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EDuke32 is an awesome, free homebrew game engine and source port of the classic PC first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D— Duke3D for short—to Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, several handhelds, your family toaster, and to your girlfriend's vibrator. We've added new renderers, hundreds of cool features and upgrades for regular players, and thousands of additional editing capabilities and scripting extensions for mod creators. EDuke32 is completely free, open source software.

Developed between August 2004 and now by Duke community leader Richard "TerminX" Gobeille and NVIDIA software engineer Pierre-Loup "Plagman" Griffais—and incorporating work by 3D Realms/Ken Silverman/Jonathon Fowler/Matt Saettler, what started as a learning experience and an excuse to learn C soon rose from obscurity to become the best Duke Nukem 3D port ever.

EDuke32 is licensed under the GNU GPL and the BUILD license. http://eduke32.com/

http://eduke32.com/ + http://hrp.duke4.net/ = DN3D on any current system. Its ridiculous amounts of fun with VERY pretty visuals.

There's a cross-platform port for duke3d. You don't need an emulator.

You really should try eDuke32 especially with the High Res Pack.

Like others here I can verify it works well in DOSBox. For multiplayer in windows xDuke + YANG seems to have online players whenever I check. For the single player experience I recommend eduke32 (which can be further extended with the High Resolution Pack and Polymer 3d engine)

YANG - http://yang-online.com/
xDuke - http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/~klein/duke3d/
eduke32 - http://www.eduke32.com/
HRP - http://hrp.duke4.net/

Well on it's way.

http://www.eduke32.com/

Considering this is my project, this comment pleases me. ;)

Well on it's way.

http://www.eduke32.com/

Just one word: eduke32.

Oh yeah. That, and "groovy".

You can enjoy an updated DN3D with the help of EDuke32 and the High Resolution Pack. Be sure to grab the HRP preview for the new Polymer renderer if you want all of the latest visual goodies.

just open source the engine that runs it, because quite possibly you wrote a new one.

Look at the Doom and Quake engines, etc Doomsday is a nice example of that and you can take the WADs from your old ID games, even if they only played on DOS with a PC and Doomsday can be ported to other platforms besides Windows. eDuke32 is a Duke Nukem engine and you can buy the DOS Duke Nukem program for $5.99 if you lost your old floppy or CD, or if you are new to it, just pay the $5.99 and use the data files to play under eDuke32 then.

I bought my son a Sega Genesis 40 game collection for the Playstation 3. He likes them. Heck on the PC and other platforms there are emulators but you need to buy the ROMs. This Sega Genesis 40 game PS3 sounds like such a good idea it should be sold for Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS X systems. This way old games can still be played on modern systems. So even if the company does not open source it, they can still sell the old version to modern systems and use an emulator or something and then a whole new generation of fans enjoy it.

I grew up with the Atari 2600, a member of the IMagic Numb Thumb club and won an Activison Chopper Command contest at a local store and got a poster for it. I was so close to beating the Swordquest series until Atari canceled it for some reason, otherwise I would have qualified for the main contest to see if I could win the prizes that are objects used in the game with gold, silver, and gems to make them. I heard a rumor this was one Jack Trermiel left Commodore and bought out Atari and then to save money canceled the contest. I had an Atari 2600 ready to buy an Atari 800 computer until I learned how Atari treated their programmers and fired a lot of them and they formed IMagic and Activsion, and some went to Mattel and others to Coleco to make a system to compete with Atari. So when the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga 1000 came out I bought the Amiga 1000 and never regretted it. I got an Amiga 500 that replaced it and run my Bard's Tale on it, and hope Western RPG games like that make a comeback as every RPG (or most) are Eastern based Japanese Anime stuff, so when I ask Gamestop for Nintendo DS games that are RPGs based on D&D and stuff, does not exist they claimed. Man I want to learn Nintendo DS programming and write my own RPG using Western European and US themes in them. Paladins, Warriors, Bards, Clerics, ect. :)

I don't pirate games, I buy maybe 2 or 3 new games and a handful of used ones from eBay over the course of a year - otherwise I'm revisiting old titles from my collection, installing mods, updated engines, etc. I'm currently having a great time replaying Duke Nukem 3D and additional episodes with eduke32, runs nice on Windows & Linux...

However, copy protection isn't just about piracy, piracy just gives the games companies an excuse to foist the protection on everyone.

In reality, this is because a whole heap of very rich people don't like the fact that you or I *own* stuff, they'd much rather we *rent* stuff, set up a nice bank debit to pay them some money each month and threaten to stop the stuff working if we stop paying them.

The games companies are now also starting to hate the PC. The combinations of different hardware and OSes make games more difficult to produce than on a "same the world over" console, plus the fact that the PC is an open platform means you can install all manner of applications to crack their games open.

It's quite obvious that the current strategy is to make life as uncomfortable as possible for PC gamers so that they give up PC gaming, buy consoles and get their games fix on those instead.

JFDuke has been out of development for a long time. The most active and advanced (more features for mods) source port now is Eduke32, which has taken a lot of code from JFDuke.

eDuke32 is an open sourced Duke Nukem 3D project. It needs the Duke Nukem 3D game data files to work, and if you lost your Duke CD they can sell you a copy for $5.99. It works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, but only the Windows version is compiled, you have to compile the Linux and Mac OSX versions; although they claim to have a link to precompiled Mac OSX files.

It is not Duke Nukem Forever but it has some advanced features and a link to Dukeworld to get fan made content creation and new maps and levels to keep you playing Duke Nukem almost forever. It can support resolutions the original couldn't and fixes a lot of game killing bugs the DOS version suffered from.

EDuke32?

I don't know what work things you require, but Doom and Quake both work well on linux. Duke3d too. If you like old games, you'll find that very many of them are well supported on linux, either through source ports or emulators.

Duke3d works great under dosbox. It works even better if you replace the dos4gw extender with dos32a. If you want fancy 3d accelerated graphics, there's eduke32.

It's still a lot of fun after all these years.

Done. NEXT!