Playing Red Alert 2 in full HD...

- Go to Red Alert 2 installation folder
- Open RA2.ini file
- Edit Video segment

[Video]
    ScreenWidth=1920
    ScreenHeight=1080
    StretchMovies=no

Enjoy!

RA2 gameplay

Playing Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D in full HD...

Having to use modern OS such as Windows 10 means no classic games. I have an old game installer of Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D.

Since I love the game so much, the solution:
Windows XP in VMWare.

Unfortunately, the game can be play on 1024x768 resolution max.

Luckily there's a patch for it.
Download it from here.

- Extract the zip file and run uniws.exe.
- Click Find it for me button, or you can search Rogue Squadron.EXE manually.
- Set New Resolution to 1920x1080 then click Patch button.
- Run Rogue Squadron, go to settings -> video and choose the custom resolution that has been patched.
- To revert back the patch, click Undo Patch button.
- Done! Enjoy the game.

UniWS patcher

Rogue Squadron 3D video settings

Game play screen

Note:

Since this is a virtual machine we're talking about, theoretically it should be fine in Ubuntu as host OS. However after installing VMWare Tools especially SVGA driver, Windows XP loads on blank screen with sound. For now, I just have the virtual machine under Windows 10.

Update - 21/09/2019:
I'm able to solve the VMWare Tools installation after run the command below on Ubuntu host OS.

sudo apt install libncursesw5

Playing Id Software classic games on Ubuntu using ZDoom...

ZDoom is, essentially, an advanced source port for Doom. However, it doesn't just support Doom/Doom II... it also has support for Hexen, Heretic, and Strife.

1) Installing dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get install g++ zlib1g-dev libsdl1.2-dev libjpeg62-dev nasm tar bzip2 libgtk2.0-dev cmake build-essential

2) Get ZDoom sources from ZDoom Downloads Page or Subversion Repository (recommended).

3) If you want to use the sources from Subversion, execute the command below

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

4) Create programs folder in your home directory (optional. this is for newbies only)

$ mkdir programs
cd programs

5) To obtain the latest version from the SVN, use the following command

$ svn checkout http://mancubus.net/svn/hosted/zdoom/zdoom/trunk

6) Download FMod package and save it in programs folder created earlier or you can execute the following command.

$ wget http://www.fmod.org/index.php/release/version/fmodapi42608linux.tar.gz

7) Unzip FMod package by using right click and extract here or the following command

$ tar -xvzf fmodapi42608linux.tar.gz

8) Now you will have a folder with a structure like shown below

    /
        /home
            /your-username
                /programs
                    /fmodapi42608linux
                    /trunk

9) Rename folder fmodapi42608linux to fmod-4.26.08

10) Rename folder trunk to zdoom

11) Using terminal (at this point you are still inside programs folder), go to zdoom folder

$ cd zdoom

12) Invoke CMake to parse the ZDoom source and get ready for compiling

$ cmake -DFMOD_INCLUDE_DIR=~/programs/fmod-4.26.08/api/inc -DFMOD_LIBRARY=~/programs/fmod-4.26.08/api/lib/libfmodex-4.26.08.so

13) Compile the code

$ make

14) If all goes well, an executable zdoom and the zdoom.pk3 file will be generated in the directory. To start zdoom, use the following command

$ ./zdoom

15) ZDoom will try to search for the IWAD files from $HOME/.zdoom or /usr/local/share. If you have an IWAD files in a different location, simply edit zdoom.ini located in ~/.zdoom by adding the path in [IWADSearch.Directories] section

# These are the directories to automatically search for IWADs.
    # Each directory should be on a separate line, preceded by Path=
    [IWADSearch.Directories]
    Path=.
    Path=$DOOMWADDIR
    Path=~/.zdoom
    Path=~/programs/id-classic-wads/
    Path=/usr/local/share/

Note:
Installation steps tested on Ubuntu 9.04 and Linux Mint 7
ZDoom SVN revision: 1880
FMod version: 4.26.08