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)
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...