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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!)"
If I remember correctly, that Midnight Racing game was bundled with TNT2 video cards to show off the graphics, pretty much. It was bottom of the barrel, bargain bin demo-ware when it was released however many years ago.
But it was good for a few hours ofmindless racing with little in terms of physics. Decent graphics, pretty colors, so there might be some value to it.
I'd think twice before stipulating that Linux is a viable market, and that AmigaOS isn't...
Hyperion have been making AmigaOS ports of PC games for a while now - when Loki was around, Hyperion were seen as the Loki of the AmigaOS world. The difference between the two companies is that one is a small but successful company that continues to produce and sell products, and the other is very, very dead.
Hyperion have ported games to Linux before, namely Shogo: MAD and SiN. They decided not to do any more after those though, since they sold poorly compared to the AmigaOS versions. I'm glad to see that Hyperion are giving Linux another shot though, even though I spend a lot more time gaming on my GameCube than my PC these days...
Hardcore gamers are quite different from Joe Sixpack, the extremes they will go to for a "few fps more" include things like physically hacking their motherboards and/or video cards.
Gentoo seems like a distro made for such people, just don't tell them to
emerge --update nethack
or you might not hear from them for weeks.
Hyperion have ported several games to Amiga in the past including Shogo: M.A.D., Freespace, Heretic II and Quake 2.
They have been at a consistantly high level of quality.
They are also first and foremost Amiga developers. They have already tried to port to the Linux market, but found out that the Amiga market was more viable. The Mac market is naturally even more so.
Besides this they are also developing AmigaOS 4.0...
Hyperion is the company who is leading the AmigaOS4 project. They are very passionate about the Amiga platform.
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:)
After the demise of Loki Games, Hyperion is probably the most important commercial Linux game developing company left on the market today. They now have a really impressive list of Amiga (and Linux/Mac) licenses and released products (Heretic2, Descent Freespace, Shogo, SiN, Soldier of Fortune, Majesty, Worms Armageddon, etc, etc!), but have been pretty quiet lately due to their top programmers leading the AmigaOS4 project, as well as being hired by Mai Logic for developing the AmigaOne/Teron firmware ROM.
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?
Considering their expertise in many different fields the "Entertainment" part of Hyperion's name is a bit misleading though. For instance they also have a AmigaOS4 license for porting Real3D, a great professional 3D Raytracer. They changed their name from Hyperion Software to Hyperion Entertainment simply because there was another company with the same name already.
Keep up the excellent work Hyperion!