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Quoting: shnullhm i been wondering that about IBM too, they do even research into quantum computing which definitely costs the billions and doesnt earn one cent there can be only one answer : "old nazi gold" lol ...

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Intv_MiSTer

Consumers have never been a priority of IBM, but that doesn't make them small.
Their last revenue report cited 62.07B.
Things that make them valuable:
They're one of the oldest trusted defense contractor of the USA military. This means in part that they can actually supply stuff for building military aircraft(Kind of old NAZI gold. Same conflict different side.)
They're the owners of SPSS(the go to statistics statistics program of many universities)
Lots of players in the financial industry are locked into their ecosystem, since 1970.
They own Red Hat.

Yeah, IBM doesn't give a crap about us lowly peasants when they can sell their POWER architecture at a premium, LPAR out their OS/400 stuff on said hardware, and are still used in financial institutions, since their stuff are amazing at crunching numbers.

They gave the bird to all the Enterprise Linux users when they bought Red Hat and called us all leeches...

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Quoting: pbMeh, I preferred ColecoVision anyway.

I own an Adam with a FujiNet. Best way to play ColecoVision games! Though their controllers still stink!

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: kokoko3kSo, let me understand.

I've this game on native Linux on steam and after the update i will not have the possibility to download it anymore?

Does this feel right to anyone?

Welcome to the state of gaming in 2024........ Over priced DLC........ Microtransactions out the warzoo..... Out of control in game gambling........ Gaming as a service....... Changing account requirements after purchase........ And now...... Changing OS support after purchase....... What a time to be a live......

Quoting: jams3223I am blacklisting this studio, and I'll never buy a game from them.

Targem Games has made...... The list...... I will do doing the same.......

This is Valve enforcing game updates vis Steam.
Blaze Rush is a lightweight title that works on an old netbook which is unable to run Vulkan, unable to run Proton via dxvk, I don't want even imagine what would happen via wined3d.

They are reducing my possibility to play it, and I've paid for it.

Instead, people pirating games are FREE from all of that, really, this time shame on you, Valve.

Steam supports beta branches, which are often used to keep around old versions before disruptive changes. That publisher should still take the responsibility and face demands for refunds though.

Think this option is on the developers though, right?

The game is developed by Russians, maybe they are being forced to add in a rootkit, which won't work on Linux and mac, so they're just ditching those platforms?

Nah, any government enforced rootkit will support Linux and Mac, unless it is target specific.
Basically all journalists, rich businessmen and activists use Mac.
Basically all valuable servers run Linux.
The low level Iphone jailbreak bugs mostly come from discovered government malware.
Against Linux source code poisoning is popular.
"Write your first rootkit" is a training exercise for mediocre kernel developers.
Just, because ransomware writers don't have standards and are willing to settle for Windows, because it has the less capable admins and has the security of an open door doesn't mean governments don't.
Edit:
In this rant I'm assuming they can get super user permissions from their users, but with the "anti-cheat" claim for a native game this could work.

We're talking gaming here, right? There isn't any government enforced rootkits here... unless you're buying games from CCP sponsored companies... of course they're target specific.
I don't know about journalists and rich businessmen using macs. I'm sure most activists do. The first two likely use a mix of Linux/mac/Windows. A lot of proper journalists are going to be stuck on MS or be more about openness of Linux. 'Creative' types are likely to be using Macs. Not game players though.
Ha, all 'useful' servers are running some form of *nix at this point, with few exceptions running Windows.
Ha, no clue where you're getting the iphone Jailbreaks from, they're just vulnerabilities in Apple's somewhat shitty software.
Source code poisoning... has happened like once or twice ever... at least that has been found/noticed. It is far from 'popular'.
Haha, I wonder where you find info on writing your own rootkit, there have literally only been a small few of those ever found in the wild.
There aren't even that many ransomware writers. There is literally a black market where people buy said things.

I actually work 'in the industry' to know most of these things, so there is that...

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If we were truly in bizarro world, the next headline we'll see is 'Atari has purchased Hyperion'.

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Quoting: basedKnowing their history, this made me lmao, buying Coleco next?

I sure hope so. My Adam needs some new games. :P

More seriously though, this is awesome, since that will hopefully translate into the Intellivision games being released on teh Atari VCS 800, like they've been churning out 2600/7800 releases for it. Can I do that via emulation? Sure... but it's just so nice and convenient to just fire up the VCS and play some games for a bit. Played some Montezuma's revenge the other day. Yup, verified I still suck at it.

Atari is also the only one, other than Valve, that has full on embraced Linux as a gaming OS.

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Quoting: Mambo

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: kokoko3kSo, let me understand.

I've this game on native Linux on steam and after the update i will not have the possibility to download it anymore?

Does this feel right to anyone?

Welcome to the state of gaming in 2024........ Over priced DLC........ Microtransactions out the warzoo..... Out of control in game gambling........ Gaming as a service....... Changing account requirements after purchase........ And now...... Changing OS support after purchase....... What a time to be a live......

Quoting: jams3223I am blacklisting this studio, and I'll never buy a game from them.

Targem Games has made...... The list...... I will do doing the same.......

This is Valve enforcing game updates vis Steam.
Blaze Rush is a lightweight title that works on an old netbook which is unable to run Vulkan, unable to run Proton via dxvk, I don't want even imagine what would happen via wined3d.

They are reducing my possibility to play it, and I've paid for it.

Instead, people pirating games are FREE from all of that, really, this time shame on you, Valve.

Steam supports beta branches, which are often used to keep around old versions before disruptive changes. That publisher should still take the responsibility and face demands for refunds though.

Think this option is on the developers though, right?

The game is developed by Russians, maybe they are being forced to add in a rootkit, which won't work on Linux and mac, so they're just ditching those platforms?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThey kind of sound almost like they haven't even heard of Proton. And I mean, with ignorance levels like that it's maybe not a big surprise if they're not capable of maintaining ports.

Ha, something tells me it is likely more like 'updated version paid for by Microsoft to have a port for xbox, and let's make it exclusive to Windows too.'

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Did they get bought by Microsoft or something? That makes little sense to update the game to just remove 'features'. Like especially the SteamVR one is head scratching.

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Quoting: EduAAAThis game has the same flaw The Witcher 3 has, if you like to explore and do everyquest you get overleveled... even open world games that tell a story need to care about that, in the end I guess those players that skip the intro, and go forward without reeding because that's too much effort apparently, play the best way.

That sounds like a definite design flaw. It used to be that you'd do the side quests so that you were high enough level to do the main quests. Kind of the whole incentive to do them in the first place. Or, even to get an extra magic item, or potion, etc. One of these days, I should play Witcher 3...I got stuck on 2.

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Are GOG games working a bit better through Heroic Game Launcher over Lutris? Lutris seems to be acting up on my computer (though that could just be from a bunch of cruftiness that one of these days I should clean up on my system).

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