The itch app has a new major version, still as slick as ever
If you're a fan of the games store itch like me, you may want to know about the latest update to their open source client.
Category: Open Source
A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller
SC Controller is really awesome! It's a standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller. It was pointed out to me that it has a new gestures feature and I was asked to do a video. Here's a quick look at this fun new feature.
The Wine development release 1.9.23 is now available
The Wine team released yesterday another development release of their software. Version 1.9.23 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.
Mesa 13.0.1 RC released, bug fixes and up to 30% performance increase in the Intel Vulkan driver
Not long after the big Mesa 13 release, we have a release candidate ready for a point release. It's an interesting one too, as it will include a performance improvement to the Intel Vulkan driver, as well as assorted bug fixes.
0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses released, check out this beautiful open source strategy game
0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses is the latest and greatest open source real time strategy game, and probably one of the most high quality open source games around.
'VCMI' is an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Fans of the classics may be interested to know about 'VCMI', an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
Mesa 13 released, featuring OpenGL 4.5 for all vendors and AMD gains Vulkan
This release is a bit massive when it comes to actually looking at the features. Everything we have been hyped about recently is now in the stable release.
Marek has sent in another Mesa commit to help improve OpenGL performance, using threading
Marek, the well known contributor to Mesa has been working on some form of Mesa OpenGL threading, and his test showed a 70% improvement for Borderlands 2.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.22 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.22 has many small changes including 25 bugfixes.
Looks like Mesa has hit OpenGL 4.5 for the open source Nvidia 'nvc0' driver
It looks like in the last few days the 'nvc0' driver for Nvidia cards in Mesa has hit OpenGL 4.5 compatibility, joining Intel and AMD.
Widelands, the open source settlers-like real-time strategy game is preparing for a new major release
Oh boy, I used to absolutely adore Settlers when I was younger on my Amiga! Widelands is an open source strategy game much like the original, and a new release is on the way.
The awesome open source RTS engine 'OpenRA' has a new release, with more original Command & Conquer missions
I do love 'OpenRA', especially fun when we did our online Linux tournament. The new release is really great too, with it implementing more of the single-player missions from the original Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.21 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.21 has many small changes including 18 bugfixes.
Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21
It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.
Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel
As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.
Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver
The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.
The Wine Stable Release 1.8.5 Is Now Available
The Wine team released yesterday sixth stable release of 1.8 branch of Wine. Version 1.8.5 has many small changes including 58 bugfixes.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' has been merged into Mesa
Something I entirely missed when writing about Mesa and OpenGL, is that the open source Vulkan driver "radv" has been merged into Mesa.
AMD's radeonsi driver is really close to having full OpenGL 4.4 support, with OpenGL 4.5 already done
The open source OpenGL driver AMD radeonsi is now extremely close to having full OpenGL 4.4 support, and OpenGL 4.5 is now complete.
The Dolphin emulator for GameCube & Wii games merges in Vulkan support
This is awesome, Dolphin the big GameCube & Wii emulator has now merged in the code for official Vulkan support.
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