Video games and Linux (English Wikipedia)

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  • Tackett, Jack (1997). Special Edition. Using Linux. United States: Que Corporation. p. 287. ISBN 9780470485460. The X Windows version supplied on the accompanying Slackware CD-ROM in the /contrib directory is a complete hareware version. (The Red Hat distribution automatically installs the game during installation.) Although this version runs on 386 computers, it was built to run on high-end 486 systems. If you run DOOM on a 386 with a small amount of physical RAM, be prepared to be disappointed; the game will be too slow to be enjoyable. You need lots of horse-power to play DOOM under Linux.

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  • Pendleton, Bob. "Game Programming with the Simple DirectMedia Layer". ACM Digital Library. 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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  • "Games". Agenda Wiki. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2023.

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  • Ritchie, Dennis (June 2001). "Ken, Unix and Games". ICGA Journal. 24 (2): 67–70. doi:10.3233/ICG-2001-24202. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2023.

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  • "Hands on with WSLg: Running Linux GUI". Bleeping Computer. May 29, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2023. While Hedgewars is not a Linux-only game, I wanted to include it to show that even games can run under WSLg. While WSLg is likely not designed for gaming, the fact that you can play games using it shows the full depth of this new feature.

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  • Barkakati, Naba (1996). Linux Secrets. United States: IDG Books Worldwide. p. 96. ISBN 9781568847986. This disk set contains a collection of well-known UNIX games (X is not required), such as Hangman, Dungeon, and Snake. The set also includes id Software's DOOM. (This game comes in two versions, one runs under X, and the other runs without X.) You may want to install this disk set just so you can try out DOOM.
  • Parker, Tim (1996). Linux Unleashed. United States: Macmillan Computer Publishing. p. 981. ISBN 0672313723. DOOM - This exciting, though controversially gory, game is now ported to Linux as well. Complete with sound support and exquisite graphics, this Linux port does its DOS counterpart justice.
  • Anonymous (2000). Maximum Linux Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Linux Server and Workstation, Volume 1. United States: Sams Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 9780672316708. A classic, and very easy-to-follow SUID attack is the on the file /usr/lib/games/abuse/ abuse.console—part of a game that was distributed with Open Linux 1.1 and Red Hat 2.1. Yes, you read that right: Even a game can be a security risk to the system.
  • Schrier Shaenfeld, Karen (April 10, 2016). Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts. Lulu.com. p. 265. ISBN 978-1329703568.
  • Chalmers, Rachel (June 1999). "Sun Releases Tool To Make Linux Apps Run On Solaris". AUUGEN. Australia: AUUG. p. 29. Retrieved March 5, 2023. 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."
  • Armstrong, James; Kent, Les (November 22, 1993). "32-bit desktop operating systems". InfoWorld. United States: IDG Communications, Inc. p. 75. Retrieved March 5, 2023. Once a user is logged in, a window displays a number of icons that group some standard applications: Accessories, Applications, Preferences, Disks, Games, Shutdown, System Setup, Utilities, and Folder Maps. User can open any file or folder by double clicking on the appropriate icon.
  • Sanglard, Fabien (December 10, 2018). "Chapter 3: NeXT". Game Engine Black Book: DOOM. p. 103. ISBN 978-1099819773.

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  • "Fiddling with NeXTSTEP". posts.boy. December 29, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2023. 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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  • "LibTAS FAQ". Retrieved March 18, 2023. If you have Windows 10, the easiest way is to use WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run libTAS. Otherwise, you can install a Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu) on a virtual machine (e.g. using VirtualBox).

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  • "Games/Arcade". HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre. Retrieved March 4, 2023.

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  • "FORTRAN Computer Games". The Cyber Vanguard. November 18, 2022. 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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  • Ritchie, Dennis (June 2001). "Ken, Unix and Games". ICGA Journal. 24 (2): 67–70. doi:10.3233/ICG-2001-24202. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2023.

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  • Bisson, Marilyn (October 19, 2020). "Is Linux Good For Gaming?". Eldernode. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  • Bisson, Marilyn (October 19, 2020). "Is Linux Good For Gaming?". Eldernode. You can also play through the terminal; Of course, it depends on your expectations and definition of the game! But if the goal is entertainment, the Linux terminal offers you funny and nostalgic choices.

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  • Ritchie, Dennis (June 2001). "Ken, Unix and Games". ICGA Journal. 24 (2): 67–70. doi:10.3233/ICG-2001-24202. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2023.

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  • Stallman, Richard. "Linux and the GNU System". GNU Project. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2022. Some of our system components, the programming tools, became popular on their own among programmers, but we wrote many components that are not tools. We even developed a chess game, GNU Chess, because a complete system needs games too.

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  • Williams, Al (May 3, 2017). "Your Next Desktop… QNX?". Hackaday. Retrieved March 5, 2023. The rest of the adventure went fairly well. He managed to build SDL and port over some games.

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  • McIntyre-Bhatty, Hamish (May 21, 2018). "Cygwin review part 1: Running Linux programs… on Windows?". Retrieved March 18, 2023. Can you run games? I have absolutely no idea, but I would guess the answer is no, because of the lack of hardware access. I did have a quick look for games like Neverball and Extreme Tux Racer, but they were nowhere to be found. When I follow this up, I'll look a bit harder, and maybe try compiling them. Really, it's kind of pointless, because you could just run the games in Windows.

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  • Knight, John (May 2021). "Exploring Microsoft's forgotten Unix distribution". Linux Magazine. Retrieved March 18, 2023. 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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  • Lucas, Michael (March 22, 2001). "FreeBSD Gaming". ONLamp. Archived from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved July 9, 2023. 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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  • "Games". Oracle Solaris Blog. October 30, 2008. Retrieved February 28, 2023.

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  • "PHT Products". Pacific Hitech. 1998. Archived from the original on December 6, 1998. Retrieved April 4, 2024. Formerly known as 'Linux Games++', this is a collection of the best entertainment and multimedia programs for the Linux operating system. It also contains multimedia development tools to assist you in creating your own games and multimedia applications for Linux. This is the latest issue, volume 4, and features a new and improved user interface. The CD contains packages for i386, DEC Alpha, and PPC platforms. This product is only available through Walnut Creek CD-ROM.

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  • Jowitt, Tom (May 26, 2017). "Tales In Tech History: Unix". Silicon UK. Retrieved March 5, 2023. The developers wanted to play the game on a PDP-7, a minicomputer built by Digital Equipment Corp found in the corner of their building. But the game couldn't be run run on more modern (and hence costly) equipment, as computing resource was a precious commodity back then. By the summer of 1969 they had developed the new Unix OS that could run the computer game and in 1971 the first ever edition of Unix was released. A second edition of Unix arrived in December 1972 and was rewritten in the higher-level language C.

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  • Hills, James (June 19, 1999). "Interviews - Dave Taylor, Transmeta". GA-Source. Retrieved March 21, 2023. 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."

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  • Bisson, Simon (April 23, 2021). "Linux on Windows: This new upgrade allows you to run graphical apps simply and effectively". Tech Republic. Retrieved March 18, 2023. 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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  • Smith, Tony (April 11, 2001). "Linux games console fragged". The Register. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
  • Magee, Mike (September 6, 1999). "1.6GHz Alpha to be fastest Quake chip on planet". The Register. Retrieved March 5, 2023. 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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  • Zinoune, M. "Options for Linux Gamers". Unixmen. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  • Zinoune, M. "Options for Linux Gamers". Unixmen. Retrieved March 19, 2023. 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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