Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: slaapliedje...that'd be 640x800 resolution for each player.

Back when I was a kid, we got 320x240 if we were LUCKY, and we loved it! All the pixels were the size of your fist, but we didn't know any better. We just thought the world looked chunky.

Ha, 160x100 I think is roughly what the 2600 could do? Though there isn't really a defined capability of it.

320x200@16 is what the Atari ST could do... if I recall, the 'hi-res' mode of the Atari800 was 320x192!
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275575-atari-graphics-modes-reference-chart/

Funny enough, I was recently looking through the info on the Dark Forces port to the Amiga, it ran at 320x200 as well.

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistSplit screen is disabled on Deck? Hopefully it won't be disabled on the Linux desktop as well. Not being able to play split screen on my desktop would suck.

Hopefully it's just a matter of detecting 1280x800 and saying 'nope, not gonna happen.'. ha, that'd be 640x800 resolution for each player... Unless split the other way, 1280x400... oof.

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I finally switched to AMD over the weekend. Here are the reasons why.
1) Gnome-Web would literally crash almost every single page. Apparently Redhat is refusing to fix the bug, and it IS an nvidia driver issue.
2) found out switching to AMD also fixed my issue with Firefox not loading playstation.com's cart! How weird is that. It would just hang in firefox, (hence why I was trying gnome-web in the first place).
3) instantly the Wayland sessions are now available in GDM on Debian Sid.

Weird how using the nvidia drivers can cause such odd issues. (The Wayland one is kind of obvious, I've had it available / working in other distributions, but apparently Debian set something that I haven't been able to find to not list it with nvidia driver).

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Quoting: Nic264

Quoting: ElectricPrismIsn't Ubisoft the one where if you don't login for a few months they delete your purchases?

No and no:
* After 4 years of inactivity they send a notice to give you 30 days to cancel the deletion.
* If and only if you've got no game to loose in the process.

Ha, and if you have an Ubisoft game in Steam, it kicks off the launcher then the game, dumb yes, but saves you from not logging in for 4 years. :P

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Gonna have to pick this one up on the VCS. Where Native Linux games is the name of the game!

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What it comes down to is... more indie studios need to spawn up and make games for old platforms as well as new. Otherwise we are going to end up like most other industries have, where there are really only 3 or 4 big corporations that own all of the pie.

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Quoting: boltronicsI miss the days of my N900. I hate that Microsoft screwed that up... but it was Nokia's choice to go along with it.

Loved the N900... and with the N9, you could really see where the platform was going and was going to be amazing... Microsoft is always ruining things I enjoy...

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: slaapliedjeOne thing all of the docks are missing is a USB-C Out with display port. This way uou can vave the NReal Air plugged in without an adapter.

HDMI. Absolutely Proprietary.

Right... the NReal Air uses USB-C, but that means you can't have the Steam Deck being powered while using it. If you want power, you have to use the HDMI battery adapter, since HDMI doesn't send a power line... so you are either running out of power on the HDMI adapter, or running out of power on the Steam Deck...

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One thing all of the docks are missing is a USB-C Out with display port. This way uou can vave the NReal Air plugged in without an adapter.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: boltronics

Quoting: ShabbyXSo why go through the trouble? Because it's *users* microsoft is buying.

A agree, at least to a point. It's not the only reason, since Activition gave them a very strong incentive.

Activision was threatening to pull CoD from Xbox unless they were cut a better deal. MS would have been getting a worse deal than Sony for the same rights because they have a worse bargaining position, being 3rd place in the console war. By buying Activision, they no longer need to worry about competing on uneven ground, and turn a great disadvantage into an advantage going forward.

Anyway, that's just another aspect to it, although a smaller point in the grand scheme of things (as I'll point out in a moment).

Quoting: ShabbyXAnd with users microsoft can keep its other businesses alive. More users on microsoft platforms == fewer users on other platforms == worse software support for other platforms.

This is incorrect.

In the end, the primary reason Microsoft purchased Activision was not because of CoD. It wasn't even about cloud gaming.

It was primarily about King.

Microsoft is desperate to compete in the mobile space, which dwarfs all of console gaming in potential revenue. These mobile games will not be on fewer platforms. Definitely not. If anything, they'll be on more platforms than ever.

As for CoD, it's is still going to be on PlayStation. It's going to end up being basically everywhere. Sure, this and the other games in the Blizzard/Activision catalogue will help GamePass (and many of the smaller console/PC games will likely remain exclusive to MS and Steam, no argument there), but it hardly means that there will be fewer users on other platforms.

Why is this? Did you watch the Kinda Funny interview? Phil Spencer himself said that Microsoft could release the best games possible on Xbox today, and it still won't stop people buying a PlayStation. At best, people might play games from both ecosystems. PlayStation is too far ahead when it comes to the average gamer's digital library, and unless Sony make some really anti-consumer moves that drive people away (similar to what MS tried to do in the previous console generation), it's going to take a long time before we see that change.

You mention mobile gaming being so huge... ha, the only way I could ever see myself getting into mobile gaming is if Valve makes a phone that runs SteamOS that can physically morph into a Z Fold style phone. We may need Nanites or something... granted, then we'll probably have to go to war with them like in Stargate SG-1...

You and I may not like it, and mobile games may generally be garbage, but mobile gaming *is* huge, much bigger than desktop and console gaming (in terms of revenue).

Not saying I'm agreeing with boltronics on it being the reason though.

The one thing I could see myself being happy playing around on if it could be tweaked to work would be computer emulators on my Z Fold phone. Fold it so that it's in an L shape and have the keyboard on one side, and the screen on the other... would be fantastic! I thought about this after getting it and... ended up buying a 3DS for that!

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