Are there actually any good Unix/Linux native retro games?
What did people even play on those systems back in the day?
Are there actually any good Unix/Linux native retro games? What did people even play on those systems back in the day?
Are there actually any good Unix/Linux native retro games?
What did people even play on those systems back in the day?
>What did people even play on those systems back in the day?
At the university OIT I was employed at in those days, we did a lot of xtank. Netrek was the real late night time waster, though you really needed to have at least one other person working with you. If you were working alone, a few games of Rogue kept your sanity in between swapping and hanging tapes for month end accounting or weekly backups.
robots.
Rogue
linuxgays don't play games, they just frick around in the terminal and call it fun.
I started using Linux back in 2012 when Wine wasn't so good.
I remember playing
- Neverball, a FOSS super monkey ball clone
- Xonotic
- Super Tux Kart
- Super Tux
- Unvanquished
- Doom 3
- Fallout 3 through Wine
- Yume Nikki through Wine
- Emulators
- Some FOSS counter strike clone I can't remember the name of
- Team Fortress 2 (Valve ported Steam and some games to Linux in 2012)
- Left 4 Dead
- Doom and Doom wads
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_games
This is a good resource even if you're not on Arch.
I hear people still play Xonotic online
You can play yumme nikki natively using easy rpg nowadays
>Some FOSS counter strike clone I can't remember the name of
Assault Cube?
Also Sauerbraten and OpenArena
Wine has been fine enough to play Diablo II with since at least 2006
Nethack
And I guess Battle for Wesnoth is retro now
>Battle for Wesnoth
I used to play this in high school when I first started out with linux
DikuMUD
Back in the day, we played
>Doom
>Quake
>Abuse
>Nethack
>Angband
>BZFlag
>Neverputt
But to be honest I spent a lot more time playing DOS games (using DOSEMU) than anything native
Super Tux Racer is tight. Mostly I was playing stuff through WINE, though. It was a nice surprise when Valve ported TF2 over there, too; I think back when I was using Linux TF2 was genuinely what I used Windows the most for.
DOOM wads, DOSbox, Mednafen and Retroarch
There are exactly five open source games worth playing today, three of which are clones
>Battle For Wesnoth
>Neverball
>rRootage
>Oolite
>Nethack
It's not Linux's fault, free Windows games in the 2000s weren't all that great either. But when game engines took off they basically killed open source vidya.
>worth playing today
>Nethack
No
>performant
You know this "word" was made up by a random guy who couldn't into English vocabulary and it makes oldgays cringe when you say it, right?
calm down, little fella
> who couldn't into
If you're going to criticize someone's diction, don't use memespeak like a brain-damaged Black person.
>native retro games
You mean like Custer's Revenge?
There were a frickton. They were literally some of the first games. And in your parents lifetime there was kiddo friendly shit like tux racer, the list goes on.
>You mean like Custer's Revenge?
No, not at all like Custer's Revenge. The OP specifically states games native to *nix operating systems. Are you okay?
he was trying to make a lame joke about "native" americans and it just wasnt funny. zoomers tend to fail like that.
>ackshually
>he was zoomer i am totally not zoomer look over there zooomers everywhere but not here i'm not the zoomers you're looking for did i mention i'm totally not a zoomer
calm down, little fella
>he nailed it
>maybe if i double down
Maybe
Imagine being a brain-damaged Black person and a projecting pseud
calm down, little fella
>Are there actually any good Unix/Linux native retro games?
Unreal Tournament '99. Seriously.
MUDs
The entire reason Unix exists was to port a game to a less performant architecture because Bell Labs told Richie to stop using their expensive mainframes for some space explorer game.
It was Ken Thompson. IIRC there is a binary floating around for the game in question but no source, and last I heard they're not able to emulate the machine it ran on yet due to not knowing what a small handful of instructions are supposed to do.
Armagetron
Around 2000 I had native Linux ports of:
>quake 1/2/3
>UT
>Soldier of fortune
>Jagged alliance 2
>Railroad tycoon 2
Good Vidya times. Linux with wine is better for playing old windows games than windows is now.
>Linux with wine is better for playing old windows games than windows is now.
How old is old in this sense? Wine sucked when I last tried it in like 2012.
xp
anno1602 runs out of the box
Fallout 3 era works better on Linux than in windows, especially if you use steam. Most modern games work perfectly too now.
I bought a Steam Deck expecting to use it for emulation only because I'm really not used to games just working on linux but I'm honestly kinda amazed how well proton (and the deck) seems to handle both retro and non-retro games. I haven't really run into any major issues or glitches so far.
Emulators maybe? I use Linux as my main OS, but I don’t install games on it.
0ad
Wesnoth
FreeCiv
Doom
Morrowind (wine)
Oblivion (wine)
Shitbillion others (DOSBox, wine)
Tux racer! Tuuuuuux racer!