Quoting: BeamboomIf I am to follow my gut feeling I actually do believe that despite all this chaos, this thing will eventually come to Linux too.

And I'm not the overly optimistic one when it comes to these things. But in this particular case? My money is on "yes".

Yeah, this one sounds like a bit more of a genuine screw up. You know what I think we need? We need to clone Ryan Gordon and some of the other epic porters out there. Seems one of the main reasons the ports end up being canceled is because of bad decisions with third party plugins, or simply the lack of any Linux testing at all. Some I swear just check the box and let it be put up on Steam with zero testing.

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Road Redemption was a blast last night, unfortunately I ended up playing in Windows, seems the Linux version is 'Final Release in review', and there was a bug where it went to my 1600x1200 monitor instead of one of my 2560x1440 screens, which means that when I tried to force it to 1920x1080 over the Steam Link, it cut off the sides, and it wouldn't let me move screens in Gnome (which is how I normally fix such things...

Other than that, the sadly non-Linux game Elite: Dangerous, which I started a mission to make 600k... then realized it's going to take me a mega crap ton of jumps to make it there from where I am... assuming I can ever get a course plotted, exploration time!

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There is a lot of bitter in the comments here. We all know shit can happen. Sounds to me like they released a buggy game, had to hold off on testing the Linux version to patch up their buggy release.

I'd kind of rather have a more bug fixed game than one that is just as crap on Linux as it is on Windows. Then again, I won't buy this until reviews say it's good enough to do so. I have enough games on various platforms that if I could stop working right now and all I did was wake up to play video games for the next 40 years, I still would have things I wouldn't even load...

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Wow, I was literally just playing the beta of this a few days ago thinking "Holy crap, this runs smooth, and has been in development for a LOOOONG time". Lugaru was a fantastic game, I think I bought it way back when it was released.

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Hammerwatch is awesome, and one of my favorite co-op games. Here's to hoping this is just as excellent!

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Quoting: kyoya66Are you guys still fine after this?
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/30/rpcs3.html/amp

Well there is the whole thing about itbeing legal to reverse engineer thongs, which is a huge chunk of emulation. They aren't bypassing DRM, they have to emulate it, right? Or at least do something along the lines of what the dvdcss library and the aacs keys do for dvd/bluray.

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Quoting: elmapul"t's kind of the same case with SteamVR how anyone can make a headset that complies with the API, while Valve themselves don't manufacture the hardware. "
SteamVR = acessory.
Nintendo didnt made all their acessorys, they outsourced some of then, that dont mean they arent into HW business.

Nintendo makes their own hardware platform, that is what I am saying. SteamVR isn't an accessory at all, it is software. The Vive and LG's VR headset both can use SteamVR. Because LG and HTC are in. The hardware business in the same way that Logitech is.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: slaapliedjeTry to play on the nerds who most likely ended up using Linux and loved the 2600.

i dont think they are even trying to target the linux users, we already have our pcs to play, they are more likely targeting Atari fans (if there are any left after the disater of they trying to launch remakes of their classic games)

I am both (Love both old Atari and Linux) and have been following the threads, and I can tell you, there are more positive conversations from Linux users than there is from the Atari community. They mostly think it is a scam like the Coleco Chameleon was.

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That is some insanely good progress. Good thing I haven't bothered getting a third PS3. The first one I got burned out the GPU, second one the blu-ray drive is hit and miss if it wants to load a disk.

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Funny thing is, even back when Atari was really mainstream, they'd done some really quirky things. The 2600 is admittedly legendary, and was synonymous with video games for a long time. Then the 5200 had a fantastic failure rate on the included joysticks (innovative, but not dependable analog controllers!), then the 7800, which was drowned out by Nintendo's success. Though to be fair for that, the Sega Master System (arguably a better machine than the Nintentdo Entertainment System) was also trounced due to Nintendo's exclusivity deals. The tables truly turned when Sony bought out the idea that Psygnosis was working on and created the Playstation. Which oddly also was going to be an addition to the SNES before Nintendo had rejected the idea. It was a weird, Atari had said 'me too' against Sega, Nintendo and newcomer Sony. Them trying to pop in and make a name for themselves when now all we have is Nintendo (smaller, but still in there), Microsoft (Gorilla) and Sony (who have had issues, but still a Gorilla). And what does 'Atari' do? Try to play on the nerds who most likely ended up using Linux and loved the 2600.

All I know is I want a fully ASCII version of Adventure! (okay, you can use ANSI colours).

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