14 DAY TRIAL // Linux Game Publishing, the company that ported games like "Cold War" and "X2: The Threat" to Linux, prepared a new GUI installer for its forthcoming titles. The application was written to use GTK2 and brings a few new features and improved functionality.
The new installer was announced yesterday on the company's closed beta mailing list for the X3: Reunion game port. The LGP setup utility will be used in future game releases, such as Bandits: Phoenix Rising or Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy.
LGP's application will use the GTK2 toolkit, but in case it's not available on the target system, the installer will use GTK1 and ncurses. The older versions of the setup application did not have any analytical information displayed on the progress bars during the installation process, but things changed in the new version. Besides, it can now be used with larger-sized games, feature that didn't work correctly in the older editions. LGP's installer comes with support for using XDG menus.
LGP has published until now the following games:
￭ Ballistics ￭ Majesty: Gold Edition ￭ MindRover: The Europa Project ￭ Candy Cruncher ￭ NingPo MahJong ￭ Hyperspace Delivery Boy! ￭ Software Tycoon ￭ Postal 2: Share The Pain ￭ Soul Ride ￭ X2: The Threat ￭ Gorky 17 (also known as Odium) ￭ Cold War ￭ Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom
Linux Game Publishing wants to bring good Linux games to market by providing a reseller channel for both ports of games from other platforms and for new games. The company is based in Nottingham, England, and was founded in 2001 by Michael Simms, when Loki Software was filed for bankruptcy. Loki Software was a software firm based in Tustin, CA, USA, which ported several Windows games to Linux, such as: Civilization: Call to Power, Descent2 and Heretic II. The company was founded in 1998 by Scott Draeker and closed in January 2002.