Video games and Linux
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History
Linux gaming started largely as an extension of the already present
Popular early titles included
1994–1997
The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when
In 1991 DUX Software contracted Don Hopkins to port
A website called The Linux Game Tome, also known as HappyPenguin after its URL, was begun by Tessa Lau in 1995 to catalogue games created for or ported to Linux from the SunSITE game directories as well as other classic X11 games for a collection of just over 100 titles.[47] It was taken over by Bob Zimbinski in 1998 eventually growing to over 2000 entries, sponsored by retailer Penguin Computing and later LGP until it went down in 2013, although mirrors still exist.[48][49]
1998–2002
The site LinuxGames covered news and commentary from November 1998 until its host Atomicgamer went down in 2015.[50][51] It was established by Marvin Malkowski, head of the Telefragged gaming network, alongside Al Koskelin and Dustin Reyes;[52] Reyes passed away August 8, 2023.[53]
On November 9, 1998, a new software firm called
Loki's initial success also attracted other firms to invest in the Linux gaming market, such as
The period also saw a number of commercial compilations released,
The release of
2003–2007
After Loki's closure, the Linux game market experienced some changes.[104] Although some new firms, such as Linux Game Publishing and RuneSoft, would largely continue the role of a standard porting house,[105] the focus began to change with Linux game proponents encouraging game developers to port their game products themselves or through individual contractors.[106] Influential to this was Ryan C. Gordon, a former Loki employee who would over the next decade port several game titles to multiple platforms, including Linux.[107]
Around this time many companies,
The company
2008–2011
The Linux gaming market also started to experience some growth towards the end of the decade with the rise of
In 2009, the small indie game company Entourev LLC published Voltley to Linux which is the first commercial exclusive game for this operating system.[132][133] In the same year, LGP released Shadowgrounds which was the first commercial game for Linux using the Nvidia PhysX middleware.[134] The GamingOnLinux website was launched on July 4, 2009, and eventually succeeded LinuxGames as the main source of news and commentary.[135]
The release of a Linux version of
2012–2016
In July 2012, game developer and content distributor
In November 2012, Unity Technologies ported their Unity engine and game creation system to Linux starting with version 4. All of the games created with the Unity engine can now be ported to Linux easily.[148]
In September 2013 Valve announced that they were releasing a gaming oriented Linux based operating system called SteamOS with Valve saying they had "come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself."[137][149] This was used for their Steam Machine platform released on November 10, 2015, and discontinued in 2018.[150]
In March 2014 GOG.com announced they would begin to support Linux titles on their DRM free store starting the same year, after previously stating they would not be able due to too many distributions.[151] GOG.com began their initial roll out on July 24, 2014, by offering 50 Linux supporting titles, including several new to the platform.[152]
Despite previous statements, GOG have confirmed they have no plans to port their Galaxy client to Linux.
In March and April 2014 two major developers
Towards the end of 2014 the game host
2017-present
On August 22, 2018, Valve released their fork of
As with Wine and Cedega in the past, concerns have been raised over whether Proton hinders native development more than it encourages use of the platform.[174][175] Prodeus dropped native support in favour of Proton shortly before final release[176] and Arcen Games cancelled planned native support for Heart of the Machine.[177] Valve has expressed no preference over Proton or native ports among developers.[178]
On February 25, 2022, Valve released
As of early 2023, the retro game store Zoom Platform was enhancing Linux support on their available titles.[193]
The Steam Hardware Survey reports that as of January 2024, 2% of users are using some form of Linux as their platform's primary operating system.[194] The Unity game engine used to[195] make their statistics available and in March 2016 reported that Linux users accounted for 0.4% of players.[196] In 2010, in the first Humble Bundle sales, Linux accounted for 18% of purchases.[197]
Supported hardware
Linux as a gaming platform can also refer to operating systems based on the Linux kernel and specifically designed for the sole purpose of gaming. Examples are
The
Performance
In 2013, tests by
Software architecture
An operating system based on the Linux kernel and customized specifically for gaming, could adopt the
Linux kernel
The subsystems already mainlined and available in the Linux kernel are most probably performant enough so to not impede the gaming experience in any way,[citation needed] however additional software is available, such as e.g. the Brain Fuck Scheduler (a process scheduler) or the Budget Fair Queueing (BFQ) scheduler (an I/O scheduler).[201]
Similar to the way the Linux kernel can be, for example, adapted to run better on supercomputers, there are adaptations targeted at improving the performance of games. A project concerning itself with this issue is called Liquorix.[202][203]
Available software for video game designers
Game creation systems
Several
Level editors
Various
Debuggers
Several game development tools have been available for Linux, including GNU Debugger, LLDB, Valgrind, glslang and others. VOGL, a debugger for OpenGL was released on 12 March 2014.
Available interfaces and SDKs
There are multiple
The book
Library | License | in | Language bindings | Back-ends | Description | |||||
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Icon | Name | Official | 3rd-party | Linux |
Windows | OS X |
Other | |||
Allegro |
zlib License | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Android, iOS | ||||
ClanLib | zlib License | C++ | Python, Lua, Ruby | Yes | Yes | — | — | |||
GLFW | zlib License | C | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | a small C library to create and manage windows with OpenGL contexts, enumerate monitors and video modes, and handle input | |||
Grapple |
LGPL-2.1+ | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | free software package for adding multiplayer support | ||||
Nvidia GameWorks | Proprietary | Unknown | WIP | Yes | — | — | As the result of their cooperation with Valve, Nvidia announced a Linux port of GameWorks.[233] As of June 2014, PhysX, and OptiX have been available for Linux for some time. | |||
OpenPlay | APSL | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | networking library authored by Apple Inc. | |||
Pygame | LGPL-2.1 | Python | Yes | Yes | Yes | build over SDL | ||||
RakNet | 3-clause BSD
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C++ | C++, C# | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | PlayStation 3, iOS, ... | game network engine for multi-player | |
SDL | zlib License | C | C | C#, Pascal, Python, Gambas | EGL, Xlib, GLX? | GDI, Direct3D | Quartz, Core OpenGL? | PSP-stuff | a low-level cross-platform abstraction layer | |
SFML | zlib License | C++ | C, D, Python, Ruby, OCaml, .Net, Go | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
wxWidgets | LGPL-like | C++ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Available middleware
Beside majority of the software which acts as an interface to various subsystems of the operating system, there is also software which can be simply described as middleware. A multitude of companies exist worldwide, whose main or only product is software that is meant to be licensed and integrated into a game engine. Their primary target is the video game industry, but the film industry also utilizes such software for special effects. Some very few well known examples are
- classical physics: Havok, Newton Game Dynamics and PhysX
- audio: Audiokinetic Wwise, FMOD
- other: SpeedTree
A significant share of the available middleware already runs natively on Linux, only a very few run exclusively on Linux.
Available IDEs and source code editors
Numerous
Multi-monitor
A
Voice over IP
The specifications of the Mumble protocol are freely available and there are BSD-licensed implementations for both servers and clients. The positional audio API of Mumble is supported by e.g. Cube 2: Sauerbraten.
Wine
Wine is a compatibility layer that provides binary compatibility and makes it possible to run software, that was written and compiled for Microsoft Windows, on Linux. The Wine project hosts a user-submitted application database (known as Wine AppDB) that lists programs and games along with ratings and reviews which detail how well they run with Wine. Wine AppDB also has a commenting system, which often includes instructions on how to modify a system to run a certain game which cannot run on a normal or default configuration. Many games are rated as running flawlessly, and there are also many other games that can be run with varying degrees of success. The use of Wine for gaming has proved controversial in the Linux community as some feel it is preventing, or at least hindering, the further growth of native gaming on the platform.[236][237]
Emulators
There are numerous emulators for Linux. There are also APIs, virtual machines, and machine emulators that provide binary compatibility:
- Anbox and Waydroid for the Android operating system;
- Basilisk II for the 68040 Mac;
- DOSBox and DOSEMU for MS-DOS and compatibles;
- DeSmuME and melonDS for the Nintendo DS;
- Triforce;
- FCEUX, Nestopia and TuxNES for the Nintendo Entertainment System;
- Flashpoint for Adobe Flash;
- Frotzfor Z-Machine text adventures;
- Fuse for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum;
- TT and Falcon;
- gnuboy for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color;
- MAME for arcade games (and previously MESS for multiple hardware platforms);
- Mednafen and Xe emulating multiple hardware platforms including some of the above;
- Mupen64for the Nintendo 64;
- PCSX-Reloaded, pSX and the Linux port of ePSXe for the PlayStation;
- Neko Project for the NEC PC-9801;
- PCSX2 for the PlayStation 2;
- PPSSPP for the PlayStation Portable;
- ScummVM for LucasArts and various other adventure games;
- Macintosh;
- Snes9x, higan and ZSNES for the Super NES;
- Stella for the Atari 2600;
- UAE for the Amiga;
- VICE for the Commodore 64, 128, VIC-20, Plus/4 and PET;
- VisualBoyAdvance, mGBA and Boycott Advance for the Game Boy Advance;
- Macintosh;
Linux homebrew on consoles
Linux has been ported to several game consoles, including the Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4,[238] GameCube,[239] and Wii which allows game developers without an expensive game development kit to access console hardware. Several gaming peripherals also work with Linux.[240][241]
Linux adoption
Adoption by game engines
The game engine is the software solely responsible for the game mechanics, or rules defining game play. There are different game engines for first-person shooters, strategy video games, etc. Besides the game mechanics, software is also needed to handle graphics, audio, physics, input handling, and networking.
Game engines that have been used by a number of video games and run on top of Linux include:
- C4 Engine (Terathon Software)
- CryEngine (Crytek)
- Diesel 2.0 (Grin)
- Godot engine(Godot Foundation)
- HPL Engine 1–3 (Frictional Games)
- id Tech (id Software)
- Leadwerks (Leadwerks Software)
- LithTech (Monolith Productions)
- Open 3D Engine (Open 3D Foundation)
- Road Hog Engine (Flying Wild Hog)
- Serious Engine (Croteam)
- Source (Valve)
- Storm3D (Frozenbyte)
- Torque engine (GarageGames)
- Unigine Corp)
- Unity 5 (Unity Technologies)
- Unreal Engine (Epic Games)
Adoption by video games
There are many free and open-source video games as well as commercially distributed proprietary video games that run natively on Linux. Some independent companies have also begun porting prominent video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
Free and open-source games
Original games
A few original
- 0 A.D. is a real-time strategy game of ancient warfare, similar to Age of Empires.
- AssaultCube is a first-person shooter.
- AstroMenace is a 3D scroll-shooter.
- BZFlag is a 3D First person tank shooter (With jumping).
- Battle for Wesnothis a turn-based strategy game.
- Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid is a 2D platform game.
- Chromium B.S.U. is a fast-paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
- CodeRED: Alien Arena is a sci-fi first-person shooter derived from the Quake IIengine.
- Crimson Fields is a turn-based tactical wargame.[242]
- Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a 3D first-person shooter with an integrated map editing mode.
- Danger from the Deep is a submarine simulator set in World War II.
- Glest is a real-time strategy game, with optional multiplayer.
- NetHack and Angband are text-based computer role-playing games.
- Netrek is a Star Trek themed multiplayer 2D space battle game.
- Nexuiz is a first-person shooter. Although, this has been replaced by Xonotic.
- TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) – considered one of the best open-source racing simulators, with realistic graphics and vehicle handling.[243]
- Tremulous is a 3D first-person shooter/real-time strategy game.
- Tux Racer is a 3D racing game featuring Tux.
- Urban Terror is a standalone Quake III Arena first-person shooter. (Proprietary mod).
- Vega Strike is a space flight simulation.
- Warsow is a Quake-like, fast-paced first-person shooter.
Clones and remakes
There are a larger number of open source
- FreeCiv is a clone of Civilization II.
- FreeOrion is inspired by Master of Orion.[244]
- Frets on Fire is a clone of Guitar Hero.
- Frozen Bubble is a clone of Puzzle Bobble.
- Grid Wars is a clone of Geometry Wars.
- Head Over Heels,[245]a ZX-Spectrum action platformer, was remade for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and BeOS.
- Oolite is a free and open-source remake of Elite.
- OpenClonk is a free and open-source remake of Clonk.
- Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
- Morrowind.
- .
- Pingus is a clone of Lemmings.
- Scorched Earth.
- Spring[246] originally is a clone of Total Annihilation, but actually is a platform for real time strategy games.
- StepMania is a clone of Dance Dance Revolution
- TuxKart are clones of Mario Kart.
- SuperTux and Secret Maryo Chronicles are both clones of Super Mario Bros.
- The Dark Mod is a stealth game inspired by the Thief (series) games (particularly 1 and 2) from Looking Glass Studios
- The Zod Engine is an actively developed open source remake of the game Z.
- UFO: Enemy Unknown.
- UltraStar is an open source clone of SingStar
- Ur-Quan Masters is based on the original source code for Star Control II
- Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game. Originally published by Eidos Interactive and later released as open source.
- Widelands is a clone of The Settlers II.
- Atari 8-bit and other classic systems.[247]
Proprietary games
Available on Steam
Valve officially released Steam for Linux on February 14, 2013. As of June 2020[update] the number of Linux-compatible games on Steam exceeds 6,500.[248] With the launch of SteamOS, a distribution of Linux made by Valve intended to be used for HTPC gaming, that number is quickly growing. Listed below are some notable games available on Steam for Linux:
- Age of Wonders III
- Alien: Isolation
- American Truck Simulator
- And Yet It Moves
- Another World
- Aquaria
- Bastion
- The Binding of Isaac
- BioShock Infinite
- Borderlands 2
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
- Braid
- Brütal Legend
- Cave Story+
- Civilization V
- Civilization VI
- Civilization: Beyond Earth
- Counter-Strike
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered
- Dead Island
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Dirt Rally
- Don't Starve
- Dota 2
- Empire: Total War
- Fez
- Freedom Planet
- GRID Autosport
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Half-Life
- Half-Life 2
- Hitman
- Hitman Go
- Kerbal Space Program
- Lara Croft Go
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Life Is Strange
- Life Is Strange 2
- Limbo
- Mad Max
- Madout Big City Online
- Metro 2033
- Metro: Last Light
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Mini Metro
- Pillars of Eternity
- Portal
- Portal 2
- Saints Row 2
- Saints Row IV
- Saints Row: The Third
- Shovel Knight
- Skullgirls
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Super Meat Boy
- System Shock 2
- The Talos Principle
- Tank Force
- Team Fortress 2
- Tomb Raider
- Total War: Warhammer
- TowerFall Ascension
- Undertale
- VVVVVV
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- XCOM 2
Independent game developers
Independent developer
Hemisphere Games has released a Linux version of Osmos. Koonsolo has released a Linux version of Mystic Mine. Amanita Design released Linux versions of Machinarium and Samorost 2. Irrgheist released a Linux version of their futuristic racing game H-Craft Championship before later releasing the source code. Gamerizon released a Linux version of QuantZ. InterAction Studios ported several titles mostly in the Chicken Invaders series. GridWars was released for Linux by Canadian developer Marco Inciti.
Young Horses released
Kristanix Games released Linux versions of Crossword Twist, Fantastic Farm, Guess The Phrase!, Jewel Twist, Kakuro Epic, Mahjong Epic, Maxi Dice, Solitaire Epic, Sudoku Epic, and Theseus and the Minotaur. Anawiki Games released Linux versions of Path of Magic, Runes of Avalon, Runes of Avalon 2, Soccer Cup Solitaire, The Perfect Tree and Dress-Up Pups. Gaslamp Games released a Linux version of Dungeons of Dredmor. Broken Rules released a Linux version of And Yet It Moves. Klei Entertainment have released Shank, Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve and more. Tomorrow Corporation has released Little Inferno, Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans. Alientrap released Nexuiz, Capsized, Apotheon, and Cryptark. Freebird Games has released To the Moon, A Bird Story, Finding Paradise and Impostor Factory. 17-Bit released Skulls of the Shogun and Galak-Z: The Dimensional.
UNIGINE Company developed Oil Rush using its Unigine engine technology that works on Linux. Unigine Corp was also developing a "shooter-type game" that would have been released for Linux, but development was later frozen while OilRush developed.[251] The MMORPG game Syndicates of Arkon was also supposed to come to Linux.[252] The game Dilogus: The Winds of War was also being developed with Unigine and was planned to have a Linux client.[253] Cradle was released for Linux in 2015, as was Sumoman in 2017.
A number of
The Java-based sandbox game
Dwarf Fortress, a sandbox management simulator / roguelike, has been made available for Linux by Tarn Adams. [260]
The voxel-based space sandbox game, ScrumbleShip by indie developer Dirkson was under development for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.[citation needed]
The realistic replay baseball simulation Out of the Park Baseball by OOTP Developments was made available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, for single player and multiplayer online leagues.[citation needed]
Pillow Castle Games released
The German indie-studio Pixel Maniacs released both of their games, ChromaGun and Can't Drive This for Linux.[citation needed]
In the
Game porters
Independent companies have also taken on the task of porting prominent Windows games to Linux.
Tribsoft created a Linux version of
LGP-associated but freelance consultant Frank C. Earl is porting the game Caster to Linux and has released the first
The German publisher RuneSoft was founded in 2000. They ported the games Northland,
Aspyr Media released their first Linux port in June 2014,[265] they claim they are porting to Linux due to Valve bringing out SteamOS.[266] Aspyr Media later ported Borderlands 2 to Linux[267] in September 2014.
Having ported games to the Macintosh since 1996, video game publisher Feral Interactive released XCOM: Enemy Unknown, its first game for Linux, in June 2014. Feral Interactive stated they port games to Linux thanks to SteamOS.[268]
Other developers
Some id Software employees ported the
MP Entertainment released Hopkins FBI and Futureware 2001 released a trading simulation Würstelstand in 1999.
Lava Lord Games released their game Astro Battle for Linux. Xatrix Entertainment released a Linux version of Kingpin: Life of Crime. BioWare released Neverwinter Nights for Linux. Croteam released the Serious Sam series, with the first game ported by Gordon and with the second self-ported. Gordon also ported Epic Games' shooter games Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004.
The Project Aon effort to digitize and distribute
Revolution System Games released their game Decadence: Home Sweet Home through Steam only for Linux for a period of time after Mac or Windows release.[275]
On 12 October 2013 Lars Gustavsson, creative director at
We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason," Gustavsson said. "It took Halo for the first Xbox to kick off and go crazy — usually, it takes one killer app or game and then people are more than willing [to adopt it] — it is not hard to get your hands on Linux, for example, it only takes one game that motivates you to go there.
Commercial games for non-x86 instruction sets
Some companies ported games to Linux running on instruction sets other than x86, such as
Hyperion Entertainment ported Sin to Linux PowerPC published by Titan Computer and Gorky 17 to Linux PowerPC which later was published by LGP.
Source ports
Several developers have released the source code to many of their legacy titles, allowing them to be run as native applications on many alternative platforms, including Linux. Examples of games which were ported to Linux this way include
Certain game titles were even able to be ported due to availability of shared engine code even though the game's code itself remains proprietary or otherwise unavailable, such as the video games
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
This is a selected list of MMORPGs that are native on Linux:
- A Tale in the Desert III (2003, eGenesis) – A trading and crafting game, set in ancient Egypt, pay-to-play.
- Crossfire(1992) – A medieval fantasy 2D game.
- Dofus (2005, Ankama Games) – A 2D fantasy MMORPG.
- PlaneShift – A free 3D fantasy game.
- Regnum Online– A 3D fantasy game, free-to-play with premium content.
- RuneScape – Java fantasy 3rd person MMORPG.
- permadeath.
- Shroud of the Avatar – An isometric, 3D fantasy game and the spiritual successor to Ultima Online.
- Spiral Knights – Java fantasy 3rd person game.
- The Saga of Ryzom– has a Linux client and source code available.
- Tibia– A 2D Medieval fantasy MMORPG game. Free-to-play with premium content. One of the oldest MMORPG, created January 1997. With Official Linux client.
- Ultima Online has an unofficial Linux client.
- Vendetta Online – A 3D spacecraft MMOFPS with growing RPG elements, pay to play. Maintains both Linux/32 and Linux/64 clients.
- WorldForge – A game engine. There are Linux clients available.
- Wyvern – A 2D fantasy MMORPG that runs on Java.
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates – A puzzle game which runs on Java.
- Many Virtual Worlds – (such as Second Life) also have Linux clients.
Types of Linux gaming
Linux gaming can be divided into a number of sub-categories.[286][287][288]
Libre gaming
Libre gaming is a form of Linux gaming that emphasizes libre software, which often includes levels and assets as well as code.[289][self-published source?][290]
Native gaming
Native gaming is a form of Linux gaming that emphasizes using only native games or ports and not using emulators or compatibility layers.[236][115][291][292]
DRM-free gaming
DRM-free gaming is a form of Linux gaming that emphasizes boycotting DRM technologies. This can include buying games from GOG.com, certain Humble Bundles or itch.io and avoiding Steam and similar services.[293][294]
Terminal gaming
Terminal gaming is the playing of text-based games from within a console,[295] often programmed within Bash or using libraries such as ncurses.[296][297]
Retro gaming
Live gaming
A number of games can be played from live distributions such as Knoppix, allowing easy access for users unwilling to fully commit to Linux.[305] Certain live distros have specially targeted gamers, such as SuperGamer and Linux-Gamers.[306][307]
Browser gaming
Cloud gaming
On Windows
Although less exploited than the reverse,
Android gaming
Originally derived from
ChromeOS gaming
BSD gaming
Owing to a common
Unix gaming
A further niche exists for running games, either through ports or
See also
- Directories and lists
- Linux gaming software
- Other articles
- Linux for PlayStation 2
- Sega Lindbergh
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One of the selling points of Unreal Tournament pitched to the modding scene by Epic Games was its ability to load assets from the original Unreal into the new engine, further expanding the content base for what was already a highly modifiable game. After a few years this snowballed into a concerted community effort to make the entire Unreal singe player mode playable from within its own sequel, bringing it over to Linux in the process.
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The ever increasing popularity of social gaming is a definite threat to traditional forms of gaming. Social gaming comes in many forms, but an obvious example would be games that can be played on Facebook and other social networking websites where games and statistics can be viewed and shared online with a player's friends. This form of gaming is very limited as the games that can be played via social networks are usually targeted towards casual gamers and not the hardcore PC type. I don't see social gaming becoming an immediate threat to native gaming in the near future and will probably remain a casual space.
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Mesa3D support should help developers using WSL 2 to port games to Linux, as well as allowing complex Unix CAD applications and other design tooling to use WSLg to work on Windows, without needing a full port. If you're worried about application support, we've yet to find anything that didn't work over WSLg. We've been able to run Ubuntu desktop tools, classic Unix games like Nethack's X11 port, Linux games from Steam, a host of different editors and IDEs, the LibreOffice productivity suite, as well as Microsoft's own Edge browser (using it to stream video and audio). The experience of using Linux applications on Windows is much like running Windows applications on macOS via Parallels.
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If you're running KDE or Gnome, you already have a few simple games installed. I'm not a fan of either desktop -- both strike me as bloated and obtuse -- but their games packages are a nice way to pick up a dozen simple favorites such as Solitaire, Asteroids, and Tetris.
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But the real strength of Linux over Solaris is the availability of games. Kay reveals, "If you've got a developer who's been doing heads-down coding for hours, they might want to take a break to use the latest greatest games," she chuckles. "If games are available on Linux now you can get them and use them on your new Solaris workstation. Managers like making sure that kind of thing is available to their creative end users."
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For a small package, it was remarkably complete. Not only was it a standalone operating system, but came with a big box of goodies, such as a Bourne Shell, C compiler, assembler, debugger, DOS disk support, uucp, at least three editors, some games, mail, and around 200 of the most used and useful UNIX commands.
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However, some teams put more energy into doing fun such as running games or playing music by connecting a speaker with their CPU. Group 6, to which I belonged, was a group of such people who loved entertainment, and we decided to run an OS as our team goal.
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SDL officially supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris and IRIX. SDL also works with Windows CE, AmigaOS, Atari, QNX, NetBSD, AIX, Tru64 UNIX and SymbianOS. However, those OSes are not yet officially supported. This means if you write your application using SDL, you can port it with minimal rework to all those OSes. SDL provides a portable way to write games and multimedia applications on every major OS currently in use.
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The rest of the adventure went fairly well. He managed to build SDL and port over some games.
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Remake of Battle Zone (1986) by Justin S. Revenaugh for Apollo Domain/OS, using the GPR graphics library. The game was later ported as XBZONE to X11.
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Thankfully XENIX users weren't all business, and there are at least a few games available for the system. Although the IMG file from Archive.org wouldn't work, we found a working disk image from YouTube user MentionedBefore, who provides a link below his XENIX 2.3.1 VirtualBox tutorial. The disk comes with Worms (not the famous DOS game!), Rogue, Hack, and Trek, plus fortune and mathrec. (And there is a terminal-based version of Tetris somewhere out there!) Once installed, the executables for the games/amusements are found under /usr/games
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The beast is not designed for Windows - its OS preference a version of real time Tru64 using current OpenGL for the platform. Real time versions of Tru64 might be used in a high end arcade game console, with workstations using a more "normal" Tru64 Unix with OpenGL. Quake and Quake 2 are native on Alpha Linux platforms.
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This screenshot shows Facebook, looking rather broken, and DOOM in the front. id Software used NeXT systems to create the famous first person shooter. Relying on the Objective-C based development environment to create most of the tools, like the level editor.
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Anyway, so it felt almost natural to do weird things. Here was a company where hundreds of thousands of dollars changed hands depending on moods and stories, Nextstep was the development environment, and showing up to work and seeing something truly miraculous in John Carmack's office or the art room about once a week was the norm. So when I started calling various workstation vendors like IBM, Sun, SGI, and asking they send workstations in exchange for typing "make", no one was terribly surprised. It was just one more of the weekly miracles, and a lesser one at that. "Oh look. There's our game running in a window on 5 architectures and as many OS's. Huh."