Quoting: axredneck

Quoting: kokoko3kSomething pretty flat, i'd say.
Luckilly for my taste, oxygen is still available and there are other icon themes out there!

You can also try QtCurve or Kvantum.

I gave kvantum a shot in the past, maybe i can see it again how it performs.
I'd prefer qtcurve, but as far as i know the visual configuration tools are no more, so it is a bit hard to craft a new theme.
In the kde4 era i've had a lot of fun making themes with it :)
https://store.kde.org/p/1005548

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Something pretty flat, i'd say.
Luckilly for my taste, oxygen is still available and there are other icon themes out there!

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I'm really a noob on everything regarding vr.
Does that means i can use a cardboard viewer and a smartphone as a cheap interface to virtual reality with steam games?
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-update-passing-conformance-android-support-and-more.html

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Doing multiple local backup of my gmail accounts via thunderbird right now...

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Mirv, i'm not blaming software developers, i'm not even speaking of games alone.
I'm saying that we can observe a system that rewards them to use inefficient tools built on inefficient tools.
It is true what you say: "it's just not worth the time and effort."
Still, i find it so unappealing, and sad.

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It is that the numbers are so big that i think the big part of the resources (maybe not vram) are sacrified in the name of the developers lazyness (abstraction layers).

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Quoting: GuestOlder games for older hardware that didn't vary, aimed at 640x480 at best, many with a 25fps target (hooked up to a tv rather than a dedicated monitor), 16bit graphics, limited or absolutely no networking, far more simplified audio, no multitasking worries, and with a much higher barrier to development entry compared to today (both economically and for required technical knowledge).

Still, they were a lot of fun.

Quoting: GuestJust bear that in mind when comparing against modern games.

Let's take Ballsy! vs Sensible soccer.

GPU:
* Ballsy: Any modern GPU
* SS: Amiga OCS blitter was capable of almost 1000k pixel per second, no 3D, the copper and that was it.
* Ratio: Almost a number bigger as you want

HD space:
* Ballsy: 200MB of Storage
* SS: 880KB of Storage
* Ratio: 225X

RAM:
* Ballsy: 512 MB of RAM
* SS: 512KB of RAM
* Ratio: 1000X

CPU:
* SS: 68000@7mhz: something around 2.5 MIPS
* Ballsy: 64bit processor... Intel Core2 Duo is over 20k MIPS
* Ratio: around 8000x

And today if you read the system requirements for Ballsy, you can even easilly say "Wow, this game is very light!"

...it is a bit too much for me to even consider to justify.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: kokoko3kWell judging from what i see, SWOS feels so much better...
I just played today via FS-UAE and my brand new quickshot 2 turbo hooked via an adaptor to the usb port ^_^
Also there is this: https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/swos-2020
but it seems Windows and Amiga only.

Yeah it's a bit strange that a game from 2021 with all the advanced in cpu+gpu power still is more sluggish than a game from 1992 running on a 14Mhz machine with 2MB RAM...

I think Sensible soccer required just 7mhz and 512kb of ram when running from the floppy drive :)
Playing with word meanings, 'strange' is not right unfortunately, quite the opposite, indeed.
It is fairly typical in the whole computer and operating systems development history started when pc-ibm took over the amiga and the "let's optimize software that can run on actual hardware" paradigm switched to "You've to buy new hardware to run my software"...
So that today, to read a bunch of kilobytes of text out of the web before growing old, you need a bunch of gigaherts and a bunch of gigabytes of ram ^.^.
Sadly, not strange at all :/

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Quoting: qgnoxPortugal goal was in offside position, the tackle to croatian player looks like from SpeedBall 2...

I remember a game called Striker that you had to keep pressing one of the directional keys to give an effect to the ball, my older brother had to replace the keyboard after some days playing ...

It was called the aftertouch, pretty much all of the soccer games of the 80/90 era, starting from dino dini's kick off (i think), had it.
Thanks for bringing striker to my memories, nice game, indeed.

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Well judging from what i see, SWOS feels so much better...
I just played today via FS-UAE and my brand new quickshot 2 turbo hooked via an adaptor to the usb port ^_^
Also there is this: https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/swos-2020
but it seems Windows and Amiga only.

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