Alpha Linux and games?

When I started with Linux I thought it would never be possible that we would see video games like for DOS under Linux.

Then came the port of Doom to Linux and I nearly could not believe it.

When I started with Linux on other architectures like Linux Sparc and Linux Alpha I thought it would never be possible that we would see those video games for them.

And again I was wrong!

The game developers seem to have realised that many guys who like to play games also like to "play" Linux ;) And here we are now with sources to two great games, i.e. Doom and Descent, and binary versions for a third, i.e. Quake.

The following games are currently in my posession ;)

• Doom
  • Alpha binary compiled by me with RedHat 5.0
  • Patch for Alpha by Thomas Bogendörfer
  • The source (unpatched!)
• Quake
  • Alpha binary from Linus FTP site at funet.fi
• Descent
  • Thomas Bogendörfer did it once again ;) Descent runs an Alphas. It still has some minor bugs but it is playable!
  • SVGAlib binary version (faster than X11)
  • X11 binary version

To do:

• The Alpha Doom version still has some small bugs, for example it exits with a seg-fault.
• The Linux Descent version still has some minor bugs which should be fixed.