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Spaceflight games again
Hi folks,
Well, I've spent a couple of evenings trying to find a space flight game that I can play on my Linux box. Other than Vegastrike (worked fine but I didnt' care for it), I've had pretty much zero luck. I've got both Codeweavers Wine installed and WineX with Point2Play, but haven't been able to find any Windows based games that will run at all. A couple were close, but no deal. Here's a partial list of what I tried. I know a couple are actually DOS based. I tried using Dosbox for those along with other methods, also without luck:
Starlancer (got close with Winex and Point2play but died during loading)
Freelancer (yeah, right)
X-wing (all of them...the original got close with dosbox)
Star Ranger (thought maybe dosbox, but no deal, not even close)
Wing Commander (none of them with and without dosbox. Not even close. Really choked on Prophecy)
Privateer and Privateer II (no way)
Freespace I (I know there's a Linux project for Freespace II, but I don't have that Unfortunately)
Descent (close with Point2Play, but no dice)
Independence War (I and II) (not close)
There were 3 or for others, but they were dos based and I know I had no shot. A lot of these games tap the hardware directly or use their own memory managers. Some, like Freelancer, depend on specific version of DirectX or other things and wine or other stuff makes them far from happy.
This was just an experiment to see if I could fiddle with any of these to even get them partially to work. But no luck.
Just a note. Guess I'll keep my Windows partition on the dual boot machine around for awhile longer.
Just had to try.
stunter
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