“Loki Entertainment Software, the premier company bringing
best-selling PC and Macintosh games to the Linux` environment,
today releases their fourth Open-Source project, the Loki Game
Installer [Setup 1.0].
“Setup 1.0 is an graphic installer utitilty with which a
developer can create a simple, easy-to-use standardized install
routine. It uses an XML description file to describe a
package, and provides both a console and a GTk front-end to install
it. The install process even creates an uninstall script in the
install directory which can be run when the user wants to uninstall
the product. Loki has included x86, PPC, Alpha, and Sparc binaries
for this version of the installer.”
“Loki developed Setup 1.0 in the course of porting Railroad
Tycoon II: Gold Edition by PopTop Software and Gathering of
Developers. While Loki is contractually bound to protect the
publisher’s original game code, Loki shares any improvements to the
underlying Linux software code with the Open Source community.”