Tribsoft was a Canadian software company that specialized in

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to the

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platform. It was responsible for porting

Jagged Alliance 2 ''Jagged Alliance 2'' is a tactical role-playing game for PC, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and later ported to Linux by Tribsoft. It is the third entry in the ''Jagged Alliance'' series. The game was followed by the expansion '' Unfinish ...

, as well as gaining the porting rights to ''

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'', '' Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim'' and Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business. In the end only ''Majesty'' was ever ported and that was done by

Linux Game Publishing Linux Game Publishing (sometimes also referred to as LGP) was a software company based in Nottingham in England. It ported, published and sold video games running on Linux operating systems. As well as porting games, LGP also sponsored the deve ...

. '' Europa Universalis II'' was also said to be coming to Linux. Sometime in 2002 the owner of Tribsoft mentioned that he was "taking a short break" from porting games to Linux. This break eventually became permanent, when Tribsoft shut down in late 2002.tribsoft is dead, Linux User Group of Davis

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Tribsoft Website (Internet Archive, Jan 22, 2002)Tribsoft at LinuxGamesGamespy - Tribsoft Linux PortsLinux Journal Review of Jagged Alliance 2
Software companies disestablished in 2002 Defunct video game companies of Canada Linux companies Linux game porters

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