I guess it's not exactly legal to download this one if I don't own it. Nonetheless, for the sake of trying to get it working, I did.
I will not include extensive howto in this post, because it's like 4:15 here and I'm a bit off, but I got it working, although there is no sound. I will try to get that working
in two days, no time tommorow. Ehhm, today, as it's tomorrow already.
I had to use the new LGP installer (creatures_new_installer.run) that is on their archived support page, which required the linuxcie.iso (on archive as well, but of course not on LGP archived page. Probably uploaded by you, as I understand).
This all went fine even for normal user, I just had to manually change the required paths the cli installer presented.
Now, it required some libs, so after getting the right 32bit libs from older distros (mostly FC1) I got this nice thing:
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relocation error: /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices
So I installed FC1 in VM and tried there. All went fine, only to get the same error even here...cr4p
I searched for that and found rather high numbers of similar issues, but no solution. In the end, I had to use the 32bit 1.2 versions of libgtk and libgdk from F33. This got rid of the problem.
Now it runs on M8, but as mentioned, no sound. Neither padsp, nor pasuspender work for this. LGP support mentions the problem and one of the solutions in terms of OSS layer, but I doubt it would work with today's distros. I only tried to install libalsa-oss0.i586 and it doesn't help. K, I will try on friday.
EDIT:
Hm, no sleeping for me yet, don't ask.
Anyway, I was afraid of OSS since I still remember my fun regarding Audigy2 and that PCI video capture card back in the day, but with just the snd-hda-intel in M8 in VM, one just needs to load the basic oss modules: snd-pcm-oss, snd-seq-oss and snd-mixer-oss. Hmm, yeah, no problem.
There are some quirks (some of which I think I already forgot.) that may prevent the game from running in the first place. I will do everything from scratch later and if you're interested, I will post the procedure in its entirety.
Good night do Ostravy