They answered about DRM free Linux version:

QuoteRed Baron will be available on our website www.redbarongame.com, DRM free, with Linux support (as well as SteamOS and Windows).

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madottergames/red-baron/posts/642076?cursor=4857896#comment-4857895

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Another issues there - original Bard's Tale games (1, 2 and 3) which are packaged with the game are not starting for me. I get errors like:

overflow_sz:ffe84a1d, pos:312e
overflow_sz:ffe84928, pos:3130
...parse_option: line 11, 0x87d3700,0x87d3700 = g_joystick_type = 0 (g_joystick_type = 0) len:19
...parse_option: line 12, 0x87d3700,0x87d3700 = g_cfg_rom_path = res/sys/bttricode (g_cfg_rom_path = res/sys/bttricode) len:34
Read: 131072 bytes of ROM
Open card ROM file bards_tale/diskII.prom failed: -1 err:2
Terminated

Those are Apple IIgs releases which are in password protected zip archives - iibt1.bin, iibt2.bin and iibt3.bin. But when you try to run them from within the main game, files are unpacked in ~/.local/share/BardTale/data

Is there some easy to use emulator for Apple IIgs?

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For those who have problems with cutscenes not playing in Bard's Tale. That's because the game looks for Theora (OGV) videos, while HB package ships with MP4 (weird). So convert videos first (in 'movies' subdir of the installation of Bard's Tale):
for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i $file -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 9 -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 5 ${file%%.*}.ogv; done

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Lot's of work that Valve does is good, but I still don't use Steam because of principal dislike to any DRM. So, it's good when developers take care of releasing games DRM free, and not just "on Steam". Amongst Linux crowd this subject is more important in general, and there are quite a lot of Linux gamers who don't use Steam and prefer DRM free releases.

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Well, what do you know? Right after I sent a question to inXile whether they sell Bard's Tale outside Steam, it appeared in the current Humble Bundle, DRM free! Hopefully they'll make it available going forward through the Humble Store as well.

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How do I get those updates if I got the game from the Humble Bundle? The version listed there is from 2013-08-31.

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Great, is it available outside Steam for Linux? I got it on GOG, but Windows version has severe bugs with Wine and is unplayable. I'd surely buy the Linux version DRM free, if they sell it somewhere.

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For those unaware, it's available DRM free in the Humble Store.

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Nothing to worry except that most of those probably will require Steam to run. But in general I hope it will boost DRM free Linux gaming in result as well.

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Quoting: abelthorneYeah, it's a bit misleading but I guess that if you have Windows or MacOS games you already have a PC with Windows or a Mac.

No Mac OSX, but I have quite a lot of Windows games and play them in Wine :) I'm not using any Windows computer at home for a while already.

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