OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval!
https://lemmy.world/post/21988816
OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval! - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21988112
[https://lemmy.world/post/21988112] > So, great news! > > Not too long ago, the
folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission
from Epic Games to distribute two particular links from archive.org
[http://archive.org] to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament. > > Now
they’ve published installers for automating the installation process, as well as
installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT. > > The installers are available
to download on the links down below: > > Unreal Gold Installer:
https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/
[https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/] > > Unreal
Tournament Installer:
https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/
[https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/] > >
These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be
released sometime soon, it seems! > > Enjoy!
Surreal Engine (formerly UTEngine): Open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, can run UT99 and Unreal Gold (v226) maps, and boot up Deus Ex
https://lemmy.world/post/11057131
Surreal Engine (formerly UTEngine): Open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, can run UT99 and Unreal Gold (v226) maps, and boot up Deus Ex - Lemmy.World
Surreal Engine is an ongoing project to reimplement UE1, mainly focused on
Unreal Tournament v436 and Unreal Gold v226 at the moment. This one has been
discussed in the other linux_gaming community before, more than two years ago.
Since then there were numerous improvements: * It can now run UT99 maps and
Unreal Gold botmatch maps (whereas it was limited to only UT before), and boot
up onto the intro flyby of Deus Ex. * Colission handling is much better (but not
perfect yet). * Can utilize SDL2 on Linux for windowing and native Wayland
support (previously it’d use pure X11, and actually still does if you don’t have
SDL2 installed). * The menus mostly work now. * Initial works for the AI (they
will move around sometimes, and retaliate if attacked). * Game detection system
based on the SHA1 sum of the game executable. This allows us to detect many
versions of UT and U1/UGold, as well as Deus Ex, Klingon Honor Guard, NERF Arena
Blast, and more! * A launcher has been added to select the game you want to play
on startup. And lots of other improvements! There is still a lot of work to do
to implement everything though, and contributions are always welcome!
NVK Gaming (but with an RTX 3050Ti): Unreal Tournament v469d RC4 (with and without GSP firmware)
https://lemmy.world/post/9057261
NVK Gaming (but with an RTX 3050Ti): Unreal Tournament v469d RC4 (with and without GSP firmware) - Lemmy.World
Thought of giving it a try myself, after seeing the other NVK Gaming videos in
this community. Building Linux 6.7 was kind of a pain though… :V I happen to
have an RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, so I can try things out with and without the GSP
firmware. I had tested a game from the 90s (I don’t wanna try out heavier games
until the driver is more mature) but still, the performance difference is quite
visible.
TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2)
https://lemmy.world/post/8304126
TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2) - Lemmy.World
Note that I’ve linked the latest version at the time of writing this (3.0.2),
the original 3.0 version with its changelog is available here:
https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0
[https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0] For a quick rundown of
things: Tomb Raider (1996) is the very first game of the critically acclaimed
Tomb Raider series made by the late Core Design. Its available to buy in Steam
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/224960/Tomb_Raider_I_1996/] and GOG (as a
bundle of the first 3 games) [https://www.gog.com/game/tomb_raider_123], with
remastered versions of the first 3 games set to release in Feb. 14, 2024 Unlike
the rest of the “classics”, Tomb Raider 1 was a DOS-only application, which is
rather inconvenient to get it working; or it would be if the fans didn’t figure
out a way to get the TombATI version of the game (a port made for very old ATI
cards) working on the modern Windows OSs. TR1X is made by the reverse
engineering of the said port (by employing the methods from a similar project
for Tomb Raider 2 named TR2Main [https://github.com/Arsunt/TR2Main], which is
also where the previous name Tomb1Main is inspired from), and vastly improves
upon it. The changes are far too many to list here, but the highlights include
much further drawing distance, TR2+ style controlling for Lara, a New Game+
option, fully customizable gameflow (both for modding and making self imposed
challenges), Gold expansion (Unfinished Business) support.
