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Quoting: fleskAurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Thanks for the suggestion! Quite liked the demo, finished it using 2189 left clicks.

I'm not sure if you got stuck on the same place I did, finding the twins? I had to seek help from a walkthrough in the end. But the issue was more like a design bug than an actual puzzle I think.

Curiously the game does seem to have some kind of hint feature that kicked in (unnecessarily) when looking for one of the other kids.

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Quoting: whizseRight, but can Windows do the i386 > amd64 transition? Debian can

(It's very much a work in progress, and not for the faint of heart, but it is possible.)

How I love having old stuff lurking somewhere on the disk. :D
I had my Debian up for some 10 years in 2010 and wanted to keep it, so this is how I've done it back then:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xMn9B_LxJmcJ:https://v13.gr/2008/10/09/debian-i386-to-amd64-conversion/+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk

Nice!

I must admit, I chickened out and made a fresh install. Interestingly though, it there appears to be plans to make crossgrading an easier and supported upgrade path in Debian.

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Quoting: elmapulits possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE

from windows 1.0 to windows 8.
i'm not sure if you can update from this 8 to an 10, but you're being spoiled too much at that point ;)

Right, but can Windows do the i386 > amd64 transition? Debian can

(It's very much a work in progress, and not for the faint of heart, but it is possible.)

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Quoting: gojulI stopped at the tutorial. Try to play it with an AZERTY keyboard and you'll understand. WASD on that kind of keyboard is not exactly convenient, and there's no way to remap the keys as of now. Sooo... waiting until a newer patch.

Possibly of interest?
https://github.com/micolous/sdl-fakeqwerty

(Though I would suggest carfully peruseing the source code before LD_PRELOADing random stuff of Github!)

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Quoting: UnixOutlawI recently bought Blade Runner from Gog, thinking it was something "recent" (it wasn't 'recent'), anyway I downloaded the Linux version anyway, and it wouldn't run - then I figured out - "it's just a ScummvM game", so I can probably figure how to run it in ScummVM, but haven't gotten around to that yet...

Played Monkey Island 1 via ScummVM on my NTC PocketChip (single core ARM 512 RAM) a couple years back and that ran perfectly...

As long as the installer runs and you can locate the game data it shouldn't be harder than installing the ScummVM package in your distro and use "Add Game".

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Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).

(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).

You want unstable, possibly with Mesa packages from experimental if you're interested in in rc-releases.

Backporting Mesa to stable would be difficult. You would need backports for drm, llvm, and the kernel too.

Actually scratch that. I had no idea the kernel was already in backports. I guess backporting Mesa too wouldn't be too much work if somebody was interested in doing that.

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Quoting: vipor29a game you don't want to be turning the lights off on.i made that mistake with the first game and almost destroyed my monitor.

sed 's/monitor/underwear/g'

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Quoting: x_wingUnfortunately I think this Mesa patch won't fix the OpenGL issue. It's definitely forcing an ACO compiler fix (i.e. Vulkan), not to mention that this patch is probably the same as adding this config for radv driver in dri.rc:
 
<application name="art of rally" executable="artofrally.exe">
   <option name="radv_enable_mrt_output_nan_fixup" value="true" />
</application>

You're right

I haven't followed Mesa development that closely as of late, so I wrongly assumed the ACO compiler was used for OpenGL too.

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