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I’ve never played this game before but I’ve heard of it. I believe it’s because it was one of the few games released on Linux long ago. I always saw it at the top of the games category for Distros.
Awesome to hear first impressions that are not skewed through nostalgia. Thanks for sharing!
You’re right, just like riding a bicycle. It’s crazy how quickly it all came back. Tie Fighter was the first game I received as a gift, before that they were borrowed or uh… acquired.
I’ve actually taken the time to read the control manual and learned some features I don’t remember using as a kid. Just as fun as I remember as a kid, and that’s not always the case with these old DOS games.
That’s so awesome your parents still have your old PC! Was the operating system still usable? Did you still have your old saves? That would be cool to run my old saves. I regret not keeping my old systems and data.
I’ve played both CD and Remake on Linux via Steam using dosbox and wine. The dosbox worked pretty well with some minor tweaks (using linux binary). However, I was having a devil of a time getting the Remake to work with my 8bitdo controller on wine. After many trial and error attempts what ended up working best for me was disabling steam input and using an injected dll mod found at https://github.com/rdoeffinger/xwa_ddraw_d3d11 It not only fixes some 3d rendering issues but also has some input related fixes that solved my controller issues. Then I manually mapped the controller from in the game.
Now that it’s working, I’m playing on the TV with my kids watching. There’s something I never thought I’d be doing ha!
Edit: That DREAMM link is awesome, thanks for that!
Yeah, it was local only at the time. However, fans have ported it to run in the browser for online play. At https://www.webliero.com/
There was also a modest modding scene where fans created levels, skins, weapons and custom tools. There are some remnants of it available online still. Which can be seen at https://liero.nl/
