The Frozen Bubble website can be found here:
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

An article on Frozen Bubble for NewsForge by Joe Barr is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031205103558/http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/02/1252249.shtml

An article on Linux puzzle games including Frozen Bubble by Tech Source can be read here:
https://www.junauza.com/2008/05/highly-addictive-puzzlearcade-games-for.html

And a teaser video for Frozen Bubble 2 can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxjsDG6NaOE

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Quoting: LightkeyI Because I had so little, I saved up for several years and then ordered them all at once to save on shipping costs instead of ordering them one by one

That is exactly what I am intending to do, actually. My point was if I do find things piecemeal on eBay with the shipping listed so I know the costs upfront I can take a smaller bite, but with ixsoft.de where it would make sense to bundle a huge order I would want to swallow the cost whole. So far most of the Linux games I have picked up were better done through eBay, but those discounted Loki prices sure are tempting, and LGP is pretty much nonexistent on the second hand market.

Of course the game I want the most for personal reasons is Shogo which Bernd Hentig does not have.

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Quoting: Lightkeyixsoft.de still has most of the games from that time in stock, it's like a museum ... including the original prices for the most part ... Now the shipping costs only mention Europe with other countries "at request" ... I know Bernd Hentig personally, we from Holarse went from our booth to his booth at the 2003 LinuxTag in Karlsruhe and bought a discounted batch of Quake III Arena tin boxes from him for everyone.

I was actually aware of ixsoft.de but was left unsure if they (or he it now seems) would be willing to ship internationally. So it is good to have some details clarified there, thanks. The main question is how much shipping to Canada would be as that is almost always the most expensive part of the process. With eBay at least such things are posted upfront.

Quoting: LightkeyAlso, don't forget to ask him about games on the German Index. I have personally notified him in the past of at least two titles (I think one was Rune(: Halls of Valhalla)), so he doesn't get in trouble advertising them. I don't know what he did with the copies he had but it would not surprise me if he still has them stored somewhere.

Rune I thankfully already do have. It just brings Dianoga to its knees, so I have shelved doing an article on that for the moment. For the moment.

Same with Descent3 where it is mostly a matter of my wanting to play through the original two games from Windows 98 first as I have not actually done more than dabble with any of them before.

Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerI'm trying to find my 2 copies of Civ:CTP. (and all my other linux games from way back) I won't sell them, but I might be able to let you borrow one copy. (yes, we be in the same province now)

I will keep that in mind for the future, thanks. As of right now I am still hunting for my own copy.

Just a reminder to everyone though that Liam has clarified he does not want buying and selling done through GamingOnLinux itself to avoid any potential liabilities!

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Just as a couple of additions, Odyssey By Car actually also runs alright on my modern Arch Linux computer. The sound effects do seem to have a slight delay, and the full screen mode does not work, but other than that it seems to be about the same as when running it on period hardware. It is kind of nice being able to crank all of the graphics settings to the max without the computer breaking a sweat.

And to just further taunt me, there are now two cheaply priced big boxes of the Loki Software release of Civilization: Call To Power listed on eBay. The only catch? Both of the boxes are for the German version of the game. I hope someone over in Deutschland gets to have a good time with them.

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Something to be aware of is that all transactions on the Zoom Platform are charged in US Dollars, and that you "will be charged for any conversion fees by the payment provider". So foreign buyers beware.



Anyway, I just tried their wrapper for the original Duke Nukem game, and the bundled DOSBox-X failed at first as it could not find libpcap.so.0.8 on my system. A quick symbolic link to libpcap.so.1.10.3 later and I was off to the races. Not going to hold that against them; Arch Linux users are supposed to take this kind of thing on the chin.

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If they can get the native Postal 2 updates sold outside of Steam that would be me saying hallelujah.

Quoting: NezchanThey can keep their collection of Duke Nukem variants.

You do realize how remarkable it is that they can even sell Duke Nukem given the legal situation with Gearbox right?

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Quoting: gbudnyIt's great that people remember Turbo Sliders. It was a popular game, and now it's a freeware

I went ahead and tried it on Dianoga but as expected it requires too new a glibc version. That said, it does seem to work just fine on my modern Arch Linux system once I removed the bundled "libz.so.1" library file. Considering the final copyright is from 2016 I really should not be too surprised though.

Quoting: gbudnyWe had two futuristic racing computer games for Linux: Ballistics and H-Craft Championship, which were cool games. I spent many hours playing them, but you don't drive race cars in them.

I remember playing the demo for H-Craft Championship back in the day. Since then the source code has been released too.

Quoting: gbudnyThere was a car simulation called Odyssey By Car ... When I ran it for the first time, I was surprised that my car could only moves backward. I don't have a driver's license, so I had to learn how to use the gear shift. It's the awesome game, and sometimes I still play it on Linux.

Another game I did not know about, so cheers for that. The demo for Odyssey By Car from the Internet Archive does work well on Dianoga; all I had to do was provide executable privileges to the "odysscar" and "res/uslproc" files. If I could ever get my hands on the full version CD-ROM I could see myself writing a full article on it, but it is still more of a driving simulation than a racing game.

Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerWell, the next one doesn't sound like Civ:CTP

Well, it certainly is not going to be SimCity 3000 Unlimited as of right now. Someone posted an eBay listing for the Loki jewel case for only $20 CAD just as I was finally falling asleep last night, and of course it was sold by the time I woke up the next morning. I am still kicking myself about that.

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Quoting: LightkeyWhat about Tux Racer?! Even developed in Canada! Just kidding.

Well yeah, that arguably became commercial, but it does not have you racing cars. Nor did Soul Ride from LGP. I would consider both to be more sports games personally.

Quoting: LightkeyThere was a similar commercial game released (only digitally) around the time called Turbo Sliders, I remember writing a news for it. Although now looking at the date, it was end of 2004, so a little later.

Ah never heard of this one. Good to know, even if it would be a little late for Dianoga.

Quoting: LightkeyFor the next article I'm guessing SuperTuxKart (which started as TuxKart in 2000 but the first playable version was apparently only released in 2007)? Or Widelands? It couldn't be a RPG with hexagons, could it?

Looks like you are going to have to keep guessing.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI don't know what happened to my copy of Devil's Whiskey... but I never could get it to work, it requires an old Python or something.

Well, that kind of is the whole point of this computer, so I should really at least try the demo at some point.

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The Trophy website on SourceForge can be found here:
https://trophy.sourceforge.io/

The ClanLib and Hermes RPM packages I used can be downloaded here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/clanlib-hermes-valhalla-rpm-packages.tar

And an article covering Trophy by J. Neil Doane for Linux Journal is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011030153203/https://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/0026.html

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