![]() This is the open-source Freespace 2 core engine. Therefore if you're running Fedora and want to begin playing the latest open-source, upgraded FreeSpace 2 the straight forward way then I've documented my simplified, start to finish guide for Fedora 18 for you. Their guide is comprehensive but many links and pages are involved and so it becomes a bit of a slog. no.Īs with some open-saucy type projects, the only set of end to end instructions that seems to exist for Linux is a mighty wall of links & text. Now it should really end there, I installed the thing, used the old disks to grab the content, had a wail of a time, went and did something else. Rather than shuffling towards the drudgery of trying to get FS2 working under Wine or the even worse experience of having to exit what I had running in the background, rebooting into Windows 7 (ugh) and trying to get it working there, I noticed during my search-fest that there's a FreeSpace Source Code Project (FCSP) that is actively developing the open source, multi-platform version of the Freespace 2 binaries called FS2Open! Sometimes life just throws you a bone. ![]() I decided to embrace the old school and dig out my copy of Freespace 2 which is meant to run perfectly under Wine according to the Wine AppDB and I remember it very fondly, well after a straight forward Wine install it didn't work on my Fedora 18 installation currently running Wine 1.5.24. Unfortunately the epic space sim genre is not the vibrant part of the game industry it once was. (Yes there's Vendetta Online but that's only free for so long). After a brief flurry of searching the web for something free, recent enough to look cool and immersive and would run under Linux or Wine I was pretty disappointed to find. Was sitting here this snowy Sunday afternoon craving for a bit of good ole space sim action.
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