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If only they could get access to the Lucas Arts collections.... I've run Tie Fighter in DOSBox but there can be joystick and sound issues.
If they add a native version of Alpha Centauri im sold. Loki's Alpha Centauri port was the game that didn't make me miss Windows anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Software#Games_published That list is pretty much all I'll ever need.
In the long term I suspect the best option for SMAC is a binary reverse-engineer and re-implement. The original game has a number of bugs ( http://www.civgaming.net/smac/acad_buglist.shtml ) and isn't even a very good Windows port (it uses a crazy 16-colour video mode that really doesn't like alt-tab).
Or we could run a kickstarter to open source it ..
GOG is a good platform. They don't always have the cheapest offer (not even for "their" games, Witcher 1 und 2), but they have a good mission, being DRM free. And it was about time there was a good place for buying the classics, computer games are old enough for that now (so older games are not automatically too old to enjoy if you didn't grow up with them).
And think about the perspective. 2 years ago, there was nothing if you wanted to reliably play games on linux, apart from the few old games released for that OS and the few good FOSS-indie games. Wine is nice, but not reliable. Now there is the humble bundle, there is Steam, and there is also GOG - three good options, two of them without DRM, all of them not expensive.
It starts to become viable to get rid of Windows even if you are a gamer (I'll probably wait for League of Legends and Planetside 2 though, but only because I have Windows 7 already installed. If that breaks, why bother?).
If they add a native version of Alpha Centauri im sold. Loki's Alpha Centauri port was the game that didn't make me miss Windows anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Software#Games_published That list is pretty much all I'll ever need.
This might be tougher than it seems. Several years ago, I tried to run the Alpha Centauri demo on a recent Fedora system (I think probably 6 or 7), and it wasn't able to start; it did run fine on FreeBSD in linux emulation though. (sorry no details)
If only they could get access to the Lucas Arts collections.... I've run Tie Fighter in DOSBox but there can be joystick and sound issues.
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This might be tougher than it seems. Several years ago, I tried to run the Alpha Centauri demo on a recent Fedora system (I think probably 6 or 7), and it wasn't able to start; it did run fine on FreeBSD in linux emulation though. (sorry no details)
I wouldn't call Fedora 7 recent. It was released 7 years ago.
I do not understand why they keep (kept?) bundling the games' datafiles with the emulators/runtimes.