I had the same problem, but I couldn't get it running without running in windowed mode. Also, I misread the line about running in windowed mode (since it says MINUS fullscreen, and the fact that it said fullscreen at all threw me off. Why would windowed mode say fullscreen? In any case: -graphics_fu...

aradil@laptop:/usr/local/games/uplink$ cat readme.txt | grep fullscreen uplink -graphics_fullscreen would start the game with fullscreen DISABLED, while starting it like this: uplink +graphics_fullscreen will start the game with fullscreen ENABLED. graphics_fullscreen sets the game to run fullscreen...