Ankh officially announced for Linux
December 25th, 2006 by LightkeyRuneSoft announced the 3D adventure game Ankh to be in final testing stages and ready for shipment in 2006^H7, thanks to the successfull pre-order campaign.
The system requirements were announced as well:
Linux x86 with X11 installed and glibc 2.2 or better.
Minimum: 1 GHz processor, nVIDIA GeForce 4 series or Radeon 8×00/9×00, 256 MB RAM, 900 MB HDD.
Recommended: 2 GHz processor, nVIDIA GeForce FX series or better, Radeon 9500 or better, 512 MB RAM, 900 MB HDD.
Ankh is now also available for international pre-orders at Tux Games.
*Update*Well what do you know? According to comments over at Holarse Ankh shipped already on December 22. Although quite buggy.
December 27th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Good News, the first commercial game available for Linux in 2007.
Ballistic is scheduled for the 15th January, but as Ballistic is a vaporware like Duke Nukem Forever, we cannot expect it in 2007
December 28th, 2006 at 11:52 am
do not look that bad. has anyone seen any reviews?
December 29th, 2006 at 3:52 am
The game is officially available at Tuxgames stores
December 29th, 2006 at 5:33 am
so ankh is actually a 2006 linux game
didnt play it much yet, though
the game comes packaged as english and german version on cd-rom
it installs fine, and on my notebook (pentium-m 1.7ghz, ati 9600/ desktop 1680×1050, 1gbyte ram, ubuntu dapper) runs fairly well.
after install it uses up about 841mbyte
from playing it a few minutes i must admit though, that there are some missing sound files and at least one scripting error, so patches should be available sometime soon i hope – i need to check for some bug report/patches/update page for it first
i havent played far yet, so i cant give any overall conclusion about stability and i never played it on windows, nor read much about its content so better look elsewhere for other reviews if you want that.
December 29th, 2006 at 5:45 am
i hope my copy will ship soon then, i preordered one, too:-)
December 30th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
got it!
now i just need to install a 32bit chroot, because it isnt running well under native amd64 it seems:D
January 1st, 2007 at 3:47 am
There is a review at http://www.adventuregamers.com/ and with any luck, this will inspire them to release the second one, Ankh: The Heart of Osiris, on Linux too, since that was just released in Germany.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 am
It’s just a shame the preorder campaign was a fake. It isn’t possible they could have had the discs made in a week, the time between the campaign finishing and the time when preorders started to ship. Looks like we were all taken for a little ride there.
It would have made sense, instead of making them early and then putting us through a farse of a preorder campaign, to take that time and fix some of the bugs that were in the copy I received.