Quoting: GuppyA long time ago I used some software called JACK that would allow me to create custom audio pipes to either send other programs or to specific output channels on my "Sound Blaster Live!".

Pulseaudio should handle this use case just fine. Jack is excellent for other reasons, but overkill for most of us.

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Oh god, rhythm game segments just might kill it for me. The rest of it looks quirky and wonderful.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80He was head of ID when they published Quake 3 on linux I think in a later interview when asked about Linux he said something along lines of we tried it once the market is not there.

Comments made all those years ago are hardly relevant today.

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Quoting: GuestEh? I said oversaturated with "non news", and that "this one" was a guide.
I counted 6 "non news" articles just on the first page.

Well GOL is a community site, not a news portal.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think John Carmack said something like that [External Link]

That's not what he's saying. He just basically advocates for what VP and Feral (not sure about Aspyr) are doing today.

VP's eON might be very much like Wine, but AFAIK Feral's IndirectX is a source level shim, and hardly in the same category. They do not wrap Windows binaries or do runtime API translation.

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Quoting: damarrin

you're movement speed

I'm movement speed? ;-)

Funny stuff, but use the spelling and grammar corrections thingamabob below the article.

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I played the hell out of Uridium on the C-64, and Hyper Sentinel does seem very similar. This style of arcade gaming just doesn't appeal to me anymore, but as an influence Uridium isn't the worst.

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Awesome to see Feral working on Mesa, and doubly awesome seeing them take an interest in Vulkan drivers. I guess they really are releasing their first Vulkan port soon.

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They certainly did get the NES aesthetic down pat. I was never a big fan of the platform, but I have to say that despite my expectations I really enjoyed most of the soundtrack, and the graphics did their job well.

Gameplay was in my view not as well executed, partially due to the aforementioned awkward controls and some parts that I found simply frustratingly difficult. For full disclosure, in the process of playing through the game with 100% items & map during the closed beta, I died well above 150 times. More than a few times due to fumbling with the weird up+attack spell mechanic, and maybe a handful of times trying to break the game and uncover bugs to actually do my job as a tester. I would have given up at a certain point if I had been playing purely for my own entertainment.

In fairness some of these features I find annoying come from the project's origins as a NES homebrew and the development team's faithfulness to the original platform. Being convincingly retro doesn't make it all better in my book though. Your mileage may vary. As a platformer it's not a bad one certainly, but don't expect it to be another modern metroidvania.

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Yeah the ending was a bit of a letdown, and the game was definitely too short, but all in all it was still a lot of fun. I just love word puzzles.

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