Gaming on Linux since long time 😁

Bonus system requirements:

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    Call to power really was a “let’s throw everything in there and the kitchen sink.” No other civ game has approached its sheer amount of random unbalanced shit crammed into it. Not even alpha centari or beyond earth.

    • miguel@fedia.io
      5·
      1 month ago

      I love that game, I still play it all the time. It’s one of my absolute favorites.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Call to power was the Civ game that got me really into Civ games.

      I had played Civ 2 before it, but Civ:CtP is what really got me into the franchise.

      Such an under rated gem. Can’t believe mainstream civ games still don’t have a space layer.

    • donio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I am only guessing and extrapolating based on how this usually goes:

      • It’s probably possible to get it to run but would take a lot of work
      • It’s probably much easier to just run the windows version under Wine

      While the Linux kernel usually maintains long term backward compatibility very well unfortunately the userspace (libraries) is a different story.

      Looking at the game’s faq the main dependency seems to be SDL. There is no OpenGL or other 3D library requirement. It might also depend on which version was shipped on the CD according to the faq there was an earlier statically linked version (which I am guessing might be easier to get to run) and a later dynamically linked one.