it somewhat to AisleRiot.

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Quoting: sgtnasty369Why can't I get a pure AMD Ryzen/Radeon Linux laptop? They always have to throw in NVIDIA.
I'm so bummed.

System76 already sells this as the Pangolin:
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

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Quoting: AnzaIratus is good fun. Voice acting by Stephan Weyte makes it even more fun.

Okay, you have my attention now.

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Meanwile here I am using a fourteen year old 60 Hz LCD panel and a CRT monitor...

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Quoting: GuestTrying to remember whether the free games had always been tied to 'accepting to receive marketing spam'... I think it wasn't.

Yeah, a little annoying, but nothing stopping you from unsubscribing afterwards either.

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I don't think I played any games first released in the last ten years, let alone this year...

For anyone who is interested though I keep a list on my icculus.org account of every game I have played since I graduated High School:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/gameslist.txt

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