The big bad guy from the original game, doctor Devan Shell the mad turtle scientist, is back with another nefarious plot to kill our hero. In addition to smoothly animated cartoons, funny antics, and varied levels, JJ2 boasts a charming plot that is told via comic-book style intro movie (missing from this CD-rip, though).
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a superb 2D platformer, a sequel to Epic Megagames' earlier shareware classic Jazz Jackrabbit. On that note, you're welcome to use any of my wrappers to do official releases if you want :) Although some of them may not be possible due to requiring certain native components where licensing may be a blocker (especially where such components are made by Microsoft).One of the best side-scrolling arcade games ever made, bar none.
to try to make the experience more like playing native games, as I try to do with my wrappers. Plus wrappers can offer more than simply getting the games running things like save handling, performing some initial display setup etc. Even for more experienced users, some games can still be a huge pain to get running in Wine when you don't know exactly what's needed to get them working. More experienced users can just set up Wine themselves but that's not an option for newer & less advanced users, for whom Wine can be very daunting & a major hassle to use. It's a very similar situation to DOSBox really. Quoting: linuxvangogthey meet, sadly, with poor reception, aka "meh, I could easily just run it with Wine myself" I just tell people to install their system's Wine package & let the package manager take care of the rest. Quoting: linuxvangogthey offer a less-than-perfect user experience, since user needs to install loads of 32 bit dependencies and there's no going around that Not just to preserve the history of gaming, but some retro titles really are quite amazing. As I've said before numerous times by now, I consider keeping classic games alive, playable and legally purchasable a very important job. Find them all on GOG right now.įantastic to see more classic games arrive with pre-packaged Linux support, so that Linux gamers don't miss out on some truly retro games. They also added Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection today, but it doesn't have a Linux download. I tested them and they work without issues: It's your choice, since they're DRM free. You don't have to use the DOSBox they come with of course, you can just take them right out of the install folder and put them wherever you want, to play with your system-installed version of DOSBox. GOG have revived some more classic games today as they have released Epic Pinball: The Complete Collection and Jazz Jackrabbit Collection which have Linux support.ĭisclosure: GOG sent over copies for me to ensure they work.Īs usual, the Linux versions come with their pretty installers powered by MojoSetup, this gives you the game plus a pre-packaged version of DOSBox to enable pretty much out of the box gameplay.
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