Ppc

Here is a blast from the past…way back past… I loaded OpenSuSE 11 on my G4 Cube and remembered I had a few of the old Loki Games. Here are the games with ports to Alpha/PPC/SPARC: [Civilization: Call to Power ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization:_Call_to_Power) Myth II: Soulblighter Railroad Tycoon II Eric’s Ultimate Solitaire Heroes of Might and Magic III It is mind boggling that at this point in Linux history (2000-2002) that someone decided to port these! The great thing about GCC and SDL is cross compiling is pretty simple. With that said supporting these must have been a nightmare for Loki.

Why Linux and which one? Let me take a second to review: Debian Stable 4.0 – Too old! You can’t expect me to be spoiled on my x86 architecture with the latest GNOME and Firefox and then jump back to Debian stable Debian Testing “Lenny” – Too new! The kernel is a step ahead of the Mac-On-Linux folks and therefore negates my ability to still run MacOS in Linux. Also had a heck of a time with my 6200 Nvidia Card in framebuffer. ...