Brett I. Holcomb schreef: > Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I > wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who > was no more. >
Loki may be no more, but the Loki Installer is alive and well, and quite able to save one's bacon, using either native games that just have Linux binaries and take the data files from the Windows disks, or Windows games that must be run under Wine or Cedega, but whose installers don't work (properly) under either. See Loki Installers for Linux Gamers at http://liflg.org and to buy what native stuff is available, try TuxGames at http://www.tuxgames.com/ . I find their prices a bit outrageous, but you are supporting the community if you buy from them, so that may make up for it. And on a side note-- Half-Life 2 being ported? I don't think so... I'm sure I heard that HL2, like HL, will *never* be ported. But Cedega tied themselves into a pretzel to get it running (and Steam as well, although I heard that a recent Steam patch broke the whole shebang again), and I know that the Wine developers are beavering away madly to get DirectX 9 support into the package (mostly for WoW, but also for HL2, Myst 4 and Pirates!, those being the games that I've heard mentioned being tested against the incomplete patchset). Not that I care, of course... I have an ATI card using the fglrx drivers, so even half the things which *are* supposed to work under Wine and/or Cedega do not (although native stuff generally runs fine, including Doom 3. Too bad I have no interest at all in playing Doom 3, having never liked the Doom series). So I try not to get all excited about things that will work in the near future, as nice as it would be to finish Myst 4 (and Uru). Until ATI gets their driver act together (or I find the money to buy nVidia), I'm kinda SOL in any case. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
