Currently testing my pi 4 retropie's dosbox version with this month's game of the month of the Dos Game Club: the quirky rts Z.

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A venerable project; I distinctly recall it getting started shortly after the disastrous release of the master of orion II sequel that shall not be named.

That's in 2003 ...

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Having recently acquired a raspberry pi 4, I decided to test its opengl capability with Aquaria, a game even older than gamingonlinux. It compiled without problems (just follow the instructions on the github page), and runs okey on the pi4, I think its opengl drivers still need some work.

It's one of the earlier original humble games, never got around to dig into it (the downside of the rise of all those bundles ^_^), so taking the opportunity to do so now. It's really a beautifully crafted little game.

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Set up a new retropie system on a pi4 and copied over the rom file of Golden Axe from sega's genesis collection on steam. It's really annoying I had to download the bloated piece of manure (sega's emulation interface) to get to the pearl (the collection of roms), but worth it, certainly at the 1/3 sale price that collection is regularly at.

I've found Retroarch's new runahead mode feature greatly improves the emulation experience, either through placebo or through actually reducing lag.

Also dug up my copy of zeliard. The pi4 is able to handle that game on dosbox+munt mt-32 emulation without hiccups now \(^_^)/

Unfortunately, the darkplaces quake build still needs a bit of maturation before its performance is up to snuff.

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Quite a few bundle-sellers in there.

Personal highlight for me would be the Dragonruby game tool kit. ($50, though the devs have also been generous with providing free copies)

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Quoting: STiAT150k for over 100 patents does not sound a lot. It isn't. The walk away settlement speaks of that.

Seems this company wanted to make sure their patents are not used by commercial big players, and realized there is little gain not providing it for open source since it helps adoption. Restricting would mean they just do not support it.

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Don't forget the high risk of having their patent invalidated. In general, patent trolls go for the (seemingly) weaker guys to scare them into settling, so they can later go after bigger players with all those settlements under their belt to convince them to follow suit.

This, of course, does not work if the "weak guy" unexpectedly shows some (legal) claws, so it is no surprise the company settled, especially when gnome went for their throat by aiming for invalidation of the patent in question.

Imo, this deal is *not* good news; it let the patent troll get away with their patent intact, showing that open source projects can be a source for these kinds of settlements (notice that the gnome press release of the deal conspicuously neglects to explicitly mention whether the patents in question should have been invalid in the first place). This will unnecessarily drain resources and peace of mind from the projects that get threatened, not to mention the risk that some of them could decide not to risk the financial drain and close down.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: emphyNight Knight and Yazzie on my brand sparkling new 30 years old MSX.

Yazzie is very nicely presented, though a bit easy and short. Night Knight is more interesting in its level design, getting to be quite hard even when using its level code system (or, if one is running it emulated, savestates).

They are fairly easy to run on any linux system via emulating, e.g. in openMSX.

<3

Got my first MSX in '84. It's still sitting under my desk, along with my MSX-2. I wonder from time to time of I should try some games (like Head over Heels) again or if they're better left in dear memory. I don't know either of the games you mentioned, though.

That's not so strange; they were released in 2019 ^_^

If you have the cassette cable, you can load the rom (for those two games: legal) on your msx from any android phone by using msx2cas.

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Night Knight and Yazzie on my brand sparkling new 30 years old MSX.

Yazzie is very nicely presented, though a bit easy and short. Night Knight is more interesting in its level design, getting to be quite hard even when using its level code system (or, if one is running it emulated, savestates).

They are fairly easy to run on any linux system via emulating, e.g. in openMSX.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't really like Intel, but this doesn't really worry me. I mean,

Quotethey would need some sort of physical and local access

Why are we even expecting any kind of compute-y thing to be secure when someone has physical and local access? That was never a thing when I was young, and I'm fairly convinced that if we think it's a thing now it's mainly wishful thinking.

Think servers, when you use a resource remotely on a server (e.g a HTTP request to a web server, or a SMTP request to a mail server and so forth) you have a form of local access to that server (and if the software have some form of vulnerability as well then you definitely have local access, even if that application is securely sandboxed).

And if you are in a big server room then you have physical access to those servers without necessarily have the kind of physical access that you would have if you stole a laptop from someone.

So these recent vulnerabilities are not so much of a desktop problem as they are a server problem, just like many of the other recent Spectre variants.

Not to mention the virtual computing one can rent over at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and the like. I imagine those sort of systems make heavy use of local security features.

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Quoting: EhvisBut no Dune 2! I suppose it's mostly similar to Dune 2000, but that's not the one I played loads of. :D

Apparently, there is the D2 mod: https://github.com/OpenRA/d2
On a side note (non-openra), another alternative would be Dune Legacy: http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/index.html

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