Ethan Lee, the developer responsible for the XNA reimplementation FNA along with around 50 game ports to Linux and macOS has announced the sunsetting of future macOS ports with a big update to a bunch of existing games.
Don't know who Ethan Lee is? You've probably played plenty of games either directly ported by them or running on tech created / maintained by them including: Streets of Rage 4, Superliminal, FEZ, Transistor, Rogue Legacy, Salt and Sanctuary, Owlboy and loads more.
Writing on their IcculusFinger profile page, Lee wrote a few paragraphs about a little history before diving into the current state of Apple products mentioning "I've put it off for as long as I could, but after looking at Apple's trajectory vs. my own infrastructure for Mac support, it's looking like 2021 is the year that I have to say goodbye to the Mac as a primary target.".
The good news for Linux fans? According to Lee, "New games, however, will primarily be Linux (and Windows, if applicable) only.". It also seems quite interesting that console releases have been opening up the gates for Linux ports according to Lee too. This is also backwards to what we often see with Linux support removed (hi Rocket League), so it feels a little odd.
As for existing ports? Lee went ahead and updated over 30 currently live with the latest tech for both macOS and Linux, so you should see the games ported all continue running smoothly in future.
Hopefully Ethan Lee will have many more Linux ports planned for 2021 and beyond.
I also found the bit about drivers interesting, with how users and developers can grab a RenderDoc capture and post it to the Linux Mesa driver issue tracker when encountering a driver problem and sometimes get a response and a fix in the same day - shows how awesome open source can be, compared with Apple "reporting bugs to Apple when you're not rich is like pulling teeth with boxing gloves".
On top of all that? The latest releases of FNA, FNA3D and FAudio are out now.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Wonder if he's considered porting / releasing on the AtariVCS? Most of those games would run wonderfully on the system, and would probably sell quite well right now as the system is starved for some games! And porting efforts would consist of literally just getting it on the store...
Isn't the AtariVCS standard Linux in the end ? I guess one could just install Steam or pull from GOG no ?
slaapliedje Jan 5, 2021
Yeah, it's running Debian derived operating system called apertis.Wonder if he's considered porting / releasing on the AtariVCS? Most of those games would run wonderfully on the system, and would probably sell quite well right now as the system is starved for some games! And porting efforts would consist of literally just getting it on the store...
Isn't the AtariVCS standard Linux in the end ? I guess one could just install Steam or pull from GOG no ?
Ans while you can install on a different drive any Linux that supports Secure Boot and indeed run GOG or Steam games on it, my point was that it would be sweet to have them right there in the Atari Store, which right now is pretty slim on choices, it'd be an incredibly fast port (they're apparently DRM free at the moment as well) and great prominence for any developer to get them there quick (before the general availability of the system in March)
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On the fun side, in French we use something similar for gender neutrality with "ils/eux" which is equivalent to they/them. But now there are some discussions since originally, it is the masculine version of the pronoun. Long time ago it seems we would use the masculine or feminine depending to either who was speaking or the gender of the first noun in a compound subject.
Now we have multiple new usages being discussed either write stuff like il(s)/elle(s), and put all possible suffixes at the end of each nouns. Or (in my opinion) prettier ones like "iel" which would be the gender neutral noun and actually sounds "good" as French.
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Erm... i speak French since now 44 years and nobody except a few militants care or know about gender neutrality. It is not even a public debate. It is a fad for some microcosms. The sole time i saw "iel" it was on a conspiracy-theory hippy blog on the internet.
What is less uncommon, i admit, is the use of what some call "écriture inclusive" which consists of writing "patient.e.s" instead of the grammatically correct "patients et patientes" for example. But again the sole people i have seen using this were some academics of my alma mater (which had always had a bizarre left wing zoo, it is mostly folkloric) My very hippy ex-biking association, a few green politicians and a few writers on poor quality left wing media. It is very marginal.
It has been rejected by both French and Belgian Academies for being useless and too cumbersome. And French is rather an "Academic" language.
What I also see is more acknowledgement of the role of women in professions that are usually male dominated. But no need of butchering grammar for that.
Ah I agree it is not yet "common" as in you see it everywhere. For "iel" I did see it on articles here and there, and I personally find it much better than the il(s)/elle(s) everywhere or the "écriture inclusive" (which is what I called writing every possible suffixes at the end of the noun). I do personally dislike the "écriture inclusive" as it is very hard for me to read, and even after having read quite few texts written that way, it still makes me stop and have to re read many words, which is cumbersome. And completely defeat the purpose of a language to begin with, as it is supposed to be well, "natural" to read your mother tongue, not complex as hell.
And while it's true that French is very academic, I still think it will evolve slightly on gender neutrality. It might come also from being younger, but I do hear more and more persons around me, especially those who are fresh out of university, talking about this kind of stuff.
Now, I agree it is clearly not yet a massive debate in every families :)
That's a conservative/progressive debate and no it's not just on hippies theory complotists blogs (au contraire).
But my point is, it's off-topic here, it's at best irrelevant.
It's definitely politics and feel free to take this elsewhere.
I just highly doubt people care much about our unnecessary complicated language in which we even give gender to objects.
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