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#1 2008-10-10 07:13:25
- dav7
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Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Topic.
In a nutshell, do games like those - games that are sidescrolling, use low-resolution playing fields and have infinitely complex but enjoyable storylines and maps - exist in a Linux-native format?
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#2 2008-10-10 07:59:42
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Wow commander keen brings back memories... including cosmo's cosmic adventure.
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#3 2008-10-10 08:04:19
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Just making sure you know about http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17804
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#4 2008-10-10 09:14:46
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
creslin: 
bender02: Wow, nice... except they haven't implemented sound yet 
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#5 2008-10-10 09:31:00
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Maybe you should take a look at MAME? 
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#6 2008-10-10 09:31:31
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
What about Commander Keen itself + dosbox? If there is interest I can make packages...
In the last weeks I played again some of the games of the times when I was child... old memories.
Blood, Magic Carpet as newer, but also Commander Keen and Lost Vikings 1|2...
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#7 2008-10-10 09:47:20
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
check out clonekeen
http://clonekeen.sourceforge.net/
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#8 2008-10-10 10:06:55
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Blood! I remember Blood 2, that was an awesome game.
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#9 2008-10-10 11:23:11
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
arch0r: Are you sure it's all that recent? That project's News section says that Beta 8.3 was released in 1918 
j/k j/k
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#10 2008-10-10 11:24:20
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Oh, and with MAME, I remember many years ago trying to boot what the listing said was an "original XT". It didn't work. I disliked MAME from then on in. 
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#11 2008-10-10 11:47:52
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Oh, and with MAME, I remember many years ago trying to boot what the listing said was an "original XT". It didn't work. I disliked MAME from then on in.
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Well, the thing is that when I was running windows I never really got MAME to work at all. When I switched to linux it worked like a charm. You REALLY should try it out man, there's like 16000 games.
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#12 2008-10-10 12:05:28
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
*dies*
How many TBs is that?!?!//34875634865234
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#13 2008-10-10 12:26:17
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
*dies*
How many TBs is that?!?!//34875634865234
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*checking*
16.2 GB.
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#14 2008-10-10 12:51:58
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
O_O
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#15 2008-10-10 15:20:20
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
I run Duke Nukem 3D on dosbox perfectly. I've got balls of steel.
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#16 2008-10-10 15:52:01
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
dav7 wrote:
*dies*
How many TBs is that?!?!//34875634865234
-dav7
*checking*
16.2 GB.
17.43GB are the ROMS (ver 0.127, from http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk ), but if you really want all games you need all the CHD that are 72.12GB!
Total 89.55GB...
I remember time agon I bought an hard disk for this sole reason.
Anyway, there is interest in those oldies packages?
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#17 2008-10-10 17:06:15
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Wowowowow... almost 100GB.
I WANT MY NEW COMPUTER
(and the overly much amount of diskspace it would naturally come with )
</rant>
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#18 2008-10-10 17:19:08
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
dmz wrote:dav7 wrote:
*dies*
How many TBs is that?!?!//34875634865234
-dav7
*checking*
16.2 GB.
17.43GB are the ROMS (ver 0.127, from http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk ), but if you really want all games you need all the CHD that are 72.12GB!
Total 89.55GB...
I remember time agon I bought an hard disk for this sole reason.Anyway, there is interest in those oldies packages?
Oh, I've never really understood what those CHD's really is.
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#19 2008-10-10 17:37:30
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
*guesses*
Compressed Hard Disk
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#20 2008-10-10 18:33:25
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Commander Keen is great; I was playing it last month and it works perfectly in wine.
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#21 2008-10-11 03:08:45
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Hrm.
Wasn't there more than one episode? The PC I was given with it on it only had episode... man, it'd be fun to get the others. Same for Duke Nukum.
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#22 2008-10-11 05:19:50
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
I recently acquired (from the internet ) the six episodes of the Commander Keen series and the three of episodes the original Duke Nukem. Other old school games I remember as a kid are Crystal Caves and Paganitzu, which I am going to find now....
Edit: Old shareware games: http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html
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#23 2008-10-11 07:14:37
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Hrm... this has got me itching for DOS again.
I have an old box I can create a 112MB partition on for DOS...
Oh! Oh! And I has a SB16 too
AND... I has... everything required to get the network card in that box working under DOS with Novell Netware (LOL)
(What games would use THAT?!)
...
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#24 2008-10-11 07:22:12
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
Or you could use dosbox...
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#25 2008-10-11 07:49:37
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Re: Classic-style games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukum for Linux...?
DosBox + this computer = 1MHz AT. Or thereabouts.
(It's not that slow, but I can guarantee it'll be pretty unusable-ish, especially if I enable sound and stuff.)
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