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I am so happy to see this! Thank you Liam for everything you do, and I will keep support this site and loving the community and features here 😁

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That's one of the classics where I'm not sure if I'd actually enjoy it today.

The graphics were absolutely superb, and I guess that might have glossed over the glaring deficiencies in gameplay. The strategy part was fairly minimalist. Firing catapults at castle walls was fun. Sword-fighting was manageable, but don't ask what the best way to go about it was, other than frantically clicking away with the mouse. No clue how to pull off the tournament.

And the major selling point, the kiss scene, certainly hit different at age 12 than it would now :-).

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Thank you for this message and your website. Keep fighting the good fight (against AI slop)!

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Not only is your stance on AI understandable, it's phenomenal! I'm really glad to see you clarifying your position. Among everything being ruined by AI, it's good to know this site will remain great. Keep on keeping on!

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AI can be used to spell GamingOnLinux and Liam so it's technically not entirely useless! 🐧

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My only wish is what you used an em dash somewhere in this post to mess with us.

Love what you're doing man!

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I didn't know of this game, but it looks beautiful and fun! Added to my wishlist!

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Quoting: Liam DaweArticle updated. See the bottom note.

just keeping digging that hole buddy. DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG.

"because it's such a big fuss" is such an infantile ridiculous statement (and reason) to "put back the attribution". I think my 3 year old handles getting in trouble better than this.

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People drive cars, cars pollute, some people can't drive.

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Rock and roll and stone!

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Rogue and stone!

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Another thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

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One of my favourite games on Amiga, but also a VERY simple game once you get the hang of it. If they don´t manage to expand it in a lot of way, I can´t really see myself playing this seriously nowadays.

I still love that they are doing this and it looks really nice. For a 30-Minute nostalgia trip, it sounds quite tempting at least.

@Eike: Never played the PC version, so I cant say for sure, but that was a common problem with many games back then. It wouldn´t surprise me. Most towers used to have a speed-button to switch the CPU-speed for that exact reason (I remember my first PC could switch between 33/133mhz). The Amiga had the same issues if you had a turbocard installed. Not with every game, but many of them.

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This is getting ridiculous. The author knows his software. I fully support this author. As I side note, I fully support the use of Claude. It is the ONLY AI That I am able to trust with my code. The hts-time app.

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Quoting: LinasCall me skeptical, but this is probably going to be some unnecessarily fancy wrapper for a subpar emulator.

It's a LRG release, so it's a given.

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Call me skeptical, but this is probably going to be some unnecessarily fancy wrapper for a subpar emulator.

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If I remember correctly, the PC version didn't adapt to the CPU speed and ran way too fast on my system back then.
Anybody knows if that's correct?

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Oh, this is most definitely going on my "wish" list, because there's some sick games there!

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Good stuff. I didn't even know it was psychological horror when I bought it, I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. Simple gameplay, tense feeling the whole time, and I liked the ending.

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Quoting: KandarihuI don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

If Microsoft or Google were interested in stopping that, they would be lobbying against it, where is all that heavy lobby power that mega corps, specially big techs, have and love swinging around? As a matter of fact, Facebook is lobbying to pass similar bills that force app stores to have age check.

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Article updated. See the bottom note.

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Played this a lot on my Amiga 500. I'm not sure I'd still enjoy it as much as I did back then, but I'll keep an eye out for reviews.

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Wonderful! This was the first game I got for my Amiga and I loved it. The graphics and cinematic feeling were just mindblowing at the time, when you came from a C64/ZX Spectrum or other contemporary machines.

Even though the C64 version of this game was allegedly superior in gameplay, the Amiga version still started my love affair with Cinemaware. "S.D.I., King of Chicago, IT Came from the Desert, Lords of the Rising Sun, Rocket Ranger, Wings!" I bought everything from them as long as they existed.

Will buy this for certain!🥰

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There are several critiques that can be made from different angles.

* From the "I just want to get things done" perspective, using these tools might or might not make sense. All rigorous studies I have seen state the productivity increase for experienced devs is negligible when not negative, and it comes at a high cost (loss of codebase understanding, cognitive decline...). But well, there's lots of people telling it helps them a lot, that people doesn't know how to use it, that Claude 4.6 is really the thing and earlier models where shit, etc. So I will give it the benefit of the doubt even if I'm not convinced at all.
* From the code license/copyright perspective, using these tools is a legal minefield. There's already an EEUU judicial sentence saying generative AI outputs cannot be copyrighted. And on top of that, there are several studies demonstrating how all LLM "frontier models" can output entire copyrighted books almost verbatim. How can you guarantee Claude is not outputting code from other software project with a non compatible license?
* From the ethical perspective, is when using these tools is without a doubt very very wrong, I have said it several times and will repeat it again: **there is no ethical use case for generative AI**. For these tools to be somehow effective at what they do, they need to suck tons of resources (energy, chips, raw materials) and data, most of it copyrighted/licensed. The generative AI craze is causing a massive resource hoarding by a handful companies (that want you to own nothing and rent everything from them), is feeding a gargantuan bubble that is leading to an economic collapse, is accelerating climatic collapse (with so many countries backing off their environmental compromises because of the AI craze), is actively being used to kill people (yes, Anthropic tools are also used actively for this, Amodei has always said he is OK with using Claude for war, he only backed of two very specific points: completely autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, but he is completely OK with everything else, including using Claude to select targets to bomb).

You might want to get things done, risk the legal issues and don't mind the ethical aspects and then use these tools. But don't try reasoning these tools are ethical. They are not. And Lutris is a tool for GNU/Linux users. Maybe most Windows/macos users don't mind that much, but many of us in the GNU/Linux community are here because we care about ethics. So it should not be that difficult understanding you will get pushback when writing GNU/Linux applications using unethical tools and procedures.

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I could never get into the original so I hope this one will be slightly easier to get into

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While I realise the morality of models trained on stolen code is as yet, unsettled, to me that's one of the smallest issues. From a pragmatic point of view, we're all trained on stolen code when we study and gain experience as developers. For me, unethical use of AI would be the specifics of how it's used. For example, re-licensing copyleft software is genuinely easy now, and a huge threat to open source. I think vibe-coding is a fast way to an unmaintainable project that nosedives after a month or so, but as an aid to an experienced programmer who thoroughly understands everything that is being output it will be a boon, only enhancing the project. While I understand you could say 'How are we supposed to vet responsible use, how about we just say no across the board?', this developer is demonstrably proficient with this codebase already, so what's the big deal?

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If you already understand the problems on capitalism, but then use the tools of a capitalist company that will atrophy your programming skills and basically take away your means of production, then I don't know what to tell you anymore...

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPCan we get an "S for Slop" rating? 😂

We definitely need a rating like "not suitable for human consumption" ;-)

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Can we get an "S for Slop" rating? 😂

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Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: F.Ultraso the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.

How much of this is "in theory"?
Because that seems like an (in reality) impossible task outside planned organised events like a music festival.

"We spent half an hour trying to figure it out, which burned through all the money"

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