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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe logical choice is ARM-based processors

And then after that the Ultra logical choice is RISC-V opensource license free architecture.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Hamish1999 (my fifth birthday)

None of my business of course, but as I see this...

All those games and systems are not your own good olde times? What made you investigate them so deeply?

Well, Hamish answered it.

I started using Linux in 2004, which means more than a year after I got my first computer at home. Loki and many other games for Linux aren't part of my childhood, too. Hamish is really making something amazing by publishing these articles, and I can learn more about the history of games for Linux.

The commercial games helped many of us keep using this system, and I wish it were a much bigger community. You can see huge communities of retro users constantly talking about games for Windows, Mac, Amiga, and Atari. etc. So many incredible companies sacrifice their time and risk their money to help Linux users play commercial games.

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Thank you for your response.

Quoting: HamishOur federal institutions are obligated to provide services in French, and commercial packaging bears both French and English labels (what I like to call "cereal box French"), but beyond that you would be hard pressed to ever need to learn or use French in Alberta where I live.

That's interesting. I always thought that people learn foreign languages because they want to read books, watch movies, or browse websites in those languages.

I have to admit that I don't know the regional language called Kashubian from Poland, but it's even smaller in population than the Francophone minority in Canada:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language

Quoting: HamishThe MS DOS version of Inner Worlds was made explicitly freeware, and the Linux version has been found and distributed on the Internet Archive, but I do intend to try and get in touch with Sleepless Software at some point to clarify the legal status of this before I would cover the game for an article.

The DOS version is still on Steam, which is weird. I know that some parts of this game aren't freeware, like the editor, even for DOS users. It's great to hear that you plan to do it, and I hope you receive a positive response from Sleepless Software.

Quoting: HamishLoading up the binary distributed from old SunSITE archives displays the following message:
"LinCycles v2.1unreg by Oliver Richman.
(C) Copyright 1996 Five Wheel Horse Software.

This program is Shareware! The trial period is 30 days.
If you like LinCycles, then please register it. For only $5,
we will send you the registered version of LinCycles, plus our
nifty FWH software catalogue! Source code for all programs are
available. (see the read.me file for more information).
PLEASE REGISTER LINCYCLES! ALSO ASK ABOUT OUR REALLY COOL PDSOFTWARE CATALOG!"

We have probably lost the commercial game for Linux, and I didn't find any information about this game on his old website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010104235100/http://www.pathcom.com/~simex/opr/index.html

I also noticed that YiJing was a commercial application rather than a game created by Oliver Richman:

YiJing ::
Thousands of years ago in Ancient China, wise men discovered the oracle
bones. These bones were used to tell the future and gain advice into
the nature of humanity itself. The wisdom and poetry of China, and more!
Featuring chinese (ZW/HZ) support, and many useful command line options.

YiJing 0.5beta binaries .............................. $29.99 CAN.

None of these games or applications is actively developed, which is terrible.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, overall, it kind of is. But French speaking in Canada is really quite geographically concentrated--masses in Quebec which has a large population, a couple of other enclaves like the Acadians, pretty much none everywhere else. That said, in British Columbia where I live, school programs offering French immersion are quite popular . . . but North American language teaching just doesn't seem to be as effective as, say, European language teaching. I don't think most of those French immersion kids end up fluent in French once they've been out of school a few years.

Thank you for sharing it. It's always great to learn something new about a different country. In my view, students decide what they are going to do with the basics of any language taught in schools.

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You can't stay on x86 architecture forever... Whether it's now or in twenty years time, sooner or later they'll need to abandon it in favor of something else. The logical choice is ARM-based processors and if there is a performance hit - which there almost certainly would be - the next question should be "How do we reduce that performance hit". I've never used Apple Silicon, but supposedly they've managed to reduce the performance hit for software running through compatibility layers, so why can't Valve Software do the same?

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Liam Daweit's open again

Huh, I had no idea.

Nor did I... I was like, wait, what?

I wonder if all the old content is back, too? I have some old support questions that the GOL Community kindly answered in the past, and whenever I need them, I need to pull them out of the Wayback Machine.

Jan06/26 - Welcome back to the GamingOnLinux Forum

Answers all your questions...

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Quoting: Jarmer^ agree. Absolutely loved them as a studio. Was a sad day when the closure announcement came along 😫

😲

This is the first I've heard of the closure. Apparently it happened quietly in June 2024. However, according to Wikipedia, two indie developers have spun out of the closure, founded by former employees of Piranha Bytes.

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About a year ago I searched for a way to play unreal Tournament 2004 on linux. Thought i should be abel to buy it on GOG or Epic games store and then run it from Heroic. But no. So i gave up. Then I learned about the Old unreal project and I hade hope that I would be abel play unreal Tournament 2004 on my linux computer soon. Great that it's free. If it had been on GOG a year ago I had been happy to pay 5 euros (50 sek) for it.
Will try this out when I can 🙂

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Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM for the future version of the SteamDeck, pushing down the cost, size and weight.

You DO NOT abandon the architecture that 100% of products and service in your store programmed for unless your company's name is Apple. Translating Windows games into Linux on top of x86 to Arm emulation will not make gaming viable on Deck, contrary it would make it miserable. Sigh...

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The final complication is that the Linux version of Terroid appears to have been freeware ("Download the full game for Linux"), so one could argue that game was not commercial when it comes to our platform. Similar to Maelstrom which started out as shareware for Mac OS in 1992 but was brought to Linux for free in 1995 by Sam Latinga when he was given the source code, and later became fully free and open source. Nevertheless, Terroid seems the best candidate for our list in 1997.

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Quoting: NasraIt seems to have problems with Ubuntu before 25.04 :
https://github.com/OldUnreal/FullGameInstallers/issues/27

SDL3...

Can confirm, to get it running in AWS I had to use a marketplace ami image of ubuntu 25.10 to make it work.

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It's been ages since I last played a Star Trek-game. I remember playing "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" and the sequel "Judgement Rites", then I played "ST TNG: A Final Unity" and finally a really bad "ST DS9" game, then...nothing.

I'll check this one out, it's been too long since I tried something Trek-related.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraThere is not a single mentioning about 30% nor about any value of a cut in the DMA, the DMA is entirely about not abusing your position as a gatekeeper, something that Apple violated by forcing in-app payments to be done by the Apple payment solution _and_ something that they violated by not allowing 3d party app stores to be installed on the iPhone and iPad.

No, it's about Apple as a payment processor because they take 30% (or some other amount). If it wasn't about Apple's percentage then the whole story would be done now - they allow 3rd party payments. But it's not because they still claim a percentage (now 30% - 3% payment processing fee = 27%).

They could take 0% and still violate the DMA so no (IE was included for free in Windows, this still violated their monopoly situation in EU). This is about abusing your position as a gatekeeper and not about some specific cut. Funnily enough you have now changed your tune from 30% to (or some other amount) so it seems like you are in agreement that this is not about the 30%.

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Just like the other social networks (Facebook, X, Instagram, etc...) - most of which I rarely use, but maintain accounts at - I'll keep using Discord for now... But the moment I'm asked to upload my identification or submit biometric data, I'll be closing my accounts.

I'm old enough to remember the world before the Internet, and I won't miss any sleep if I need to go without Discord or any other social network.

Quoting: eggroleOr in the case of a discord alternative, sure there is that spike in searches, but it is already dropping off. I seriously doubt that people will actually move away from discord. Network effects and all that. Even if, and I'm sure someone will try, a good alternative is made, I doubt most people would switch. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.

This.

There's fantastic alternatives to mainstream social networks like X and Instagram... But their userbase is minute compared to the mainstream social networks... I'm skeptical that it would be any different for a Discord alternative.

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Liam Daweit's open again

Huh, I had no idea.

Nor did I... I was like, wait, what?

I wonder if all the old content is back, too? I have some old support questions that the GOL Community kindly answered in the past, and whenever I need them, I need to pull them out of the Wayback Machine.

Quoting: KimyrielleI have zero doubt that the people actually leaving Discord will be a rounding error, and the vast majority of users will continue using it. If people had a spine, our word wouldn't be the place it is.

This.

It seems like the older I get, the lazier people getting. Whether you're talking about the digital world or politics in general, people yell and scream... Then do absolutely nothing.

People will make a lot of noise, then stay on Discord and continue to accept the dystopian policies forced upon them. I know that and Discord absolutely knows that. Anything thinking Discord is actually worried needs to get their heads out of the clouds.

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Getting rid of Snap and embracing Flatpak is a great move... The main reason I refuse to use Ubuntu these days is because of Snaps; I used the operating system for basically the first half of my Linux journey - but Snaps simply can't compete with Flatpak in most ways, and removing Snap / adding Flatpak into Ubuntu is "clunky" at best.

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Quoting: fenglengshun

A new ASUS Armoury driver to bring more ASUS hardware tweaks directly on Linux.

I've been waiting for this, as a ROG Ally owner who uses rog control center. Though, the Decky Desktop GUI is more relevant there since I started to use Ally Center plugin.

Wonder if this will add anything to my laptop? I have an ASUS 'TUF' laptop (basically the budget version of ROG) and I need to use Aurora for the keyboard LEDs, otherwise they don't light up.

I also have an ASUS ZenBook Duo (the laptop with two built-in screens) sitting around unused; but from memory, it hasn't had great support under Linux... It would be nice to see some improvements for that, too.

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Quoting: mr-victoryHave you tried importing reg file of the 1st game into 2nd game's prefix?

I tried, but it does not work.

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Have you tried importing reg file of the 1st game into 2nd game's prefix?

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I think the Ship combat needs work, i am nostly clicking random Buttons and hope it works🤣
The pictures for the characters feel a bit more detailed than the actual models, which feel a bit off as well.
The rest looks like it could be fun.
I already lost a few games because I was too busy collecting stuff and building new rooms and totally forgot the crews morale and left them without beds and with emergency rations for too long😇

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Noice.

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DRM you say? Guess I will just pirate it, lol.

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Quoting: ZlopezLet's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

I wouldn't hold your breath, because the obsession with AI seems to be gathering steam (no pun intended)... Every passing day seems to have some new manufacturer jumping into the pond with both feet.

I think this storage / RAM issue is going to go on for a good while yet, and I'd be awfully surprised if prices come back down again. Further, I think various upcoming hardware - such as the Steam Machine, Stream Frame and the remaining Tenth Generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft - will see significant damage done to their sales.

This is going to hurt consumers and manufacturers alike.

Quoting: syylkIsn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

You're right... But I'd still love to see Valve Software finally make the jump to ARM-based CPUs, largely because ARM-based CPUs are so much better when it comes to power usage, with minimal impact on processing power, as I understand it.

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I gave up believing that there would be a Steam release I finally broke down and bought this like 2 months ago on Battle.net. I have it working on Lutris, but it took a bit of effort. I would have preferred a Steam option if it is more seamless.

I'd be interested in the DLC, but only at a deep discount.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPDid they overhaul the combat by now?

The rest of the game seemed interesting, but holy crap was that combat awful.

I haven't treid the demo yet but i heard that is the case. I hope it gets better because i really want to love this game, i love the series. Boy oh Boy the acotr who played Tom Paris, his voice has certainly changed become much deeper, but its so great to see the orignal actors involved again.

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So according to MobyGames the game Terroid was released for DOS in 1996 but ported to Windows and Linux in 1997, if that counts (which since you counted SimCity, it should). Game was shareware.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/89740/terroid/
http://www.dngames.de/old/terroid.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19990219172316/http://www.spinne.com/x/games/terroid/
https://web.archive.org/web/19970805172714/http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~miha/baller.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJBDfCoye0&t=12s

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere should be a game about submarines and/or scuba diving combat, called Underwatch.

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere should be a game about submarines and/or scuba diving combat, called Underwatch.

and the space version Outerwatch

Please folks, stop this madness, I almost died laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

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Quoting: ben-greenLOL.

I use middle click copy to the already open terminal, so it's one click to copy, then press return. Does that count as one click or do I get marks off for using one keyboard key?

That would have been smarter. 🤣 But also you can press Enter/Return on a virtual keyboard! (Something I only realized as I was writing the post.)

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^ agree. Absolutely loved them as a studio. Was a sad day when the closure announcement came along 😫

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Piranha Bytes games are in a league of their own. IMO, you have to play them with their unique UI and controls or you're not experiencing the games fully.

I started out playing open world RPGs with Morrowind. I toyed a little with Gothic 2 when it first released but found the UI and controls just too perplexing. What can I say? I was used to the Morrowind approach, even if the third-person view was clunky at best.

I finally played through Gothic 1 a few years ago. It was an amazing experience and I didn't find the UI or controls to be all that difficult to adapt to after all.

The experience also helped me to realize that when it came to RPG feature development, including animations and such, Piranha Bytes was way ahead of the game compared to Bethesda. In fact, from what I can see, Bethesda stole most of those ideas from the Piranha Bytes games.

Oblivion's Radiant AI (daily NPC schedules)? Gothic 1 was doing that before Morrowind. Same with better combat animations. Gothic also had better animations for jumping, climbing and just walking up stairs.

Yes, the controls are a bit clunky but that is part of the experience of the game. IMO, Germans liked their RPGs on the challenging side and the nature of the controls adds to the challenge.

The remake is unlikely to run on my hardware. I watched the demo playthrough. It felt more like an interactive movie and less like the classic video game it is based on.

Liam, don't lose the premium experience you will get from playing the original. It won't work on a handheld PC though. You need a physical keyboard.

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Quoting: GustyGhostHonestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

Just to be the contrary one here, personally I am quite happy with the Ubuntu base. I get access to LaunchPad PPAs and numerous Ubuntu repositories. Mint smoothes out everything I dislike about Ubuntu and just makes it better.

LMDE is okay (I look at it from time to time) but I'd have to learn how to navigate in a whole new ecosystem and I'd lose the advantages I feel I get from the Ubuntu ecosystem. For now, Ubuntu is still the commercial baseline for most developers (although, SteamOS and Bazzite seem likely to change that in the future).

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they're currently thinking on "changing that and adopting a longer development cycle". It does make sense, six months is a pretty rapid release schedule, especially for a distribution that doesn't have the vast resources of Canonical or Red Hat.

I have no problem with this. I can barely keep up with the current release schedule as it is. I finally get things stable again and a new release is out...

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