This might be tougher than it seems. Several years ago, I tried to run the Alpha Centauri demo on a recent Fedora system (I think probably 6 or 7), and it wasn't able to start; it did run fine on FreeBSD in linux emulation though. (sorry no details)
Somewhat OT, but I've actually had really fantastic luck running older Windows titles under Wine, even when those same titles won't work under Windows Vista or later. I've actually found it substantially more work to get the Linux port of Tribes 2 (from Loki) working under a modern distro than to simply run the Windows version under Wine. Gosh I wish the Tribes franchise got more attention in those days, but I think the learning curve didn't exactly help.
I really like what Loki did. It's a shame they were too early to market.
