dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release
DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.
Category: Open Source
RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes
The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.
Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta
Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.
You can now use the Discord Overlay on Linux thanks to a new community project
Once again the developer community is picking up the slack where the official stuff isn't working on Linux. This time it's the turn of the Discord Overlay.
Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more
MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.
Endless Sky, a free and open source space trading & combat game expands with a new update
Endless Sky, a free and open source classic 2D space game continues expanding with the first stable release in quite some time.
Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release
OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.
FNA 20.05 (XNA4 reimplementation) is out with a brand new 3D graphics library 'FNA3D'
Ethan Lee, porter of many games to Linux (and macOS) and the creator of the XNA4 reimplementation FNA today announced the release of FNA 20.05 and a brand new 3D graphics library FNA3D.
Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR
Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.
If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4
Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.
Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.
Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released
The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.
Free first-person shooter 'Tomatenquark' releasing soon based on Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Coming soon to Steam Early Access, Tomatenquark is another attempt to revive a classic free and open source first-person shooter.
Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store
While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.
Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up
OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.
Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support
Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.
Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs
Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.
The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override
Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.
Linux game launcher 'GameHub' has a brand new release, with game tweaking support
GameHub is another game launcher available for Linux, one we've talked briefly about before, and it just recently had quite a nice looking update.
FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years
Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.
- Tomb Raider I and Tomb Raider II open source re-implementations updated with new graphics options
- GE-Proton 10-14 brings lots of fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS
- KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing
- Bottles devs give more info on their funding from NLnet
- Half-Life: Cross Product Multiplayer gets a Steam release
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