QuoteOpenGL is considered an ageing graphics API, with buggy and slow drivers

The drivers aren't buggy nor slow on Linux or Nvidia+Windows.
Tha makes me think that their claimings about speed increases by switching to Vulkan are related to Windows+Intel.

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Updates are dangerous.
Dumb math suggests me that using an officially unsupported platform too is dangerous^2.

Valve should really rethink about its strategy of forced updated.

Imho.

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I don't play it anymore, but standing ovation!

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Quoting: PenglingIt's great to see more of this, and I do hope that they branch out and cover some of Toaplan's non-shooter content as well - I'm still hoping for Snow Bros. to show up (either the original, or the recent remake Snow Bros. Special), especially now that a remake of Snow Bros. 2 has been confirmed for Steam, with more info due at the Tokyo Game Show later this month.

Also, that CRT filter looks quite good! I'm not usually a fan of those (though I'm forced to use them for some games in the Capcom Arcade Stadium titles, since those don't allow a 1:1 display for CPS1/2 games, and they therefore look awful without adding a filter), but this one looks pretty authentic. (I owned a JAMMA cabinet at one point, so wrong-looking arcade CRT filters bother me a bit. Not an experience I would recommend, by the way - they're noisy things and they take up SO much space.)

Quoting: scaineHardly anyone knows about Slap Fight

I've never played it (I still need to pick up these Toaplan collections ), but we must be some of the few who do know it!

I own a real cab, with a real crt with a real chewing-gum stuck on it since decades, and you can put money in it, it works!
AdvMame over an old amd athon takes care of everthing.

By the way, shaders these days really shines; the one in this article is just "meh" and the deck screen resolution is just not enough, but if you try retroarch ones, even on 1080p with a good black level and a decent gamut, you will understand why i'm not powering the real thing anymore.
https://forums.libretro.com/t/please-show-off-what-crt-shaders-can-do/19193
I've made my part too :)
https://forums.libretro.com/t/koko-aio-shader-discussions-and-updates/38455

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Are the relative performance so good even on Desktop or is there something particular regarding Steam Deck?

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: kokoko3kI wonder how many "Linux Deck" users would use Linux outside of the Deck.

Probably not as many at the start, but when I've looked at the Steam Deck reddit, there were many people that said that they were scared at first and then it was easier than they expected. That is exactly what we need. There is a lot of false knowledge and fear spread around by MS and lets call them influencers.

I really hope you're right, but still very much afraid not!

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I wonder how many "Linux Deck" users would use Linux outside of the Deck.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kokoko3kI strongly trust in the power of the final user

Oh, hey everyone, a time traveller from the early internet!

Why just the internet.

"Be the change you want to see in the world", altough not the exact words, the base concept stays still.

The early internet was a very strong bastion of the idea that independent individual choices all by themselves could create and defend an excellent space, albeit based on the idea that the very design of the internet itself gave great power to that ideal. That turned out not to be the case; the internet now is dominated by a few small players, and content is dominated by push (by those dominant players and their algorithms) rather than pull from individual internet denizens. Pull hasn't disappeared, but its impact has shrunk a great deal, and it gets shaped a whole lot. The final user has turned out not to have that much power compared to the corporate dollar.

In general, the idea that just individually behaving well can create change is overblown. And in fact, it has often been pushed by large corporations precisely because they are aware it will not work; so they invented individual "carbon footprints" to divert people's attention away from regulation or creation of different infrastructure, emphasize recycling plastic so people won't think about mandating alternatives to plastic, and in general emphasize individual action as consumers so people won't think about political action as citizens.

So there has to be a misunderstanding.
My thinking is that If we look at the past, we deserve what we have today, as a collectivity made of individual choices converging under the influence of some big players.

Projecting the past will certainly paint a dark future, but i'm not pointing my finger to google or microsoft, my life is full of out of ordinary choices and full of consequent sentences like

"why do you do that, it is pointless".

I know that is pointless, because the rest of the users have the power to take what I think is the wrong path, but this has not to stop others to take different paths, which is sadly exactly what is happening, flatness.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kokoko3kI strongly trust in the power of the final user

Oh, hey everyone, a time traveller from the early internet!

Why just the internet.

"Be the change you want to see in the world", altough not the exact words, the base concept stays still.

It is too easy to point the finger when all is almost irreparably wasted.

To clarify more, "I strongly trust in the power of the final user" does not imply any positive thing.

At all.

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I strongly trust in the power of the final user, so: "like it or not" has no meaning to me.
If the AI will continue to produce such abominations, is because the final user likes them.

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