Loki Linux Games on FreeBSD

Danny Howard dannyman at toldme.com
Tue Oct 11 13:14:52 PDT 2005


On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:54:35AM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote:
> On October 10, 2005 09:33 am, Sean wrote:

> > Of the several I have the ones in particular I would be most interested
> > in getting to work are Sim City 3000, Railroad Tycoon II, and Civ: Call
> > To Power.

> Have a look at /usr/ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic for an example.
> 
> Additionally, my experience with CivCTP was to ignore the CD's install script 
> and instead copy the files manually.  After installation, flag the executable 
> as coming from a Linux system using
> 
>     % brandelf -t Linux civctp
> 
> Of course, this assumes that Linux emulation is enabled and that you have all 
> the dependencies installed.  Note that I had some issues running this game as 
> an unpriviledged user but haven't bothered to figure out why.

As memory serves, this is pretty much what I had to do to get RT2
running as well.

You might also try out simutrans, which is a freeware thing:

http://forum.simutrans.com/

-danny

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