What about gaming on FreeBSD?

CShell said:
I read your blog post (above) ... and totally I understand !

Since you are a Harpoon fan you might consider a VERY similar game made in (this century) with an excellent game database called: Command Modern Operations. I have been playing this game for years and I own all the DLC for it. ... and it just happens to be ON SALE right now for 50% off.
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Funny thing is that CMO has been discontinued by Matrix Games, as has the Harpoon bundle.

If you are interested in Harpoon, here is a great article from a couple of years ago discussing its history.
 
CMO has been discontinued? I don't think so.

Matrix games uses a funny copy protection that sometimes make plain Wine ineffective and requires Proton.
 
VulcanRidr said:
Funny thing is that CMO has been discontinued by Matrix Games, as has the Harpoon bundle.
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Well... I placed CMO into my shopping cart on Matrix Games just yesterday as well as "ALL" of the DLC, so I am not sure where you are getting this information. You are correct that they removed Harpoon from their site since I last looked -- but I am pretty sure it was for sale earlier in the year on the site (Admirals Edition).

VulcanRidr said:
Does it work on WINE? I looked on winehq, and it has one listing for it, and it was only bronze.
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So that's why I pointed you at the PROTONDB link (aka Proton Wine) - Command: Modern Operations. If you install FreeBSD wine proton (you might) get this to work IF you follow the recipe that the one guy had for it. See the 3rd item in that post.

You can install wine-proton on FreeBSD here: [14.3-RELEASE in this case]
$ pkg search wine-proton
wine-proton-9.0.3 Wine with a bit of extra spice
$
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But (you might?) have better luck on your Linux dist at the moment. I am trying the install CMO as well but only when I have cycles right now. I am also holding out hope for Wine version 11 on FreeBSD 15.0.

Thank you for the Harpoon links -- I'll take a look
 
CShell said:
Back in the day I also had: Tracon II (box), Harpoon I (box), Harpoon 2 (box), Diablo I (box), Diablo 2 (box), Janes Apache Longbow (box), and a lot of Micropros games (simulation) -- Falcon 3.0 (box) [F16 sim]. Just reading the "manuals" for the sim games took entire days and you learned a lot -- Good times :).
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CShell, that sounds like my game shelf! And you sound like an old fart like me. :D Yup, Tracon II, the Harpoons, Longbow, and I had both Falcons (3 and 4). In fact, Falcon 4 BMS is still being updated I just found out. I also had EF2000 and Tornado...Combat flight sims used to be my jam. Unfortunately flightsims are the absolute worst at running on linux or FreeBSD.

I was always more of a tactical and combat sim guy...But I did get drawn into Starcraft...
CShell said:
Since you are a Harpoon fan you might consider a VERY similar game made in (this century) with an excellent game database called: Command Modern Operations. I have been playing this game for years and I own all the DLC for it. ... and it just happens to be ON SALE right now for 50% off.
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Yeah, but you can tell from my blog, I have multiple homelab projects going on and fighting to get a bronze game working is pretty far down the list. I just upgraded my entire network to 15.0R, dropped plex like a bad habit and replaced with jellyfin, now I am dumping roku and standing TVPCs. Occasionally when I need to take a study break from the projects, I might fire up Harpoon Classic or Tracon in dosbox, but even a couple of hours of Cold Waters is a rare treat...
 
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