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Hyperion to Bring IncaGold Games to Linux

Posted by timothy on from the zoom-zoom dept.

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!)"

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  1. erm... by lingqi · · Score: 4, Funny
    An Ominous Cow Erred writes...

    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. =)

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  2. AmigaOS by tmark · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Forget targeting MacOS and Linux, and let's assume doing either or both is viable. But AmigaOS ? That's a business plan gone seriously awry and I have to conclude this company is doomed to failure. And I write this as a guy who is looking at a working Amiga 1000 on his dining room table right now...

    1. Re:AmigaOS by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "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.

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      "Derp de derp."
    2. Re:AmigaOS by Mike+Bouma · · Score: 4, Informative

      Hyperion is the company who is leading the AmigaOS4 project. They are very passionate about the Amiga platform.

      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?s to ryid=278

      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! :)

  3. woo by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!"

  4. Mindnight Racing is a terrible game by recap · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While it's nice to see Linux and even my old favorite Amiga OS get some new software Midnight Racing is a terrible game.

    I picked it up for the equivalent of about $2.50 US and felt thoroughly ripped off. While the screenshots look fine it plays like it was written by someone who's never been in a car much less driven one! On the bright side the DVD style case could be reused after throwing the game out.

    I hope their other titles are better but given Autobahn racing looks like it uses the same game engine I don't hold out much hope.

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  5. Not much of a lineup sadly. by mrseigen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic that Linux is getting more games. I love games. It's just that your average Joe definitely isn't going to jump on with Linux if the entire game collection consists of clones of other games and very few "big-name" games will run on it.

    Porthouses like Hyperion need to start talking to the developers that make big-name games, considering that the publishers certainly aren't taking a chance on it. Simplistic? Yeah. Idealistic? Definitely. But it needs to happen.

  6. Ah very impressive... by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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"

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    "Derp de derp."
  7. And in other news... by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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