Gaming on Linux since long time 😁

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    Oh I have that too and it must be in a box somewhere, I’ll have to look for it. Unfortunately I never got it to run back then :(

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    Call to power really was a “let’s throw everything in there and the kitchen sink.” No other civ game has approached its sheer amount of random unbalanced shit crammed into it. Not even alpha centari or beyond earth.

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      It’s a shame they never made a second one, I remember it being pretty good.

      All games were good when I was that age though…

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        They did. It wasn’t quite as good ( awful UI iirc ), but still a decent game. You can get it on gog too

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          I’m torn between whether they meant they didn’t know there was a second game or if it’s like me saying it’s too bad there was never a second Matrix movie.

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      I love that game, I still play it all the time. It’s one of my absolute favorites.

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      I am only guessing and extrapolating based on how this usually goes:

      • It’s probably possible to get it to run but would take a lot of work
      • It’s probably much easier to just run the windows version under Wine

      While the Linux kernel usually maintains long term backward compatibility very well unfortunately the userspace (libraries) is a different story.

      Looking at the game’s faq the main dependency seems to be SDL. There is no OpenGL or other 3D library requirement. It might also depend on which version was shipped on the CD according to the faq there was an earlier statically linked version (which I am guessing might be easier to get to run) and a later dynamically linked one.