Quoting: PyrateThe large file size is definitely an issue, and I suspect it'll become even more prominent over time as I keep downlaoding different version of Proton/Wine. Though I imagine in the future we should reach a point where only one Proton version is needed for virtually everything on Steam. And a select few for edge cases outside of Steam. I wonder if it's also possible to reduce Proton/Wine prefix's filesize too.

I would guess that the new, not enabled by default yet, WoW64 mode in Wine would cut down quite a bit on prefix size, and possibly also on prefix creation time.

There was also some interesting patches for reflink but I'm not sure if that work was ever completed?

Quote"When reflink is supported by the underlying filesystem, new Wine prefix
sizes with Mono and Gecko disabled are reduced to less than 1 MB."

From https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2021-August/193357.html

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The situation with the game data/assets is a bit complicated in this case. Parallax Software owns the copyright for the game, but Interplay owns the Descent trademark and have the right to publish and sell the game.

Presumably Interplay would be less than thrilled about the game data being made available free of charge. Re-releases and old titles seems to be their main source of revenue these days.

Info from here. I presume the non-payment issue was resolved given that all Descent titles are back on GOG.

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Interesting conversation here with icculus trying to figure out if he can release the source for the modern Linux port:

"Okay, I'll email Hervé later today and see if he'll let me release my changes. It couldn't hurt to ask, right?"

From https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3/issues/9

Fingers crossed 🤞

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Quoting: GuestI think those are game engine remasters, while this one is the actual game. I could be mistaken though.

They are based on the original source code release (not FLOSS sadly):
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/descent-source-code-released/1100-2462520/

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Quoting: PenglingSee also, "twunt", which Spider also picked up from me and seemed most amused by.

Oh dear, a bit more on the vulgar side that one, but I'll stick it in the old vocab for later use!

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Quoting: Penglingbint

Oh! New word learned!

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Actually two of the best point and clickers I've played recently have been of the horror variety, The Excavation of Hobbs Barrow and Nightmare Frames.

Haven't had time to try this one yet, but brownie points to the devs for making a demo. Actually a double serving as they seem to have demos for most (all?) of their games!

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Quoting: Luke_NukemAnd fuck the "boomer <genre>" term.

As an alternative I have been workshoping the term greatest generation racer. It polls very well with early gen-x who are a bit too close to boomer for their own comfort!

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Quoting: GuestBoooo. They're addressing Linux issues.

Can't be that much of a surprise? I mean it is a Discord overlay specifically for Linux?

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Support seems to be limited to "RGB capable LED devices in /sys/class/leds/; [...] provided it has .../multi_intensity" which I guess rules out anything needing OpenRGB to function?

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