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Helpful Links:

Aleph One - Marathon is open source! Download the trilogy or many fan made scenarios for free.

Playing Marathon Online: A How-To Guide - Be sure to register your username here; the same login information is used when logging into Aleph One!

Aleph One Metaserver - Powers the matchmaking lobby and chat room for Aleph One network games. View who's online and recently played games here!

Simplici7y - Net game map database.

fileball.whpress.com - Older map database.

archives.bungie.org - Even older map database.

Resources:

Marathon's Story - A massive archive of Marathon's history, discussion and classic Bungie goodness.

Marathon Spoiler Guide - Reveal secrets or hints on completing the game and finding hidden areas.

Bungie.net - Official site of Bungie

The Pfhorums - Active Marathon Forums

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Linux support, ever? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by pirat@lemmy.ml to c/marathonthegame@lemmy.ml

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I'm sad as this series is one of my favorites from my childhood and I was so excited to see where things went.

I don't have any windows anymore and don't plan on dual booting just to play.

I hope that they will turn on the battle eye proton support but who knows.

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[–] DataBlade@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt it will get Linux support due to one reason: BattlEye

It is the kernel level anti-cheat that they use to ~~prevent~~ deter client side hacking. Which currently doesn't have Linux support. https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathonsecurity

For Destiny, I always wondered why they didn't leave it off by default for PvE (missions, ops, etc). And only enforce it for the PvP modes. That would have allowed for at least partial support on Linux.

[–] pirat@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I hear that but battleye has native Linux support for quite some time. It's up to devs to turn on support or not so that doesn't make too much sense.

also since most of the anti-cheat methods they are implementing are server side rather than client side, so again, doesn't make too much sense to me.

[–] DataBlade@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the link, didn't know they now support Linux.