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Quoting: slaapliedjeAh! Thanks. Makes sense. So then... one could play the first one native on the Amiga, and the second one via ScummVM. (And yes I realize ScummVM requires a fairly beefy Amiga, but I have a few).

I sold my slightly broken Amiga500 in the mid 90s, shortly after getting my first PC. Shouldn't have done that.
Emulation to the resuce!

It's funny, I didn't have much time with the Amiga in the 90s. A friend had an A500, and then an A1200. My older brother bought his friend's A500, and I got a bit of a play with it, but I think the floppy drive died or something... can't recall what happened to it (my asshole older brother likely ended up with it, even though he's a turd sandwich and likely trashed it). But now I own two A500++ (one in a checkmate 1500 case with a Vampire V4, and another with an ACA530 in it's original case. Also two A4000s, one that is in a tower with video toaster and 060, and another in the desktop case with a Cyberstorm PPC that I currently need to put back together :P. Ha, I also have a few macs with MorphOS on it.

I love AmigaOS, it's a nice fun thing to play with that most other OSs haven't done things similar.

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Quoting: g000hAnyone want to go halfsies? I already own Control, Call of Sea, Hellblade. But I'm vaguely interested in the other half of the bundle.

Ha, I usually buy the bundle and give away extra keys to my steam friends (though this is if my brother already has them).

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Quoting: scaineWorth it, hugely, for the first two games alone. Control is superb and Hellblade's atmosphere is incredible. Praey looks great (a Shadow of the Collosus tribute) and both Batora and Dreamscaper have a Grim Dawn vibe, but single player. I've no interest in Syberia (point'n'click), but I've been meaning to pick up Sable for months now. Call of the Sea looks like a nice wee bonus - a first-person puzzler.

Might have to pick this up, even though I already own the two main stars.

Played a bit of Hellblade in VR... talk about creepy!!

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Quoting: gbudnyI didn't know that they didn't do any updates to run Amix on A4000.

Yeah, I believe the requirements are an 030 or 040, SCSI, and doesn't work on AGA machines.

Quoting: gbudnyCan the Atari computer dual-boots Mint and Atari System V UNIX?

I would suppose it'd depend on how you partitioned your drives as long as you use one of the boot loaders / or hard drive drivers that allow a dual boot. Though I think I'd just use microSD cards to switch between them :)

Quoting: gbudnyIt starts to look similar to the installation process of Nvidia drivers on Debian Sarge.

Yeah, it was very similar to that before the nvidia drivers were packaged.

Quoting: gbudnyA/UX could run the software for Mac, which is awesome. Unfortunately, the last version of A/UX didn't contain any updates for System Software 7. In this case, it will probably run only early applications for System Software 7. It's still the only classic Unix that can run many popular games and applications from that period. We don't have to use DOS.

IRIX was cool for someone interested in running some popular applications. On the other hand, the prices of these computers are scary.

Yeah, while I don't have an A/UX system, I do own an SGI Octane! IRIX on that thing is rather snappy, surprisingly. I need to do a fresh install on it with the latest version though... Holy crap is that a hefty box!

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Quoting: gbudnySometimes, it's much easier to get the cool stuff if you live much closer to the U.S.A.

Unless you're interested in 16 bit era computers. Unless it's Apple related, most of the stuff is over in Europe. Can't tell you how many times I've had to order stuff from UK, Ireland, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Germany, etc.

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Quoting: HamishThanks for the correction, I did not know about the Parhelia using a binary blob. I guess Matrox wanted to keep with the times, which in the early to mid 2000s, was whatever Team Green was doing.

To be fair to Matrox, they had some hardware features that no one else did at the time, so keeping the source closed made sense in the 'protect our IP' sort of way. I think nvidia keeps their stuff binary just out of habit at this point, or at least I think they should open the parts of their drivers for older cards that aren't their latest cutting edge version of stuff.

Kind of shocked that back in the day when Matrox got out of the Gaming GPU business, Intel or someone didn't try to buy up their tech. Matrox still happily is making multi-display cards, and I believe one of their latest iterations is nvidia based.

Here it is; https://www.matrox.com/en/video/media/press-releases/matrox-develop-embedded-graphics-cards-nvidia-next-generation-video-walls

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Quoting: HamishI don't think there were any closed drivers from Matrox, nor was there much need for them as Mesa was in its own first golden age at the time. Only Nvidia and for a period ATI embraced binary blob drivers for Linux, which set the free graphics stack back years in the mid to late 2000s. Things are so much better again now at least with AMD and Intel.

They do ship a modified version including their own Matrox HAL library it seems though:
https://www.matrox.com/de/video/apps/drivers/graphics/download?id=143

Right, cards before the Parhelia had all the drivers open source, with a binary blob for some specific thing (I want to say hardware accelerated video decoder?) As I stated above, they had an installer for the Parhelia drivers, and they simply needed build-essentials and the linux-headers package to be installed in Debian based distributions.

Back in the day, I would use Linux and play Unreal Tournament 2004 on three 21" CRTs... it was kind of impractical as you can imagine, I'd have to lean way back to see the peripheral, but holy crap was that impressive at the time.

Sadly their hardware implementation lacked something to support Doom 3 correctly, and that ultimately killed the card (ironic as many people claim Doom, and it's lack of it on the Amiga platform is what killed the Amiga.)

http://www.murc.ws/showthread.php?44575-Parhelia-on-Linux&highlight=linux

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyhow, love this series, makes me want to try on one of the old PCs I built recently.

I hope that more users start to build old PCs to play games for Linux.

I saw the AGP graphic cards like GeForce 7950 GT 512 MB or even 8400 GS 512 MB. My GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB isn't terrible. However, I like to see some room for the performance improvements in some games.

I have several Marvel G400TV cards, I am planning on going a different route with productivity on old PCs. Granted originally I wasn't thinking of using Linux...

But now that I think about it, I may very well do so.
Equipment list I'm going to be using to produce videos (when I get around to it)
Amiga 4000 Video Toaster (For old school effects)
I have two cameras that can do digital / analog for recording.
Marvel G400TV can be used for capturing some stuff (may use OBS or something and toying with doing live videos maybe?)
M1 Macbook for any post processing stuff.

For music/audio, I have an Atari Falcon+Cubase, and Logic Pro on the mac.

So my plans are really a mix of old tech+modern tech. The work flow is going to be really wacky, but fun I think.

It looks like the interesting way of combining different computers and operating systems.

I never had a chance to use Matrox cards Linux. I watched somewhere it was tricky to install drivers back then. In my opinion, Matrox Parhelia still looks like a nice alternative for the old PCs.

Did you try to run Amix on Amiga 4000?

I know there was a version Unix for Atari:

http://www.atariunix.com/

AMIX won't run on an A4000, it requires an A2000-A3000. NetBSD / Linux will run on the 4000, but I haven't tried it there yet. I was going to try NetBSD on my Atari TT030, (which is also where the Atari SysV Unix would need to be ran) but then I accidentally wrote the tiny image over a 3tb drive of data... so got distracted restoring that! (always make sure you're writing to the right device!!)

Ha, if I could find the old posts from MURC (Matrox users resource center) I wrote the howtos for installing the Parhelia drivers in Debian. :P Pretty much just required build-essentials and linux-headers-`uname -r`. Pre-Parhelia cards pretty much worked right out of the box.

I'd love to get a hold of an A3000 to run AMIX on though, looks sweet. Though out of all that era of computers, the best version of Unix was probably A/UX, as Apple integrated it with MacOS so you could run mac software and Unix stuff.

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Quoting: gbudny

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyhow, love this series, makes me want to try on one of the old PCs I built recently.

I hope that more users start to build old PCs to play games for Linux.

I saw the AGP graphic cards like GeForce 7950 GT 512 MB or even 8400 GS 512 MB. My GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB isn't terrible. However, I like to see some room for the performance improvements in some games.

I have several Marvel G400TV cards, I am planning on going a different route with productivity on old PCs. Granted originally I wasn't thinking of using Linux...

But now that I think about it, I may very well do so.
Equipment list I'm going to be using to produce videos (when I get around to it)
Amiga 4000 Video Toaster (For old school effects)
I have two cameras that can do digital / analog for recording.
Marvel G400TV can be used for capturing some stuff (may use OBS or something and toying with doing live videos maybe?)
M1 Macbook for any post processing stuff.

For music/audio, I have an Atari Falcon+Cubase, and Logic Pro on the mac.

So my plans are really a mix of old tech+modern tech. The work flow is going to be really wacky, but fun I think.

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Quoting: HamishI need to switch my focus to the farm as I will be calving and lambing before long.

Isn't that something the cows and sheep should do?

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Says a dude named TheSHEEP. Hahaha

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