/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6234331
eat my shit

>>6234331
It's just Linux

Ultima 4 via xu4
Ultima 6 via nuvie

>>6234331
Steam and GoG (if you're an anti DRM purist) have massive selections of classic retrogames

Almost every CRPG runs native on Linux

>>6234412
gog is largely just the games bundled with DOSbox, hardly native or recommendable.
I can't think of any CRPG on Steam with native Linux/SteamOS binaries.

>>6234331
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>6234437
Sure, it's mostly compatability layers, I'm not really a purist though

>>6234331
>Good retro games that run natively on GNU/Linux?
Natively? I don't know. Maybe there are retro games with Linux versions which will still run on modern Linux distros, but I'm not sure. But as far as I know, a lot of the games which this board would consider to be "retro" don't run natively on any modern operating system. I'm referring mostly to DOS games, which stores like Steam and GOG will just package with DOSBox.

Steam for Linux will run a lot of Steam's DOSBox-powered games despite those games being packaged with the Windows version of DOSBox, because Proton will run Windows DOSBox fairly well. Some DOSBox-powered Steam games, like The Ultimate Doom, are even whitelisted for Proton.

But there is a Linux version of DOSBox, as well, so running the Windows version of DOSBox through Proton/Wine on Linux is a really convoluted way to get a DOS game working. Therefore, for many such games, I would recommend installing Boxtron, which basically adds native Linux DOSBox to Steam's list of Steam Play compatibility tools alongside Proton.

Of course, if you're trying to play The Ultimate Doom in particular, I would just recommend skipping DOSBox altogether and using a source port like GZDoom, which also has a Linux version. In short, playing a lot of retro games on Linux is pretty easy even if they're too old to run "natively". There are also Linux versions of ECWolf (a Wolfenstein 3D source port), Aleph One (a Marathon source port), and plenty of other source ports which I haven't used personally. So it's pretty easy to get a lot of retro games running on Linux, even if they're too old to run "natively".

>>6234331
>Good retro games that run natively on GNU/Linux?
Natively? I don't know. Maybe there are retro games with Linux versions which will still run on modern Linux distros, but I'm not sure. But as far as I know, a lot of the games which this board would consider to be "retro" don't run natively on any modern operating system. I'm referring mostly to DOS games, which stores like Steam and GOG will just package with DOSBox.

Steam for Linux will run a lot of Steam's DOSBox-powered games despite those games being packaged with the Windows version of DOSBox, because Proton will run Windows DOSBox fairly well. Some DOSBox-powered Steam games, like The Ultimate Doom, are even whitelisted for Proton.

But there is a Linux version of DOSBox, as well, so running the Windows version of DOSBox through Proton/Wine on Linux is a really convoluted way to get a DOS game working. Therefore, for many such games, I would recommend installing Boxtron, which basically adds native Linux DOSBox to Steam's list of Steam Play compatibility tools alongside Proton.

Of course, if you're trying to play The Ultimate Doom in particular, I would just recommend skipping DOSBox altogether and using a source port like GZDoom, which also has a Linux version. There are also Linux versions of ECWolf (a Wolfenstein 3D source port), Aleph One (a Marathon source port), and plenty of other source ports which I haven't used personally. So it's pretty easy to get a lot of retro games running on Linux, even if they're too old to run "natively".

>>6234331
OutRun has a source port called Cannonball with a ton of new features, check it out.

>>6234494
No.

>>6234443
>What you're referring to as Linux
Retard

>replying to pasta

>>6234546
He's not using the pasta correctly.

>>6234331
>retro games
>natively on GNU/Linux
????

>>6235015
what the fuck even is the point of your post? fuck off

>>6235025
I'm asking what the fuck you mean by retro games that run natively on Linux, since I don't think any actually exist that run "natively"

>>6235029
lol are you retarded or just baiting

>>6235042
????

Unless you are planning to run them on a kernel released on or before December 31, 1999, this thread is not retro and belongs on >>>/v/. If we start allowing threads about games on Linux systems using kernels more recent than 2.2.14, then what's to stop threads about Windows XP games?

>>6235059
nice try, but rules don't go by operating system year.

>>6235160

>>6235059
Day of the rope coming soon gatekeeper

>>6235059
Software is not a platform, the OS is irrelevant. You only have to worry about if the computer hardware was sold in stores in 1999 or sooner.

>>6235657
>>6235059
>>6235160
He's asking for retro games that got ported to Linux/GNU, not only games originally released on that platform.

>>6234331
Dink Smallwood is an interesting oddity. It's pretty shit but it still compelled me to finish it, like good kusoge.

>>6235661
>natively
Do you speak English?

>>6234331
Nearly anything emulated.
Retroarch/dosbox cores should work fine.
There's a java based X68000 emulator and a native PC-98/PC-88 emulator too.

>>6234331
for the other definition of native, not including emulators that run natively…
Quake, Doom, other old Id games.
Simnreal engine 1 stuff.

>>6235741
*Some Unreal engine 1 stuff.

Also who cares if it's native or not.

>>6235734
Yes. Natively means that it runs without emulation, virtualization or other compatibility layers.

>>6234331
>natively

Nothing, why would it, nobody gave a shit about Linux before 2000.

Most emulators are open source so run, it's only really non DOS PC games, some work in Wine - more will probably get added. Due to the autism of the community it'll probably overtake Windows for compatibility with old games. Although if you care that much you'll probably build an old hardware system anyway.

>>6235756
Quake 3 had a Linux port back in 99 and other games have had source ports since then.

>>6235761
really? damn, you learn some knew everyday, cheers

>>6234331
scorched3d

>>6234393
>I refer to my car as just the name of the engine.

>>6234331
Unreal 1 with 227 patch, UT'99 can run natively AFAIK

I installed UT 2004 straight from disk a few week ago. Abit of messing but worked no emulators.

>>6234331
Star Control 2
apt-get install uqm

>>6236345
Get a real job Richard, or would you like to be laughed at by monkeys again?

>>6236604
>apt-get
>not xbps-install
Lad...

>>6237074
I pkg_add actually but I welcome even normies to the fold

liquid war is the tits

>>6237506
OpenBSD? Nice

>>6237506
based openbsd user

>>6237937
Oh fuck, I loved this in high school. Played it constantly in 6-player mode with all my smelly nerd friends huddled around the two keyboards we had to use.
But let me say, all but one or two of the included default maps sucks from a gameplay perspective. All of our fun games were based on making our own maps. Actual geographical maps worked well, if you add lots of little connecting routes between separate landmasses. I can't think of what might have happened to those files, or else I would post one as an example.

Graphical games in the Debian repos:

openttd
beneath-a-steel-sky
freeciv
0ad
wesnoth
freeorion
hedgewars
uqm

If you are into roguelikes:

moria
nethack-console
crawl
bsdgames-nonfree (original rogue)

Other graphical games that are not in the repos, but run natively:

The Dark Mod (Thief)
OpenRA (Red Alert)
DCSS

heretic 2

>>6234331
I play tetris in the terminal, if that counts as retro.

>>6240550
>>6238832
tint is cli tetris in the debian repos

>>6234331
how retro?
linux game publishing
there is an archive of loki games installers
you gotta find the og isos though :/
adamhm has a wrapper on gog that helped me run deus ex and thief
good luck

>>6241070
vitetris (what I'm playing here >>6240550
) is superior to tint. It has 2-player, more options, and more satisfying visuals.

>>6234331
Inner Worlds, I think was the first commercial release for linux (1996). It's pretty good.

Good job jannies
next time they'll make a retro vegan thread.

>>6234393
Linux is a kernel.

>>6234443
Nobody fucking cares, Richard.

>>6234331
For me, it's OpenXcom.

>>6234437
Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 remastered is native. Since hex editors are included on the system its no problem to manually edit your save files if you know what youre doing

>>6235029
Doom quake etc. has all files in some distributions like Ubuntu except the wads etc.