On my Fedora 7 computer, I have a Radeon 7000 Video Card from ATI. Since dropping Windows last spring, I have been trying to get my favourite games to work on Linux. Some of these Games Doom 3 and Quake 4. When I try to run the Linux port of Doom 3, every thing seems fine until:

WARNING: vertex array range in virtual memory (SLOW)
signal caught: Segmentation fault
si_code 1
Trying to exit gracefully..
Shutting down sound hardware
----------- Alsa...

We will soon be releasing a new Source Release of Free Empires. It will have several improvements, such As: :)
1. A market where you can buy and sell resources
2. New buttons on the bottom Bar
3. A functional Terminal/Chat Box
4. Primitive resource Gathering
5. A start to building Villagers from the Town Centre
6. Sounds and Music
7. New Gold and Stone on the Top Bar

We may also have a new menu in this source release. This is not as...

The Free Empires Source Code was released today. This includes the Gambas Project File, along with its Graphics. We also included some Sound Files so people can work on getting Free Empires to play Sounds. We did not include our map Scrolling Code because it is in Development and messes up the Code.

For those interested you can download it from My File Ho FTP Server: http://fileho.com/download/b30f5e180110/FESourceRelese1.tar.gz.html

Installation of id Software games for anything after Quake III Arena was easier than I thought it would be. However there is a Problem. The Linux installer assumes that you have the Full Version CD rom in your hand to get the pak (Level data) to its needed directory. The thing is, I don't have the Full Version I want to play the Demo. I cant access the Hard Drive wich has the shareware pak files on it. And you can only download the Windows installer for the demo on the internet. If only there was...

I knew there was a want for a Linux Age of Empires but I did not now that there would be such a huge amount ready to help it be built. I have had a surge of people going to the Piga Software forum http://piga.7.forumer.com/index.php in the hopes of helping the project.

Another thing Free Empires seems to be doing is increasing awareness of GAMBAS http://gambas.sourceforge.net which I hope will help that project as well (it is a great Program). If you are interested in Free Empires...