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Hyperion to Bring IncaGold Games to Linux
An Ominous Cow Erred writes "Just wanted to let everyone know that Hyperion Entertainment will be bringing IncaGold's game lineup to Linux (as well as AmigaOS and MacOS), starting with Midnight Racing. On a personal note, I'm happy we're giving Linux another shot, being a devout Gentoo user myself! (I should also point out that while the Linux section of the website is kind of old and crusty, there should be more info on the new titles soon!)"
I'm sure a handful of third rate bottom of the barrel unknown games will rocket linux to desktop superiority!
One thing you cant find in the gaming aisle of Best Buy: complete shit.
My karma burn for this fine tuesday. Enjoy it mods.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
That has to be about the most creative name I have ever heard. I do wonder if some chemicals were involved (inhaled, possibly?) during its creation, though. =)
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Blaine you sucker, you could have had FP if you never wrote so much. In the land of the First Posts, he writes the least is King. Unfortunately for you Blaine Hilton, you are just a Joker.
Great move for them. Now they can break into the big leagues of Linux Gaming by releasing blockbusters like "Bowling USA" and "Family Collection", both 1 AND 2. Oooh.
Me, I'm holding my breath for "Paintball Heroes".
"I want to risk our company's future by supporting the Linux platform; it's not widely used, and the few people who do use it don't like paying for stuff."
"Sounds a little bit too safe for me. Let's support AmigaOS too, and we'll be SURE to fail!"
"Great idea, Bob!"
. . . makes a dent in the PC Gaming market. IncaGold, publishers of such classics as Midnight Racing and . . . what else exactly? This is about as newsworthy as me deciding to port my SHA1 hasher utility to Linux. It will mean a whole new world opening up for hashing on Linux! Yeah, we almost care.
Apparently they sell more Amiga ports then they do Linux.
"Forget targeting MacOS and Linux, and let's assume doing either or both is viable. But AmigaOS ?"
It's a brilliant business plan. Mentioning AmigaOS is a surefire way to get free advertising on Slashdot.
Here are a few other phrases that'll earn you Slashvertisements:
- "...battle with Microsoft.."
- "...support for Ogg Vorbis..."
- "...AMD...
- "...ported to Linux..."
- "...Mozilla..."
All you have to do is work any of these phrases into the marketing literature for your product, and BOOM your site gets ground to a halt.
"Derp de derp."
"Three of these things belong together
Three of these things are kind of the same
Can you guess which one of these doesn't belong here?
Now it's time to play our game!
Now let's play our game!
"Half Life 2"
"Doom 3"
"Midnight Racer"
"GTA3 Vice City"
"Derp de derp."
AMD is in a battle with Microsoft to force the version of Mozilla with support for Ogg Vorbis to be ported to Linux.
Damn, this is front page stuff!
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
/tim
Will this be ported to FreeBSD too? That's what I run on my desktop now.
I distinctly remember three things about this awful game:
;^)
1) It didn't matter which track you drove, they were all exactly alike. Lengths varied, but if you've seen the screenshots on the website...well...that's it. That's all you will see throughout the entire game. A highway at night. No change of scenery whatsoever.
2) You steal the cars you drive. This is shown by means of a black screen...with some strange clickety-click sounds coming from the speakers...right.
3) Whilst racing your monstrous beastly eh...not quite ferrari, not quite lamborghini car down the highway, with the engine roaring...you could hear birds singing in the trees and you could hear crickets in the grass along the highway...
(Well...I think that's were they were hiding.. - maybe they were driving the other cars
Hmmm...indeed a very bad game. Had some issues with the graphics as well IIRC, the lights on the cars that came towards you would change colour at random. Or all the lights would just dissappear.