System Shock portable and System shock 2 on linux?

[675113ef5b607niculinux]

Good night!!!

I'm really happy to be part of the community! 

I was wondering if linux user may get the chanche to run and play SS portable and SS2 on linux, here, my 2 cents:

Regardin SS portable, it might be possible to realize packages of the games for different linux distros (.deb, rpm, ecc) or maybe distribute it as precompiled and/or even inthe form of source code, as "last hope". But packages may be included also in the repositories, so taht would be great and increase evn more the number of users/fans of the game 

As for SS2 well a really neat solution may be to realize a"partial port" of the game, so that user should own the original data file of the game, without installing and runnin it via wine 

What do you think? Even it wild tak age to realize such, any chanches?

I wish so, plus I'm a very very very newbie liunx user 

[675113ef5b869voodoo47]

SS1 should run fairly well via dosbox, which has a native linux port (and it should be fairly easy to create a linux dosbox friendly package from the current version od ss portable). SS2, patched up with SS2tool, runs flawlessly via wine.

[675113ef5b9f3Blue Lightning]

Wow, SS2Tool really makes things easy (thanks!) and with the current state of Wine it's insane how well the game runs under Linux these days. The only glitch I noticed was that the sound takes about a second to initialise; could be a Wine issue or something else on my system. Doesn't really affect the game's playability though.

Huzzah!

[675113ef5bb1aLegion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYlrv0kbdA

This gives me hope that one day SS2 will play on my android Box, phone, tablet, devboard

[675113ef5bc06Blue Lightning]

Could just as easily be x86 in those devices

[675113ef5bd05Legion]

The problem is that X86 devices that small are still very expensive.
The smallest X86 chipset I saw costs $1200.
Were as a tiny match box sized octa core android mini pc costs $45
and evetually in 1 year the price will drop to $29 for the same device.

[675113ef5be06GiggyTheEvil]

So how would I go about getting from windows-dosbox SSP to linux-dosbox SSP? I don't know where to start, but it would be pretty cool to get this running on my Raspberry Pi.

[675113ef5befbvoodoo47]

as long as you have doxbox up and running, it should be just the matter of running the exe in it. not sure whether the Rpi is fast enough to get a playable speed.

[675113ef5c0ccBlue Lightning]

Hmm, well re Windows + Dosbox on RPi, if it works at all I suspect the speed will be agonisingly slow.

I've now completed the game in Linux and everything worked reasonably well - the game still has the occasional random crash just as I remember it on Windows but most of the game was very playable. However one very annoying glitch I experienced was that towards the end of the game as I progressed through the Rick/BoM it started to take progressively longer to load and save games, and became only capable of loading once per session - the second time it started to load and just crashed. I also found once I had got to Rick Pod 2 I could no longer go back to the VB - when I went down the umbilical the game took a very long time to load, and once loading had finished I was placed in the primary elevator at the start of the map with no inventory items. Near the end of the game it was taking minutes to load/save. I'm not sure if this behaviour was as a result of running in Wine, related to the 2.4 patch, or just because my save game had somehow become subtly corrupted, but it was certainly annoying.