Ok, so corstar's post was whiny...but the point stands that an occasional update would not be that difficult for IV to post. I have no figures on what percentages of their customers are on Mac and Linux, but I do know amongst Linux gamers they've gotten a good rep by giving us something to play that...

Hi - I just posted a HOWTO on this. It is using the supplied SDL with the game. You were close - that environment variable will need to be set, however - you should not put quotes around the actual path (your post shows "/dev/dsp") and you have to make sure you put the correct dsp device t...

Darwinia uses the SDL sound libraries on Linux. SDL will use the default sound device in your system as defined by whichever hardware device links to /dev/dsp. If you have more than one sound device and want to use something other than the default (such as a using USB headset when your motherboard s...

Uplink uses the SDL sound libraries on Linux. SDL will use the default sound device in your system as defined by whichever hardware device links to /dev/dsp. If you have more than one sound device and want to use something other than the default (such as a using USB headset when your motherboard sou...

You can force SDL games to use a given sound device by setting the SDL_PATH_DSP environment variable to the /dev/dspxxx value of your sound device. For example on my system, my motherboard sound is /dev/dsp and my USB headset is /dev/dsp1. I prefer to use the headset, but the default is my motherboa...