Well, there is some good news, according to Ryan C. Gordon's Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-descent-33611585
The Steam version has been recompiled for Linux and Mac. Now if only those binaries could be ported to the disc based versions of the game...

Just recently tried out your guide to get a Windows install converted to Zorin OS 8 (*buntu 13.10, basically). Did all the symlinking of libGL and /dev/js0, but had a hell of a time getting something to recreate an OSS sound server. padsp, which was suggested in a few threads across the 'net, did ...

I forgot whoever said they would love to play Descent with their minds, but this should certainly interest just about anybody. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/475/1/ If this really works, I wonder how many would buy it? I certainly would be hard sold to hang up my stick, but I'm sure this would ...

I'd definately go with the CEN Matrix, it's a good mid-performance buggy, meaning there are both cheaper and more expensive 8th scale buggies out there. If parts are a problem, then I'd suggest when you first get the car, get spares of what will most likely break, these include the suspension arms ...

Damn that looks like fun! Forget the laptop I'm getting myself one of those. Any suggestions on were I can go look into it to see what I should get and not? Look no further than your local hobby store, check your yellow pages, or if that's not possible, check out Tower Hobbies or Horizon Hobby ...

on a side note, without googling, does anyone here do the R/C plane thing? i wonder where a good place to get started would be in this hobby... they sell those 'AirHog' R/C things, but i can't imagine them being any good... One kind of plane comes to my mind instantly when I think of a good entry ...