I found the error

it turned out that mc was not unpacking uplink.zip correctly
after I unpacked the file with unzip it worked fine
(world.dat was missing if I unpacked the file with mc)

No idea at all

the stupid thing is the demo works perfect
only the full game is refusing to work ;(

Having the same problem The demo works fine however :) here is the output of the debug file =============================================== NEW GAME     18:56, 8/1/2004 =============================================== Version : 1.31 RELEASE Linux Build Version 1.31 (RELEASE) Compiled on Sep...