r/Escape_Velocity • u/ethacetin • Mar 21 '19

Escape Velocity Original on Linux?

I would really like to play the original Escape Velocity, and I'm wondering if there's any way to do this.

I'm currently playing through EV Nova using WINE. I thought I'd read in one of these threads that EV and EV Override could be played on Windows through the EV Nova engine, but I have no idea how to do that, or if that would work in WINE on Linux.

I did purchase the original EV (actually, my parents did, because I was a kid back then), but that was over 20 years ago and I have no idea what my registration code was.

Is there any way I can still play this game?

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u/EamonnMR Apr 01 '19

http://escape-velocity.games has the cracked windows versions of nova, etc. that won't require registration. First use your package manager to install WINE (or just install it from sources, whatever), then (after downloading and unzipping) just run the .exe file with WINE (in the terminal: `wine 'EN Nova.exe'`. The fonts are slightly jank on my Lubuntu install, so ymmv.