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Meanwhile back in 2004, Epic released Unreal Tournament 2004, with a dedicated Linux installer on the first disc.
Correct me if I’m wrong but it was hidden on the last disk! (And the box did not mention it in any way)
Good times.
I conveniently had my UT04 retail box sitting on the shelf next to me. I can confirm there's a little penguin on the back of package, and under OS requirements they list Linux with an asterisk explaining it's not supported by Atari (publisher).
There is nothing else in the manual indicating how to use the Linux version, which disk to use, or any additional information that I can find.
Edit: geez I miss game manuals sometimes. All the game mechanics are so nicely explained, and it has instructions to setup modding tools!
You may absolutely be correct, I only learned of it a decade after I bought the game.
Still awesome to include a native Linux version of the game back in 2004!
Unreal Tournament ‘99 for my nostalgia vibes. 🥹
Epic shut down the UT2004 master server back in this spring, before it died the community had created a new public master server, I had to edit the master server address in ut2004.ini but it works.
Epic does deserve credit for running the master server for a game for 19 years, regardless of their current actions, that deserves mad respect.
They even ran their stats tracking service untill then IIRC...
I played it
As have I (:
Gentoo gaming. Now I play xonotic.
About ten years ago, I switched to Linux, but two years later I switched back to Windows for gaming, I didn't want to have to deal with gaming on Linux and fiddle with settings to get it all working.
I know that things have changed and that gaming on Linux is far better now, but as I now work mostly in Windows, I am just too comfortable with it to switch again right now.
Get rid of convenient things, that's how they get you!