How to play Pharaoh city-building game on HD screens in Linux

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by Mrkvonic, Feb 28, 2025.

  1. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    I honestly believe you will enjoy today's article, immensely. This is a sweet, sweet, clever tutorial showing how to play the old Windows 98 era Pharaoh and Cleopatra RTS games on modern Linux systems with HD and UHD displays, covering game installation via WINE in a separate prefix, 96 DPI virtual desktop configuration, Xephyr nested X session matched to game resolution on a separate virtual display, x11vnc server scaled up to system's native resolution, Pharaoh startup in the Xephyr session on the separate display, VNC viewer configuration including encoding and color depth, fullscreen playback, old game saves, and more. Do take a look.

    https://www.dedoimedo.com/games/reviving/pharaoh-cleopatra-hd.html


    This is a gaming-related article, but it covers so many Linux topics, I thought it belonged here ...

    Cheers,
    Mrk
     
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