Four New Linux Games Debut WIth New Humble Bundle

[Smask]

What year was that? I assume the beginning?

Spring 92, Linus had done the version jump to 0.95.

[philip550c]

I remember when support meant mailing a guy in Finland who wrote the kernel. I think it was wonky memory (on school computer) that generated non-maskable interrupts. Installation was a bunch of tar files and a kernel. Then I stumbled upon a free distribution called SLS.

What year was that? I assume the beginning?

[smitty3268]

There's a lot of game on Steam that have Linux version but that are simply not enabled. All those DOS based game that ship with DOSBox could be enabled. Most of ID Software games too, and old Unreals. I really whish Valve will try to fix this.

I imagine Valve can't legally do anything themselves, other than contact the original publishers and ask them to release it on linux. Which hopefully they are doing.

[AJenbo]

There's a lot of game on Steam that have Linux version but that are simply not enabled. All those DOS based game that ship with DOSBox could be enabled. Most of ID Software games too, and old Unreals. I really whish Valve will try to fix this.

Problem with ID's games is that it's with out punkbuster support.

[werfu]

Yes but not all for Linux.

There's a lot of game on Steam that have Linux version but that are simply not enabled. All those DOS based game that ship with DOSBox could be enabled. Most of ID Software games too, and old Unreals. I really whish Valve will try to fix this.

[WebMac]

not all of them are available for linux in steam though, incredipede and greed corp are not on steam for linux

True! The developer of Incredipede mentioned on the Steam forums that he wanted to roll out his game on Steam for Linux some months ago. Apparently he changed his mind. He also mentioned that the Linux version would'nt have the same graphics, since he used Adobe Air for his game, which only runs with software rendering on Linux. Maybe that's the reason he finally canceled it?
Anyway, he made his game available for free on Linux! -> http://www.incredipede.com/linux.html

I can't seem to get Worms to work with the steam install. Looks like the app directory is empty, and I keep getting a missing executable error message. Anyone else get this?

I'm experiencing the same issue.

[curaga]

If I recall, they even had a SNES port of the first game. Considering I still find it decent today, I'm sure it was a blast back in the day.

I have that somewhere in my closet. The Worms SNES cart, complete with box and manual :P

[Smask]

I remember suse back around 2001 I think, my brother bought it, it came in a nice box with professional packaging and a manual lol

I remember when support meant mailing a guy in Finland who wrote the kernel. I think it was wonky memory (on school computer) that generated non-maskable interrupts. Installation was a bunch of tar files and a kernel. Then I stumbled upon a free distribution called SLS.

[shmerl]

Converting videos helps (inside the movies subdirectory there):

for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i $file -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 9 -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 5 ${file%%.*}.ogv; done

[shmerl]

Hm, if you convert those videos from mp4 to ogv, would that help? The videos don't play for me. HB also offers two different files, no idea what is different though. I got TheBardsTale_Linux_1381813411.tar.gz