There are lots of [old] games that I'm sure many of us would like to see ported natively (either DOS or Win9x games)... I have a couple on my list, actually... problem is that game's market is risky and undertake at this point in time a Linux port of an old game, I'm pretty sure many studios would prefer to fund a new game and maybe ensure it has a Linux native port... The other possibility: release the source and allow the community port the games. This is easy when the game is like Quake or Doom, which had the engine diferentiated from content, and not all games are developed in this way, making the underlying engine too tightly related or integrated with the actual content If the approach was like that of Quake et al, it's easier, since the community only releases game binaries and not actual content, for that you'd require the actual installation disks (and ideally a way to get the content out of them, maybe via an installation program?).

Ooops, I did not want to post that here, sorry

nfs series , civilization 3 ptw

Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil

Don't care if it's a port or a native game, but any driving game or simulation, the only one I know of is Racer, but only a single person develops it. Also, Force Feedback support for usb wheels is a must.

Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City

The Might and Magic series

Neverwinter Nights

Baldur's Gate series

World of Warcraft

Can you tell I'm into fantasy rpg stuff?

Drake

This one has already been ported... Actually the port was anounce about the time the game was anounced... They just took over a year to complete the port, so it has been available for some time now. Have a look at the NWN site at Bioware

Starcraft, Warcraft and all that kind of games.

But THE game I would really spend money for if it was ported to linux is...


W O R M S

(In 2D! The last 3D version is not as good as the former ones). It really is the best game I have ever played.

The new Pirates from Atari.

Diablo II

World of Warcraft

Age of Empires series

Warcraft series

Medal of Honor series

I think there are native binaries for this game over at www.icculus.org, also have a look for the installer at Loki installers for Linux Gamers. This site even has installers for games that run under Wine or Cedega.

[b]EDIT[/b: ]As of may 1st, the Wine(X) game installers are not available, they are looking at solving this, though.

Steam (All games including HL2)
DoW

Thanks very much for the info Thetargos, I appreciate it... didn't realize NWN had been ported. props to bioware!

Drake

Is there an actuall list of current ported versions of games. and how to obtain and install them?

For example, q2 ...

Dark Age of Camolot of Course

command and conquer
starcraft