The Marble Blast Gold demo can be downloaded here:
https://marbleblast.com/index.php/downloads/mbg/download/28-marble-blast-gold/13-marbleblastgolddemo-1-4-1-sh

Marble Blast Web can be played here:
https://marbleblast.vani.ga/

The Marble Blast Haxe Port can be found here:
https://github.com/RandomityGuy/MBHaxe

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Quoting: Lightkey..and then they just point to Holarse for the Linux version instead of hosting it themselves, those freeloaders!

Looking back with the Internet Archive they used to use Tucows to offload the Linux hosting too:
https://archive.org/details/tucows_327831_MOBILITY

Both uploads of the demo are setup to launch at 1024x768 which is blocked in the shareware, meaning you have to edit the MOBILITY.INI file to even get the thing to launch...

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Quoting: gbudnyI waited for it, and I think it's my favorite article from your retro series. I like to read when users publish how to solve different issues with games for Linux.

I will admit, being able to say that I have played the original Linux Doom port with a serial mouse in 2023 is a proper nerd flex.

Quoting: gbudnyDave Taylor probably didn't spend too much time working on this version of Doom. I suspect that Doom for NeXTStep is similar to this one.

"I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue. Please don't call or write us with bug reports. They cost us money, and I get sorta ragged on for wasting my time on UNIX ports anyway." - Dave D. Taylor, README.linuxx

Quoting: gbudnyI don't know if you have plans to write the article about Mobility for Linux.

That's the second old German shareware game with Linux binaries you pointed me to. I appreciate it.

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Quoting: CybolicI think you got this link wrong though:

Quoting: HamishA detailed overview of Abuse versions can be seen in this VOGONS thread:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=6363

Maybe you meant to link to this one? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44100

Yep, that would be correct. This is probably one of the articles that I spent the most time doing research on, and I ended up having a massive text file full of links. I guess I must have copied the wrong VOGONS thread over. I never did get XFree86 to launch at 320x200 by the way, but I was able to expand the Abuse window in the end.

Quoting: CalinouI gave Abuse a try recently, but I couldn't stand the low framerate.

I definitely intend to come back to Abuse in a later article, once I can get my hands on a CD-ROM. The original registered version direct from Crack dot Com would be best, but I could make do with the later Electronic Arts or Origin version as well thanks to the source code release.

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Quoting: LightkeyBernd Kreimeier! Squee~ *girlynoises*
A name I haven't heard in a long time. Sorry, I know this is getting off-topic, I only know him from his Loki Software days, where he was responsible for OpenAL and as a German myself, from his science-fiction short stories in the c’t magazine I was reading at the time I thought he wrote those just as a hobby but looking at Wikipedia, it seems it was his job early on, where he even wrote some novels that I should check out some time.

Yeah, that scans, since his initial interest in the Doom source code was for a book deal that fell through:
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Bernd_Kreimeier

These articles are kind of just old Linux storytime at heart, so no worries about getting off topic.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThey are rage....... Brutal....... DOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

Nothing Brutal about Linux Doom, I can tell you that much. It can not even run SIGIL without a visplane overflow:
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Visplane_overflow

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The article on a.out support by Jason Heiss can be read here:
https://aput.net/~jheiss/aout_redhat.shtml

The Linux Doom FAQ by Steve VanDevender is archived here:
https://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/~stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html

A review of Doom by Michael K. Johnson for Linux Journal can be found here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1

The files for the original Linux Doom port are mirrored here:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/doom/!INDEX.html

My fake /dev/sndstat device can be seen here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/sndstat

The RPM package for Abuse can be downloaded from here:
https://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/abuse-1.10-5.i386.rpm

An RPM package for the patched Linux Doom binaries can be downloaded here:
https://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/doom-1.10-7.i386.rpm

A press release on Red Hat partnering with Crack dot Com be be read here:
https://www.redhat.com/ja/about/press-releases/press-crackdotcom

A detailed overview of Abuse versions can be seen in this VOGONS thread:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44100

The Linux Game Tome page for Abuse is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070227220513/http://happypenguin.org/show?Abuse

Security reports on the exploits found with the SVGALib version of Abuse can be read here:
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19279
https://vulners.com/packetstorm/PACKETSTORM:15084

An article on the Quake source code leak from Wired can be read here:
https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake/

An interview with Dave Taylor on Linux gaming by Harley Jebens for Gamespot can be read here:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/okay-dave-taylor-why-linux/1100-2467851/

An interview with Dave Taylor on Linux gaming by James Hills for GA-Source is mirrored here:
https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/ddt.shtml

And my launch command for Abuse is as follows:
sudo /usr/games/abuse.x11 -2 -size 640 480 -grab_pointer

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: HamishNope, for the same reason most older web browsers no longer work with modern websites

Welp, I could browse just fine from an iPad 2 running iOS 9 so I thought maybe there could be a chance.

Well, there is always The Old Net:
http://theoldnet.com

Which GOL is just old enough for:
https://theoldnet.com/get?url=gamingonlinux.info&year=2010&scripts=false&decode=false

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Quoting: mr-victoryCan you browse GamingOnLinux from that CD?

Nope, for the same reason most older web browsers no longer work with modern websites, which is the mass adoption of HTTPS starting around 2016 or so.

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Quoting: GuestPersonally I don't mind using slowly rolling distros

Until one day you realize you are in fact using Fedora.

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Quoting: systmrrrIs it possible to share an image of your retro gaming pc?

You can see some pictures of the computer in the first few articles I posted. I honestly do not have the best setup for it all, with the computer crammed into a corner on a filing cabinet up against my desk with my main Arch Linux computer.

I settle for an LCD monitor and an optical mouse despite them not being the most period accurate simply for the space convenience they offer.

Quoting: LightkeyI still play The Ace of Penguins Solitaire by DJ Delorie when I'm not in the mood for Mines.

There is an AUR package for them and I still play them quite regularly too, although the help screens no longer seem to work for me.

Quoting: GroganKnoppix was amazing back in the day. I think other distros learned a lot about hardware detection and automatic configuration from Knoppix.

Yep, I eventually just switched to using Fedora live media back when I still used it as my main distro, but it is clear how much all modern live Linux distros are indebted to Knoppix.

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